Trump's $200million Mar-a-Lago estate is evacuated as Irma thunders towards Florida - after trampling his $17million mansion on St Martin
Donald Trump's 'winter White House' Mar-a-Lago is being evacuated as Hurricane Irma rampages towards the Florida coast
Donald Trump's $200million 'winter White House' Mar-a-Lago is being evacuated as Hurricane Irma rampages towards the Florida coast after causing 'serious damage' to his mansion on St Martin.
Guests at the 62,500-square foot golf course and resort are being told to leave, along with the rest of Palm Beach, as winds of 175mph make their way towards the US east coast.
And Hurricane Irma is likely to test a longtime boast from Mar-a-Lago staff that it withstand any storm.
But, if history is any guide, the smart money this weekend will be on the house.
The storm brought devastation to St. Martin earlier this week – leveling the Caribbean island's strongest buildings and leaving 'rustic' structures like Trump's $17million mansion in grave danger.
'We know that the four most solid buildings on the island have been destroyed, which means that more rustic structures have probably been completely or partially destroyed,' said French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb.
Eight people have been reported dead on the island after it took a direct hit from Irma.
Ninety-five per cent of the French side of the island has been destroyed, a local official, said, with enormous damage to the side administered by the Dutch government.
Strikes by four major hurricanes have done little damage to Mar-a-Lago in the 90 years since cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and her second husband, financier E.F. Hutton, built the 126-room, mansion.
It cost them $5 million - the equivalent of almost $70 million today.
The 3-acre (1.2 hectare) Palm Beach estate is quite exposed to tropical weather, bisecting a narrow barrier island, flanked by the Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean. But the mansion's walls are 3-feet (1 meter) thick, anchored by steel and concrete beams embedded into coral rock.
'We know that the four most solid buildings on the island have been destroyed, which means that more rustic structures have probably been completely or partially destroyed,' said French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb.
Eight people have been reported dead on the island after it took a direct hit from Irma.
Ninety-five per cent of the French side of the island has been destroyed, a local official, said, with enormous damage to the side administered by the Dutch government.
Strikes by four major hurricanes have done little damage to Mar-a-Lago in the 90 years since cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and her second husband, financier E.F. Hutton, built the 126-room, mansion.
It cost them $5 million - the equivalent of almost $70 million today.
The 3-acre (1.2 hectare) Palm Beach estate is quite exposed to tropical weather, bisecting a narrow barrier island, flanked by the Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean. But the mansion's walls are 3-feet (1 meter) thick, anchored by steel and concrete beams embedded into coral rock.
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