Wednesday 4 September 2019

The first line of defense for Hurricane Dorian is the shoreline

Hurricane Dorian was downgraded to a still-dangerous Category 2 hurricane packing powerful winds and generating catastrophic storm surges that slammed into the Bahamas. After Dorian hit the Abacos Islands on Monday as a Category 5 hurricane, its outer band reached Florida's coast Tuesday evening, and the National Hurricane Center reported that the storm is expected to track north along the East Coast on Wednesday.

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