After a frantic week in preparation for Hurricane Dorian, residents of Fort Pier...
- After a frantic week in preparation for Hurricane Dorian, residents of Fort Pierce, Florida breathed a bit easier on Saturday when forecasters said the state’s central Atlantic Coast may dodge a direct hit from the monster storm.
With meteorologists warning that a similar scenario was likely with Dorian, Fort Pierce residents spent recent days boarding up buildings and depleting stores of generators, food and water. But Saturday’s forecast predicting that Dorian might veer north and offshore came as a welcome surprise. By Saturday, Dorian was churning through the Atlantic as a menacing Category 4 storm with sustained winds of 150 miles per hour.
Rick Modine, a 60-year-old whose family traces its roots in Fort Pierce back to the 1800s, did not want to take any chances. He spent much of last week moving his cattle to higher ground at a ranch just west of the city, making sure the cows were safe before tending to his house. “I will never forget my son, Kori, yelling on the phone the morning after Frances passed. ‘It’s gone. It’s gone. The marina is gone,’” said Benton, who is 62, in a phone interview.“I’ve never seen people take a storm as seriously as they have taken this one,” said Linda Nunn, 58, a Fort Pierce native. “People went nuts as soon as they heard it might be Cat 4. You don’t usually see that five or six days before the storm is supposed to hit.
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