Tuesday, September 3, 2019
A rescue missions on Abaco Island in the Bahamas was conducted by the United States Coast Guard and the nation’s prime minister announced that five people had died in a ‘historic tragedy’.
On Tuesday night the Category 4 storm is expected to move ‘dangerously close’ to Florida after coming to a standstill in the Bahamas.Since Monday Hurricane Dorian continued its unrelenting assault on the Grand Bahamas and Abaco Islands which led to extreme destruction. The storm surges went up from 12 to 18 feet above the normal tide levels.
By late Monday, Prime Minister Hubert Minnis of the Bahamas said that the Royal Bahamas police force had confirmed the deaths, however the details of how the people died were not available immediately.
Mr. Minnis said that they were in the midst of the historic tragedy and their focus was on the search, rescue and recovery. He asked for the prayers for those in affected areas and for their first res ponders.
The videos of the vast destruction in the country were heartbreaking according to Mr. Minnis. Many homes, businesses and other buildings have been completed or partially destroyed.
Downtown Grand Bahama was under three feet of water which included the ground floor of its hospital and the prime minister’s office.
Officials with the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency which is a relief group based in Barbados said that because of the storm’s stubborn refusal to move past the Bahamas they may not be able to visit the islands until Wednesday afternoon.
On Monday at about 7 p.m. the forecasters said that the hurricane was stationary, its winds swirled at 145 m.p.h and gusts reached at 179 m.p.h. It moved towards the islands over the weekend and came to a stop on Monday evening above them.
From 8 a.m . to 7 p.m the hurricane moved just 14 miles and sat 105 miles off the coast of Florida.
The island has a combined population of about 77,000 where the majority lived on the Grand Bahama and the storm kept drubbing the islands through Monday night till it started to move its course toward the Atlantic coast and turn it up.
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