• Dorian to Florida, the reclassified category 4 hurricane. Trump: "It will be devastating"
  • Florida is preparing for the arrival of hurricane Dorian. Trump: "Now he looks like a monster"
  • The rising fury of hurricane Dorian scares Florida

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01 September 2019

Immense waves that break violently on the ground, sending huge clouds of spray along the coast, inhabitants asking for help, skipping roofs: the conditions on the Abaco islands, in the Bahamas are "catastrophic", hit with an unprecedented force by the hurricane Dorian , now classified in category 5 with winds up to 280 km / h, judging from the videos shown by various media.

A local radio reported that people were asking for help after the winds blew the roofs at Marsh Harbor, a commercial center on the Abacos Islands. The fact is that many islanders have preferred to face the hurricane rather than evacuate following the indications of the local government.

In Guana Cay, for example, about 150 people would remain to face the storm's fury, while in Grand Bahama - one of the northernmost islands of the archipelago, located just 90 km off the coast of Florida - thousands are evacuated before arrival of the storm: here is the next stage of the hurricane, expected between tonight and tomorrow.



Trump's alarm
"Dorian seems to be one of the biggest hurricanes ever," he says, "very powerful," says Donald Trump, inviting residents of Florida, North and South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama with the utmost caution and following the orders of the authorities.

"Seek shelter immediately" is the appeal launched by the National Hurricane Center to residents of the Bahamas, dealing with the strongest hurricane that has ever reached the islands and which - they warn - could cause devastating, "catastrophic" damage to the rains torrential and flooding that it will bring with it. What worries is the slow pace with which Dorian moves, which makes him even more dangerous because he could unload his fury on the Bahamas for at least 24 hours. Churches and schools have been used as shelters and host thousands of residents. The holiday tourists of the end of August also found shelter, forced to leave the resorts, now all closed.

Via tourists and Italian residents
Italian citizens have left Grand Bahama, while in Florida they work to keep the Italian community on alert. Cristiano Musillo, Consul General in Miami, made the point at Adnkronos about the work being carried out in these hours: "For the past 4 days we have activated in agreement with the Embassy in Washington and with the Farnesina crisis unit a local emergency cell, reachable both by e-mail and telephone. We received a hundred or so phone calls from compatriots. We have 45,000 Italians residing in the southeast of the USA, 80% in Florida. We have 260,000 Italians who visit the state every year ", he says. . At this time, therefore, it can be assumed that there are "80,000 Italians in southeastern Florida". "The Nassau airport is operational, the Freeport airport is closed," adds Musillo.

Alert in Florida
The same American president, Donald Trump, yesterday, in a tweet from the golf course in Virginia, pointed out that "South Carolina could be hit much stronger than initially thought, so too Georgia and North Carolina. It is moving and is very difficult to predict, except for the fact that it is the largest and strongest we have seen in decades. Stay safe! ", the White House tenant concluded.