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Verb. To reduce to one-tenth: to destroy or remove nine-tenths of anything.
This post has some context in reality as many estimates show that Hurricane Irma decimated the island of Barbuda. Over 90% of the buildings in the sole Barbudan town of Codrington were reported destroyed, with some reports stating as high as 95%. Hurricane Jose is now bearing down on the island and it’s similarly-devastated neighbors.
Hurricane Irma is now heading towards Florida.
Latest computer runs showing essentially all of Florida in the path of #Irma. This is...no words. pic.twitter.com/02hhBVkIoh
— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) September 7, 2017