Hurricane Irma raked across the Caribbean, leaving islands flooded, infrastructure destroyed and at least 10 dead as it makes its way toward a possible Sunday landfall at the tip of Florida

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The National Hurricane Center said Hurricane Irma is still packing sustained winds of 180 mph with one recorded gust at 220 mph, and early Thursday was about 110 miles to the north of the Dominican Republic moving to the west-northwest at 17 mph. The storm has already disrupted maritime trade routes from Florida and the US mainland to Caribbean islands, especially Puerto Rico. According to Puerto Rican officials, the island was spared a direct hit but the glancing blow it received was enough to cripple its power grid with the state utility saying outages could last as long as six months. In addition, Buckeye Partners had shut its Yabucoa oil terminal in Puerto Rico down ahead of Hurricane Irma and is preparing for the storm at two other marine terminals in Florida and the Bahamas. The Yabucoa terminal, which can store up to 4.6 million barrels of crude and refined products, has two docks and one deepwater berth. The company said, "Operations will resume as soon as weather conditions are safe to do so." The death toll is expected to rise as many islands have lost all power and infrastructure along with communications.