Dorian down to 110mph and beginning to actually move out toward the Florida coast northeast from Grand Bahama.Doesn't look like the storm has an eye anymore but that may change as it gets back over warmer water.
Hurricane Watch - The Dorian Saga
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Dorian now 105mph and moving along the north Florida Coast toward Georgia's.
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Rather windy here in Volusia county. Sipping some coffee on the porch with the two furry 4 legged kids thinking that we really dodged that bullet here at home. Scary how bad the Bahamas were hit!
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Yeah, it looks like it lost enough energy over the Bahamas that the Gulf Stream is picking it up, and it will ride off-shore up the East Coast. Fingers crossed, that is.
Glad this is washing off speed, still a danger of flooding so stay safe all
Dorian off the Georgia coast and moving north. Still a Cat 2 with 105mph winds but the coasts of SC and NC will see alot of rainfall. I'll stop updating this when it gets past Mass.
That's horrible how it ravaged Bahamas
, Is Bahamas gonna be the new Atlantis..!?
It is horrible but at the same time it was always a possibility. It is a very real danger for at least half of the year every year. Same problem as those people who build their homes next to a volcano in Hawaii and wonder why the ground has opened up. So I sympathize but these people knew the risk and should have evacuated as the storm grew in strength.That's horrible how it ravaged Bahamas
Curious response. Where could they have evacuated to?
well, presumably, 'somewhere not in the path of a hurricane' would be the ideal location :p
that would require a lot of transport on standby. The problem with the Bahamas is that most of it was formed from Coral jutting out of the water, so it's not exactly brimming with points very high above sea water.
That is true. And there's another, more human created issue. They are not part of the USA like Hawaii, so even if they had the money to come here, they would still need a visa.
That is the one part of those kind of natural disaster I don't get, to often people are far to ignorant with the "it don't happen to me, I can ride it out here".
To see people make this choices is the one thing I never understand, specially if there is kids and family involved.
Instead having some self preservation if worst happen, you are always better of think safe and get out of there in time.
Specially when you hear about oncoming danger like hurricanes.
It is still is very horrible and heartbreaking to see and hear those things happen.
Florida because its the closest.
As for the Visa issue, temp VISA. These islands usually have a good relationship with the US gov seeing how close they are to the US.
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Yes, the Bahama's have a good relationship with the US. Visa please. US and Canadian citizens do not need a passport to go there, but you do to come back if your route goes through the US - and citizens of the Bahamas need a passport and visa to come to the US, or a passport and a visa waiver which are hard to get.
Plus, passenger aircraft do not normally fly through thunderstorms, and this was a hurricane (which ships don't voluntarily sail through either). They also had over 50,000 people in harm's way, and they were safer where they were than they would have been attempting to get to the US even by boat. So I don't know quite how they were expected to get those people here, where they would stay once here, and how they would be safer considering where we thought that storm was going until the last minute.
That's what you do in a situation like that. Stay where you are safest. They lost 20, maybe more, but evacuating might have cost a lot more than that. No ship or aircraft capable of carrying the hundreds and thousands of passengers is designed to be safer than stationary land in a hurricane situation. There are some military edge cases, but that's what they are - edge cases, not the norm.
That's why you evacuate BEFORE the storm arrives. Gotta be pro-active, not re-active.
There remains a possibility that Dorian may go ashore for a period of time in NC before it heads back out to sea.
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