‘It looks like The Walking Dead’: Florida’s residents assess Irma’s damage

‘A day after the city of Naples was run over by the eye of Hurricane Irma, locals are assessing the damage left by the 141 mph winds and shaking their heads.
“It’s very eery,” says one resident, Paige Shirk. “It looks like it could be on the set of ‘The Walking Dead’.”
After Irma made landfall in the early hours of Sunday in the Florida Keys, it headed northwards and then struck land for a second time at Marco Island – a barrier community linked to this city of 20,000 by a causeway. Informed that they were in the centre of Irma’s path, city officials feared they were in for storm surges of up to 15ft (4.6m).
As it was, Naples, along with cities to the north such as St Petersburg and Tampa, escaped the devastation that many had feared. Yet, the destruction that Irma left in its wake is clear to see – downed power lines, trees uprooted and streets of suburban homes left under water. Light fixtures were torn from their housing. In the centre of this coastal community, debris and damaged trees are strewn across the roads.’
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