A family in Grand Bahama documents trying to escape their flooded home as the eye of Hurricane Dorian was over the island early Monday morning.
As morning broke in the Bahamas on Monday, residents who rode out Hurricane Dorian as a Category 5 storm described buzz-saw-like winds that splintered homes, flooded streets and left them terrified for their lives.
"I think when the eye wall hit, we had 200-plus mile per hour winds that ripped everybody's roofs and destroyed everybody's structure and houses," Sawyer told ABC News."Probably one of the most terrifying things that ever happened. The windows were caving. The doors were caving in. I honestly thought that our roof was going to be ripped off as well."
"You could hear the wind, you could hear bits and pieces of debris and large objects hitting the building, including a boat," Moore said. A yacht hit our building and right now is resting up against the three-story condo complex where we have been staying.""Please someone, please come help us": Bahamas residents survey devastated apartment building after Hurricane Dorian hit Abaco Islands. https://t.co/62Zy3sGveh pic.twitter.
The latest path shows Dorian nearing Florida by Cape Canaveral on Tuesday night into Wednesday morning as a Category 3 hurricane. The governor said 72 nursing homes and assisted living centers along the coast have been evacuated and some Florida hospitals were following suit.
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