As hurricane Irma hits Florida, evacuees try to keep ahead of the storm
If all else fails, Russ Fisher jokes, his Audi A-4 is rumored to float.
The retired New Hampshire man says his mobile home park back in Crescent City, Fla., is 50 years old “and no hurricane has ever touched it.” But he and his bug-eyed pup, Betty Boop, decided to take off, racing in a tiny car ahead of a massive hurricane. Of his vehicle, he says, “One thing I’ve realized: That thing is not comfortable to sleep in.”
More than 6 million Floridians and Georgians have fled hurricane Irma, which began lashing the Florida Keys and southwest Florida Sunday, commencing what forecasters say could be a destructive march to Florida’s Big Bend and beyond. It may become the biggest mass evacuation in United
