As Hurricane Dorian kept up its relentless advance Monday, the storm weakened marginally. It has wrecked homes, tumbled cars, toppled power poles.
Millions of people along the southeastern coast of the United States on Monday braced for Hurricane Dorian as the massive storm cut a slow and devastating path across the northern Bahamas, slamming waist-high waves into kitchens and living rooms, tearing down power lines, and ripping the roofs off homes.
“On this track, the core of extremely dangerous Hurricane Dorian will continue to pound Grand Bahama Island through much of today and tonight,” the National Hurricane Center said in an A hurricane warning is in effect for Grand Bahama and Abaco islands in the northwestern Bahamas, as well as a 175-mile stretch of the central Florida coast. A hurricane watch also has been extended north that stretches up to Altamaha Sound in the middle of Georgia’s coast.
posted by ZNS Bahamas. “We have reports of casualties, we have reports of bodies being seen. We cannot confirm those reports until we go out and have a look for ourselves.”“In some areas, you cannot tell the difference as to the beginning of the street or where the ocean begins,” Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said Sunday at a news conference at the headquarters of the National Emergency Management Agency.
The Nassau Guardian later reported that the woman was Gertha Joseph, 34. In a telephone interview, she told the newspaper that her neighbor in Marsh Harbour, the Abacos’ largest town, helped put her son in a plastic carrier and escort her across the water to a safer building — the only one left standing on her street.
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