(MENAFN) Emergency management officials across South Florida hastened disaster preparations on Tuesday in anticipation of Hurricane Irma"s predicted weekend arrival on the U.S. mainland with possibly greater impose than Hurricane Harvey unleashed on Texas.
Gary Palmer, a 60-year-old deputy sheriff who visited a home supply store in Fort Lauderdale said, "Normally, people here don"t like to prepare" added, "But what happened in Texas opened up everybody"s eyes."
Authorities in the Florida Keys, starting at sunrise on Wednesday, the popular resort archipelago stretching from the southern tip of the state"s mainland peninsula, called for a mandatory evacuation of the islands" visitors.
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