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Article snippet: Hurricane Irma, now 400 miles wide, continued its march of devastation on Monday morning, dumping rain across the width of Florida and lashing the state with powerful winds that downed power lines and left millions in the dark. As the storm moved inland, it was downgraded to Category 1. Losing some of its deadly power but retaining its vast size, the storm stretched from Florida’s West Coast to the Atlantic as it churned its way from the Florida Keys toward Tampa. The hurricane came ashore on the mainland as a Category 2 storm, flooded parts of downtown Miami and knocked over construction cranes there as winds exceeded 100 m.p.h. Here’s the latest: • The storm’s eye was near Tampa at 3 a.m. Forecasters expect it to stay inland over Florida as it heads into Georgia, before moving on to Alabama and Tennessee. • At least four people in Florida have been killed by the storm. It has left at least 27 people dead across the Caribbean. • More than 3.3 million customers are without power across Florida. The full extent of the damage is not yet known. Suddenly, the water went away. In the Bahamas, in Tampa Bay and in Naples, observers were shocked to see the waters that usually lap against the shore recede into the distance. On social media, people reacted with incredulity, noting that the water had disappeared where whitecaps were just hours before on Sunday in Tampa Bay. James Spann, an Alabama meteorologist and weather blogger, reacted sternly to a photograph on Twitter... Link to the full article to read more