The storm could still run ashore over Florida.įorecasters continued to warn that hurricane conditions were expected across Florida and the southeastern coast of the United States. He posted one message on Twitter in which one of his cousins described finding a mother, father and son curled up together, dead. State Representative Shevrin Jones of Florida, whose district includes portions of Broward County, has been receiving updates from relatives in the Bahamas. Less than 10 percent are elderly.Ībaco is home to enclaves of vulnerable Haitian migrants, he said.ĭozens of worried families posted pleas for information about their loved ones on social media, and videos showed water rising around houses and devastated scenes of decimated homes, with roofs sheared from buildings and insulation strewn about the floor. Ronald Jackson, the executive director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency, said that children made up about 15 percent of the islands’ population. The islands’ water systems were expected to be compromised, so aid workers planned to send pumps and a two-week supply of food because food warehouses were most likely flooded.
Louby Georges, the director of international affairs for Human Rights Bahamas, said at least one friend had run out of drinking water and others had left tearful voice messages for loved ones. “Tonight and tomorrow morning, we’ll start to see the pull to the north that we’ve all been anxiously awaiting, because we really need to get this thing off of the Bahamas and moving northward,” Ken Graham, the director of the National Hurricane Center, said in a Facebook video on Monday. The storm was expected to continue drubbing the islands - which have a combined population of about 77,000, the majority of whom live on Grand Bahama - through Tuesday, forecasters said, before resuming its course toward the Atlantic coast and turning up the coast. to 7 p.m, and sat about 105 miles off the coast of Florida. The hurricane moved just 14 miles from 8 a.m. After moving toward the islands over the weekend, it came to a halt on Monday evening above them. on Tuesday that the hurricane was stationary, even as its winds swirled at 120 m.p.h. Minnis added.īecause of the storm’s stubborn refusal to move past the Bahamas, officials with the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency, a relief group based in Barbados, may not be able to visit the islands until Wednesday afternoon.įorecasters said at 2 a.m. The storm slowed almost to a standstill for more than a day, leaving at least five people dead.ĭorian was also blamed for one death in Puerto Rico at the start of its path through the Caribbean.“Downtown Grand Bahama is under three feet of water, including the ground floor of its hospital and the prime minister’s office,” Mr. Several large airports announced closings, and hundreds of flights were canceled.ĭorian unleashed massive flooding across the Bahamas, pummeling the islands with so much wind and water that authorities urged people to find floatation devices and grab hammers to break out of their attics if necessary. The forecast instead showed North Carolina in the crosshairs toward the end of the week.Īs Labor Day weekend drew to a close, over 2 million people in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina were warned to evacuate for fear Dorian could bring life-threatening storm-surge flooding even if the hurricane's center stayed offshore, as forecast. Residents in Southeast brace for impact of Hurricane DorianĭELRAY BEACH, Florida (WABC) - After battering the Bahamas, Hurricane Dorian began to pull away on Tuesday and make its way up the Southeast coast of the US, where residents were bracing for its impact.ĭorian was on track to approach the Florida coast, but the threat to the state eased significantly, with forecasters not expecting a direct hit after all.
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