BREAKING: Georgia's governor orders mandatory evacuation of state's coast starting at midday Monday ahead of Dorian.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has ordered a mandatory evacuation of the state’s Atlantic coast starting at midday Monday.
Before the evacuations ahead of Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Irma in 2017, coastal residents had not been ordered to flee a storm since Hurricane Floyd in 1999. That hurricane ended up missing the state before making landfall in North Carolina.Hurricane Dorian is pounding Great Abaco and Grand Bahama islands in the archipelago east of South Florida.
Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a Sunday evening briefing that the light traffic might also be in part due to many residents being seasonal and living elsewhere or already having departed on Labor Day trips. He says remaining residents need to closely monitor forecasts and announcements.More than 600 Labor Day flights in the U.S. have been canceled as of Sunday afternoon, many of them in Florida as Hurricane Dorian barrels toward the state’s coast.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Dorian remains a life-threatening Category 5 storm with 185 mph winds. Gusts are even higher, and at 7 p.m. EDT Sunday, Dorian’s well-defined eye was located about 70 miles east of Freeport, Grand Bahama Island. Authorities say the order covers approximately 830,000 people, many of whom will be evacuating for the fourth time in four years.
The Category 5 hurricane battering parts of the Bahamas with nearly unprecedented strength Sunday. The 185 mph winds make it the second-strongest storm in the Atlantic Ocean since 1950.South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster says it is too early to decide whether to order evacuations along the state’s coast because of Hurricane Dorian.
According to the Nassau Guardian, Minnis is calling it “probably the most sad and worst day of my life to address the Bahamian people.”The U.S. National Hurricane Center says a hurricane warning has been issued for a stretch of Florida’s east coast as powerful Hurricane Dorian approaches. Joy Jibrilu, director general of the Bahamas’ Ministry of Tourism & Aviation, has told reporters there is a huge amount of damage to property and infrastructure from the hurricane crossing the northwest part of the island archipelago. She adds “It’s devastating” but cautions that so far there is “luckily no loss of life reported.”
North Carolina elections officials are encouraging voters in some pending congressional races to cast ballots during an early-voting period to avoid possible disruptions from Hurricane Dorian. Speaking in Washington at the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, where he was updated on the storm’s path, Trump said the slow-moving hurricane is one of the largest to ever materialize. He says the expectation is that a large part of the Eastern seaboard will be affected, “some of it very, very severely.”
At 3 p.m. EDT Sunday, Dorian had top sustained winds of 185 mph with gusts topping 220 mph . The Miami-based hurricane center says it expects storm surge of 18 to 23 feet above normal in the hardest-hit areas. It says there also will be even higher battering waves. The storm’s center is about 185 miles east of West Palm Beach, Florida. A Hurricane watch is in effect for Florida from the north of Deerfield Beach to the Volusia-Brevard county line. Hurricane conditions are possible within the watch area by late Monday or early Tuesday.Extremely powerful, life-threatening Hurricane Dorian has reached the Bahamas. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Sunday that Dorian made landfall in Elbow Cay at 12:40 p.m. EDT.
The airport originally had planned to stop commercial flights at 2 a .m. Monday for passenger safety and to give the airport’s 25,000 workers enough time to secure their homes and be with their families.The National Hurricane Center says the northwest Bahamas is facing its strongest hurricane in modern times as Hurricane Dorian’s maximum sustained winds reach a monstrous 180 mph .
The hurricane was expected to move toward the Florida east coast late Monday through Tuesday. The Hurricane Center also issued a hurricane watch and storm surge watch for the east coast of Florida from north of Deerfield Beach to the line between Volusia and Brevard counties.A coastal Florida county is ordering an evacuation of barrier islands, mobile homes and areas that are prone to flood because of Hurricane Dorian.
The Hurricane Center is warning of potentially devastating wind gusts of more than 200 mph and destructive waves of up to 20 feet . Graham says the storm stalling also complicates the U.S. forecast. The time allows small changes in the winds that steer the storm, which means Dorian can still make landfall anywhere from Florida to North Carolina during the next five days.Weather forecasters say Hurricane Dorian has intensified to a Category 5 storm, capable of inflicting catastrophic levels of destruction.
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