• Hurricane: Five confirmed dead and "numerous bodies floating": Hurricane Dorian leaves in Bahamas an "unprecedented devastation"
  • Bahamas: Hurricane Dorian devastates the Abaco Islands in northwestern Bahamas, with winds of 300 km / h
  • United States: Hurricane Dorian changes trajectory while Trump warns that he is one of the worst "in decades"

Dorian still has enormous destruction potential, as you know in the Bahamas, where he left five dead and incalculable material damage this Sunday. After remaining almost 24 hours "parked" in that archipelago, this Tuesday the hurricane began to move again towards Florida although everything indicates that it will not touch land in that state and other points of the east coast of the United States continue in vilo.

According to the latest bulletin of the National Hurricane Center (CNH), Dorian is now 70 kilometers northeast of Freeport, the main city of Grand Bahama, and 170 kilometers from Fort Pierce, in Florida, with maximum sustained winds of 175 kilometers per hour , while the eye of the hurricane has begun to move "slowly" to the northwest at a speed of four kilometers per hour.

"We are in the middle of a historical tragedy, the devastation is unprecedented and is enormous," said Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis, who confirmed the death of five people on the Abacus Island, the most punished by Dorian, while about twenty wounded had to be evacuated to Nassau, the capital of the country, by helicopters from the United States Coast Guard.

The Red Cross has warned that the impact in Bahamas is "catastrophic" and estimates that some 62,000 people remain without electricity or drinking water on the island of Abaco and Grand Bahama, where they estimate that 45 percent of homes have been damaged. "A lot of humanitarian aid will be needed immediately and we believe that recovery tasks will take months," said an agency spokesman, Matthew Cochrane.

The hurricane will approach the coast of Florida from tomorrow, where it is not expected to touch land, while the storm path cone is not expected to affect the central area of ​​that state, according to the CNH bulletin, He added that Dorian will continue throughout Wednesday his way to the states of Georgia and South Carolina to reach the coasts of North Carolina on Thursday afternoon.

The people of Florida have been preparing for the possible arrival of Dorian since last week, following the warnings of the authorities and pending the bulletins of the National Hurricane Center. But after knowing the latest projections, people begin to breathe with a mixture of relief and resignation after several days locked up at home.

Even so, many residents who decided to evacuate their homes were still in authorized shelters along the central coast of Florida, where according to data from the Florida Power and Light company, almost 1,400 families continued Tuesday without power supply between Palm counties Beach and Volusia, although the day before the blackouts left dark -and without air conditioning- 4,000 homes.

Where they were also awaiting the evolution of the hurricane's trajectory, which has traveled less than 50 kilometers in the last 24 hours, is Savannah, one of the main urban centers of Georgia, as local authorities announced this Tuesday that starting At 9:00 p.m. local time, there will be a curfew "until further notice."

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