According to the, Irma weakened to a 'post-tropical cyclone' status. Some residents donned waders to slog through thigh-high water and stuffed bags with all of the belongings they could carry after being forced to leave apartment buildings and mobile homes. Many were shaken by a storm they said was more powerful than they had ever seen.

Their stories provide a glimpse into the extensive reach of Irma's wrath: 'This is not safe' Aide Valadares packed up her belongings Monday after Hurricane Irma ripped the roof off of her apartment complex in Miami. She said water leaked into the top-floor apartments and the ceiling sagged in her one-bedroom unit below. The walls bowed and cracked in the living room, where she had hung prints of her favorite paintings from Colombian painter Fernando Botero and Spanish artist Diego de Velazquez. 'You come home. You see this. It's devastating,' she said.

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'The fire department came and said that structurally this is not safe,' she said. 'It will collapse.' Grateful but worried Gwen Bush watched from her window early Monday morning as the water rose around her central Florida home.

She had been sitting in darkness for hours as she listened to trees snap and water bubble. When it began to seep under her front door, she thought of the scenes of Hurricane Harvey in Texas that she had seen on TV. 'I was scared to death, I thought I was gonna die,' she said. 'I can't swim and the water kept rising; it was all the way up to my windows. I actually thought I was not going to live through this. I started praying.' Bush saw the National Guard and firefighters outside with boats and big trucks.

She grabbed a hurricane kit she'd packed the day before, pushed open the door, and waded through thigh-deep water to reach the rescuers, who took her to a shelter a few miles away. As day broke, she was grateful to be alive, but worried about the future. She had frantically tried to stack her belongings on top of beds and cabinets as the water rushed in, but she assumes she probably lost almost everything in her rented home. Temp file cleaner by oldtimer v3100 download windows 7.

Bush, 50, works as a security guard at a sports and music venue in Orlando, and only gets paid when she works. Concerts and shows were canceled in the days leading up to the storm, and she's not sure when she'll be able to get back to work. As the storm closed in, she spent the last $10 she had on food and water. European ship simulator pc game free download full version. Now she has nothing left but the red sweatsuit she escaped in.

Even her shoes were ruined by the water and muck. 'How are we gonna survive from here?' 'What's going to happen now? I just don't know.' Waiting on the bridge Robert Hickok, a 51-year-old commercial fisherman, spent hours stranded in his truck on a bridge amid fast-rising waters as he tried to leave Plantation Island. He decided to ride out the storm on the island, where he's lived for about four years, and sat tight through hours of rain and wind and flying debris. He was relieved when things became calm in the wee hours of Monday morning.

'It got real calm, you know,' he said in a phone interview. 'The rain let up and it quit blowing and I was still on the island and I thought it was all over.' But when he looked out the window 30 or 45 minutes later, the road was covered with water. As he watched, it began rising fast. He immediately got in his truck, but by the time he'd driven roughly a mile to the bridge, it was too late. Everglades City, on the other side of the bridge, was flooded and there was nowhere to go. 'Thank God the bridge was there,' he said.