Hurricane Dorian battered the Bahamian islands of Great Abaco and Grand Bahama early on Monday damaging over 13, 000 houses. “We don’t yet have a complete picture of what has happened,” Sune Bulow, head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ Emergency Operation Center in Geneva, said in a statement.
Hurricane Dorian battered the Bahamas with ferocious wind and rain on Sunday, the monstrous Category 5 storm wrecking towns and homes as it churned on an uncertain path toward the US coast where hundreds of thousands were ordered to evacuate. Packing sustained winds of 185 miles per hour (295 kilometers per hour), Dorian crashed onshore in the Abacos Islands, in the northwest of the Bahamas, as the strongest storm ever to hit the Caribbean chain.
After days of nerve-wracking uncertainty surrounding the storm’s path, the southeastern US states of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina finally ordered coastal residents to evacuate in a mass exodus set to affect hundreds of thousands of people, Reuters reported.
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Farther north, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster ordered mandatory evacuations for parts of eight coastal counties effective at noon on Monday. More than 830, 000 people were under evacuation orders in Charleston and other coastal communities in South Carolina, emergency management officials announced .
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp ordered evacuations in six coastal counties, including all of Savannah 150, 000 residents, also effective at noon on Monday, Kemp’s office said on Twitter.
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