Officials issued "travel not advised" alerts in several cities, due to debris blocking roads. The storms also knocked out cellular phone service in Fayette County.
Hurricane Irma, the most powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricane ever measured, has made landfall on the Caribbean islands of Barbuda and Antigua, and passing by just north of Puerto Rico. Following that, if the gargantuan storm continues on its current path, its core would hit the Florida coast by Sunday morning.