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Footage of aerial observations from September 6, 2017 https://earthclimate.eu/2017/09/07/irma-aerial-footage-barbuda-st-martin/
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00:03A devastating picture that has emerged from Barbuda.
00:07It has been surreal devastation.
00:10This has been the result of Hurricane Irma's fury,
00:14a powerful Atlantic storm, one of the most powerful on record,
00:19185 mile per hour winds, that has been the result.
00:27One word, epic.
00:29What we experience is like something you see in a horror movie.
00:33It's something that you watch on TV,
00:36but not something you expect to actually happen in reality.
00:40I mean, persons were literally running from house to house,
00:43and we had cars flying over our heads.
00:46We had containers, 40-foot containers, flying left and right.
00:51And the story that you're getting from most of the residents here
00:55is that the eye of the storm came just in time.
00:58Persons were literally tying themselves to their roofs with ropes
01:04to keep them down, holding on.
01:26So, let's go.
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02:14So, let's go.
02:20So
03:45For more information visit www.fema.gov
03:53so
04:36I'm going to show you what I'm going to do.
05:14So, let's go.

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