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    Hurricane Irma's calamitous sweep through Florida — and it's not over yet

    by By Patrick J. McDonnell, Laura King and Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times Sep 10, 2017 5 minutes

    NAPLES, Fla. - In a calamitous northward sweep from the Everglades to the Florida Panhandle, a weakening but still monstrously powerful Hurricane Irma battered a string of cities on the state's palm-fringed west coast Sunday before advancing toward Georgia and the Carolinas.

    Irma, downgraded Sunday afternoon to a Category 2 storm and expected to lose its hurricane status Monday, yielded watery misery and hours of scouring winds even in areas that avoided a direct hit, like Miami, and flattened buildings in the Florida Keys, where it first made landfall.

    So broad and punishing was the storm's reach that no corner of Florida, the country's fourth most-populous state, was unaffected.

    And Irma was an avatar of night terrors: As darkness fell, the storm was bearing down on the populous Tampa Bay region, rendered especially vulnerable to deadly storm

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