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Article snippet: Cars were tossed in the air. Roofs were ripped off houses as families sheltered inside. And at least seven people were killed as Hurricane Irma battered the eastern Caribbean. Here is what the destruction looked like on some of the islands directly in the storm’s path. Almost all of the island of St. Martin was destroyed, according to Daniel Gibbs, the president of the country’s French territorial council. “There are shipwrecks everywhere, destroyed houses everywhere, torn off roofs everywhere,” Mr. Gibbs told Radio Caraïbes International. “It’s just unbelievable, it’s indescribable.” Eze Egwuatu, a California resident who was visiting the island when the hurricane struck Wednesday, sheltered at the home where he and a friend were staying on the Dutch side of the island. The roof was ripped off the building as the pair huddled in a windowless room. “The sound, it’s something I’ll never forget,” Mr. Egwuatu said. “It was like chaos outside, man. You could just hear things breaking.” After the storm, he posted videos of the “utter destruction” he saw, including cars tossed off the road and into gardens. “They got picked up and flipped over, most of them were hit by debris, it was insane,” Mr. Egwuatu said. The prime minister of France, Edouard Philippe, said on Thursday that four people were confirmed killed on St. Martin, revising down an earlier count of eight deaths by local rescue officials. Mr. Philippe said around 50 people were injured, including two serious... Link to the full article to read more