As Hurricane Irma, now a tropical storm, moves out of Florida, images of the destruction left behind are beginning to appear. While the enormous storm caused widespread damage and flooding, and left more than 10 million without power, most reports indicate that most of Florida appears to have dodged a worst-case-scenario. Residents are now beginning to return to assess the damage, and begin recovery and rebuilding efforts.
Photos of the Damage Left by Hurricane Irma in Florida
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Larry Dimas walks around his destroyed trailer, which he rents out to others, in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, in Immokalee, Florida, on September 11, 2017. His tenants evacuated and nobody was inside when it was destroyed. #
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Laura Raymond walks down the stairs with a flashlight while leaving her mother-in-law's fourth floor apartment, where she rode out Hurricane Irma with her family, to return to their low-lying home a mile away in Marco Island, Florida, on September 11, 2017. #
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Boats sit on the ground in the north Florida panhandle community of Shell Point Beach as Hurricane Irma pulls the water out on September 11, 2017, in Crawfordville, Florida. #
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The Tampa skyline is seen in the background as local residents (from left) Rony Ordonez, Jean Dejesus, and Henry Gallego take photographs after walking into Hillsborough Bay ahead of Hurricane Irma in Tampa, on September 10, 2017. #
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Building owner Catharine Taylor Woods, front, and Jessica Newman, of the City of Wauchula, clean up broken glass after an awning blew off in Hurricane Irma and broke several windows on September 11, 2017. #
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Kelly McClenthen returns to see the flood damage to her home with her boyfriend Daniel Harrison in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma in Bonita Springs, Florida, on September 11, 2017. #
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Two people pass a man in a canoe as they wade through the flooded streets of the San Marco historic district of Jacksonville, Florida, on September 11, 2017, after a storm surge from Hurricane Irma left the area flooded. #
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Philippa Regueira returns home through a street littered with downed trees and branches after seeking shelter in a friend's home as Hurricane Irma passed through, on September 11, 2017, in Miami, Florida. #
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