Hurricane Irma left a wake of damage on the northern Coast of the Dominican Republic as the “extremely dangerous” storm swept through the Caribbean with winds measuring 175 mph .
The storm passed just to the north of the Hispaniola island shared by Dominican Republic and Haiti, causing some damage to roofs and flooding as it approached the impoverished Haitian side of the Island, which is particularly vulnerable to hurricanes and rain, although it was not forecast to make landfall.
Authorities in the Dominican Republic ordered evacuations in towns along the northern Atlantic coast such as Cabarete, a thriving tourist spot where trees were brought down by high winds but no severe damage was reported.
