MIAMI/FORT MYERS, Fla.—Packing 130-mph winds, Hurricane Irma knocked out electricity to more than 2 million Florida homes and businesses on Sunday and threatened the state’s Gulf Coast with potentially catastrophic flooding.
The storm, one of the most powerful ever recorded in the Atlantic, passed over the Florida Keys archipelago off the state’s southern tip and was on a course for the state’s western coast, which was expecting storm surges - water driven ashore by the winds - of up to 15 feet, according to the National Hurricane Center.
