A dangerous Hurricane Dorian closed in on the northern Bahamas early Sunday, threatening to batter islands with 150 mph winds, pounding waves and torrential rain as people hunkered down in schools, churches and other shelters.
Millions from Florida to the Carolinas kept a wary eye on Dorian, meanwhile, amid indications it would veer sharply northeastward after passing the Bahamas and track up the Southeast seaboard. But authorities warned that even if its core did not make U.S. landfall and stayed offshore, the potent Category 4 storm would probably hammer coastal areas with powerful winds and heavy surf.
“We’re not taking no chances,” said Margaret Bassett, a ferry boat driver for Deep Water Cay resort. “They said evacuate, you have to evacuate.” “It’s almost as if you wait with anticipation, hoping that it’s never as bad as they say it will be. However, you prepare for the worst nonetheless,” he said.
The slow-crawling storm was predicted to take until Monday afternoon to pass over the Bahamas, and then turn sharply and skirt up the U.S. coast, staying just off Florida and Georgia on Tuesday and Wednesday and then buffeting South Carolina and North Carolina on Thursday.
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