Dorian hits Bahamas as second-strongest Atlantic hurricane on record

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The hurricane crashes into the Bahamas as Category 5 storm on Sunday

Hurricane Dorian as seen from the International Space Station September 1 2019. Picture: NASA/REUTERS

Millions of people from Florida to North Carolina were bracing to see whether Dorian avoids a US landfall and veers north into the Atlantic Ocean. Even a glancing blow from one of the strongest storms ever to menace Florida could bring torrential rains and damaging winds, and"a Florida landfall is still a distinct possibility", the Miami-based NHC warned.

"The other day the prime minister came out and said everybody in Abaco should leave," Creenan said by phone."But there's no place to go." "This looks monstrous," Trump said during a briefing with the Federal Emergency Management Agency."This looks like it could be larger than all of them."

 

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