Hurricane Irma Leaves Devastation Of 'Epic Proportions' In Caribbean
Barbuda, Anguilla, St. Martin and the British and U.S. Virgin Islands bore the brunt of the Category 5 monster that could hit Florida within days.
Updated at 3:10 p.m. ET
A string of tiny Caribbean islands have been left stunned and devastated by the destructive force of Hurricane Irma, one of the strongest storms ever to hit the region. Some islands appear to have been spared, but others suffered loss of life and damage on a near-apocalyptic scale.
Antigua and Barbuda
In Barbuda, communications were severed as Irma made landfall just before midnight on Tuesday. Antigua, 25 miles to the south, dodged the full force of the storm, prompting Prime Minister Gaston Browne at first to declare it a miracle that his nation had been spared.
But as it turned out, Browne had spoken too soon. It was only
