Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., told CBS Sunday he was staying at his home in Florida during Hurricane Irma.
“I am currently in my home here in west Miami and it is a nasty, brutal storm,” Rubio said on “Face the Nation” before Irma made landfall in Key West. “And we are not even in the eye of the storm. We are going to get the sustained tropical storm winds, we are getting the gusts from hurricanes, tornado threats. It is going to be exponentially worse everywhere from you know up the west coast of Florida.”
The hurricane hit South Florida with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph according to the National Hurricane Center.
Irma was making landfall in Southwest Florida around 6 p.m. Sunday, bearing down on Naples with high winds and rain and a storm surge of 9 to 15 feet above ground level as a Category 2 hurricane. But people living in the southwest may not have had enough time to evacuate, said Rubio, “because the warnings really only started to be amplified Friday night for them.”
“There’s no safe place to be,” he said.
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