- America: Dorian will arrive as a hurricane of force 5 in the Bahamas with winds of up to 260 kilometers per hour
- Hurricane Dorian.Change trajectory while Trump warns that he is one of the worst "in decades"
Hurricane Dorian has brought the devastation to the Abaco Islands on Sunday, a small group of keys to the northwest of the Atlantic archipelago of the Bahamas with a population close to 15,000 inhabitants, many of whom had left the area before the arrival of the cyclone .
The Government of the Bahamas has not yet offered a balance of the hurricane's passage through the region when heading towards Grand Bahama, the other point of the archipelago where it is expected to also cause serious damage, although the videos that appear on social networks show floods of proportions unknown in these latitudes.
The videos reveal authentic rivers in the Abaco Islands, part of whose surface was completely flooded by the monumental rains that Hurricane Dorian has brought, according to local authorities the most catastrophic of which there is evidence.
Hurricane Dorian, category 5, made landfall this Sunday in Elbow Cay, in the Abaco Islands of the Atlantic archipelago, leaving destruction in its wake with its strong winds and rain.
The rains caused floods of water that almost covered the houses, many with roofs destroyed by the force of maximum sustained winds of 295 kilometers per hour.
Other television images show cars dumped on roads alongside houses punished by torrential rains and hurricane winds.
In addition, people who try to reach the upper parts of the houses are appreciated while the water level rises, which turned part of the Abaco Islands into rivers.
The Prime Minister of the Bahamas, Hubert Minnis, had asked the people of the northwest of the archipelago on Saturday, especially residents of the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama, to leave the area if they did not have a safe place to resist the passage of the hurricane .
Many people, however, resisted leaving their homes and were surprised by monumental floods.
The Bahamas authorities have not yet given official information of the infrastructure and person damage, as the cyclone is still in the area and is not expected to leave the region on its way to the east coast of the United States until Monday.
The prime minister, after meeting with the management of the National Emergency Management Agency of the Bahamas (NEMA), said it is the most destructive cyclone that the Atlantic archipelago has faced in its history .
The eye of Category 5 Dorian Hurricane, the maximum on the Saffir Simpson scale, made landfall at 12.40 local time (16.40 GMT) at Elbow Cay, with maximum sustained winds of 295 kilometers per hour, the National Hurricane Center reported ( CNH) from the United States.
Trump: "We do not know what is coming"
"We do not know what is coming to us," US President Donald Trump said Sunday about Hurricane Dorian during a visit to the National Coordination Center of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in Washington, where he was informed of the preparations for the imminent arrival of the hurricane on the southeastern coast of the United States.
"The Americans are strong, determined and resilient, and we will support each other. And we will work very hard to minimize any effect of what comes to us. We don't even know what comes to us. All we know is that it is possibly the biggest "hurricane," Trump said.
"I am not sure that I have ever heard of category 5, I knew it existed, and I have seen some (hurricanes) of category 4, not even so many are seen" of these, he said.
The National Hurricane Center (NHC), in English) announced on Sunday that Dorian had strengthened in the last hours to reach category 5, the maximum on the Saffir-Simpson scale, becoming the strongest hitting the Bahamas archipelago since you have records.
Meanwhile, millions of people on the southeastern coast of the United States follow their trajectory with attention, as they are still under threat.
"It is not known where he is going to hit, we have an idea, probably (in a place) different from his original trajectory. The original trajectory ended in Florida. Now it seems that he is going to climb towards South Carolina, towards North Carolina. be hit. It seems that Alabama is going to receive a part (of the hurricane), but it can change its route again and return to Florida, "he said.
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