Hurricane Dorian hits Bahamas as Category 5 storm via ReutersTV
TITUSVILLE, Fla. - Hurricane Dorian crashed into the Bahamas on Sunday as the second strongest Atlantic storm on record and inched closer to the United States, with parts of Florida evacuating and Georgia and the Carolinas bracing for wind and flooding.
Residents on Abaco posted video on social media showing floodwaters halfway up the sides of single-family homes with parts of the roofs torn off. Car alarms blared across the island, which was littered with twisted metal and splintered wood. Forecasters predicted up to 30 inches of rain and 23-foot storm surges from the Category 5 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale.
“This will put us to a test that we’ve never confronted before,” he said. “This is probably the most sad and worst day of my life to address the Bahamian people. I just want to say as a physician I’ve been trained to withstand many things, but never anything like this.” South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster declared a state of emergency for his state on Sunday in anticipation of the hurricane.
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