How emergency officials use a restaurant chain to tell how bad a storm is"We don't want people thinking we've forgotten them. ... We know what your conditions are," Tammy Mitchell of the Bahamas' National Emergency Management Agency told ZNS Bahamas radio station.
Practically parking over a portion of the Bahamas for a day and a half, Dorian pounded the northern Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama with winds up to 300km/h and torrential rain before finally moving into open waters Tuesday on a course for Florida. Its winds were down to a still-dangerous 175km/h late Tuesday, making it a Category 2 storm.
"Don't tough it out. Get out," said U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency official Carlos Castillo. Abaco and Grand Bahama islands, with a combined population of about 70,000, are known for their marinas, golf courses and all-inclusive resorts. To the south, the Bahamas' most populous island, New Providence, which includes the capital city of Nassau and has over a quarter-million people, had little damage.
The coastline from north of West Palm Beach, Florida, through Georgia was expected to get 3 to 6 inches of rain, with 9 inches in places, while the Carolinas could get 5 to 10 inches and 15 in spots, the National Hurricane Centre said.
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