PokerStars and Bill Perkins have been forced to cancel StreamBoat 2, and evacuate Jaime and Matt Staples after Hurricane Irma menacingly made it way to the British Virgin Islands.

Not since 2005, when Hurricane Wilma came crashing into the United States killing 87 people in its wake, and creating 29.4 billion dollars in carnage, has a hurricane set a windy foot on American soil, and now, we are about to have two in a matter of weeks.

Americans still hadn’t come to terms with the 60+ dead in the Houston area following the cataclysmic attack on the region by Hurricane Harvey, before Hurricane Irma began whipping up the warm deep waters of the Atlantic.

The Category 5 hurricane (one of only 32 since 1924), has ripped through the Caribbean islands of Turks and Caicos, Cuba, Barbuda, and St Martin, killing at least ten people.