Hurricane Nicole plowed through the Bahamas as it was upgraded from a tropical storm, lashing the West Indies archipelago nation with howling winds and raging surf while churning ever closer to Florida’s Atlantic shoreline. | Reuters
Chitwood said “dozens upon dozens” of oceanside buildings, including high-rise condominiums, were left structurally unsafe in Volusia County after Florida’s last major storm, Hurricane Ian, struck six weeks ago, with some now “in imminent danger of collapsing” when Nicole strikes.
Grand Bahama, Bimini and the Berry Islands in the northwest corner of the island nation remained under a hurricane warning. The Bahamas Department of Meteorology reported a nearly 4-foot storm surge north of the town of Treasure Cay on Abaco. Waves flooded at least one road in Nassau, the capital, officials said.The storm’s center was expected to pass well north of Miami, Florida’s most populous city. But Governor Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency for 45 counties, and a hurricane warning remain posted for a 240-mile expanse of Florida’s Atlantic seaboard from Boca Raton north to around Flagler Beach.
“We have had a lot of flooding within the last couple of storms,” said Leanne Hansard, 53, a Daytona Beach resident who was boarding windows to her family’s insurance office. “Florida is surrounded by water on all sides, so eventually you’re going to have water.”
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