Hurricane Isaias heading for Florida after battering Bahamas with 85mph winds

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Officials in Miami are closing beaches, marinas and parks ahead of the storm's arrival.

He said:"Our sites, because they're outdoors with tents, if it were to get 40-, 50-mile-per-hour winds, it would just collapse."

Isaias had maximum sustained winds of 85mph early Saturday and some strengthening was possible later on Saturday, the US National Hurricane Centre in Miami said.Image:Trevor Basden, director of the Bahamas meteorology department, told people to"continue to hunker down". Paula Miller, Mercy Corps director for the Bahamas, said that while the islands can normally withstand strong hurricanes, some have been destabilised by theShe said:"With everything not quite shored up, property not secured, even a Category 1 will be enough to set them back."

He said supermarkets, pharmacies, gas stations and hardware stores would be open as long as weather permitted.While still a tropical storm, Isaias toppled trees on Thursday, destroyed crops and caused widespread flooding and small landslides in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, where hundreds of thousands of people were left without power and water.

 

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