Hurricane Dorian, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record, showed some signs of weakening early on Tuesday as it remained stalled ...
MARSH HARBOUR, Bahamas: Hurricane Dorian, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record, showed some signs of weakening early on Tuesday as it remained stalled over Grand Bahama Island, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said.in the Abaco Islands in the northern Bahamas and inundating homes with floodwater ahead of its expected advance on the .. coast, where more than a million people have been ordered evacuated.
He added that the US Coast Guard was on the ground in Abaco and had rescued a number of injured individuals. Critically injured people were being taken to hospitals on New Providence, the country's most populous island.As many as 13,000 homes in the Bahamas may have been destroyed or severely damaged, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said.
Forecasters have told Floridians not to become complacent, as the storm is now predicted to stay off the coast."All it has to do is jog a little bit west and you have a full-on hurricane rolling through Florida," he said."No one is out of the woods."Nine counties in Florida have issued mandatory evacuations.
Orlando International Airport, one of the largest in the state, planned to cease commercial operations at 2am on Tuesday because of the storm, it said in a statement.South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster ordered mandatory evacuations for parts of eight coastal counties effective at noon on Monday. More than 830,000 people were under evacuation orders in Charleston and other coastal communities in the state, emergency management officials announced.
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