Scramble to flee Irma underscores rich, poor divide
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Hotel dishwasher Wilman Hernandez waited with this wife and young son at a Miami Beach bus stop, desperately looking for a way to get to a shelter where they could ride out Hurricane Irma.
Hernandez fears the storm will destroy their first-floor apartment. With no car to join the bumper-to-bumper traffic heading north and no supplies other than water, their options, like those of many low-income Florida residents, were limited.
“I have been calling 311 to
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