The first footage of Hurricane Irma making landfall on the Caribbean islands on Wednesday shows the sheer extent of the damage caused. The category 5 storm has already hit Barbuda, Saint Barthelemy and Saint Martin.

Phillipsburg A post shared by KEEP SXM CLEAN (@keepsxmclean) on Sep 6, 2017 at 4:02am PDT

May be my last tweet as power out and noise now apocalyptic. This is like a movie I never want to see. #Irma2017#StMaarten 🤞🤞 — alex woolfall (@woolfallalex) September 6, 2017

Described as the most powerful storm recorded over the Atlantic Ocean, the French weather office reported winds of 150mph (244kph) on St Barts before its weather-monitoring equipment was destroyed by the hurricane.

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Irma is now headed to Anguilla Island, the British Virgin Islands and east Puerto Rico. It’s expected to then reach Haiti and Florida.

Live from Hurricane Irma's eye #hurricaneirma A post shared by Denise Ormaechea (@deniseorm) on Sep 6, 2017 at 4:37am PDT

A state of emergency has been declared in Florida, with Governor Rick Scott saying Irma posed “a severe threat to the entire state.”

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Video footage shared on social media captures Irma’s strength and the extent of the damage it has already waged in the Caribbean.