Monday, September 2, 2019

Hurricane Dorian causes 'extreme destruction' and leaves 'bodies floating in the Bahamas' as second strongest storm in HISTORY crawls across the islands with 225mph gusts - as storm surges hit the Florida coast where millions have been ordered to evacuate






  • Hurricane Dorian stalled over the Bahamas today, downgrading from a Category 5 to a Category 4
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  • The vicious storm is moving westwards at just 1mph and is battering the Bahamas with winds over 150mph 
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  • On Sunday into Monday there were gusts of up to 225mph and up to 30 inches of rain in the Bahamas
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  • Monday morning Bahamian officials confirmed reports of causalities but have not released an official count
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  • An eight-year-old boy is believed to have drowned amid reports of 'bodies being seen'
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  • Hundreds of thousands of people are being evacuated on the U.S. coast although the storm is not currently expected to hit land there  
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  • Video posted to social media by residents of Abaco in the Bahamas shows homes missing parts of their roofs, utility lines down and cars overturned
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  • 'You cannot tell the difference as to the beginning of the street versus where the ocean begins,' Bahamanian Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said  
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  • Monday afternoon storm is located 30 miles northeast of Freeport, 110miles east of West Palm Beach, Florida
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  • Dorian is will get 'dangerously' close to South Florida tonight as its winds and surges are reaching coast 
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