Forecasters are now saying Dorian could be a Category 4 with winds of nearly 140 mph (225 kph) when it is forecasted to hit Florida late Monday or early Tuesday. 30, 2019, at 17:20 UTC and provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shows Hurricane Dorian, right, moving over open waters in the Atlantic Ocean. This GOES-16 satellite image taken Friday, Aug. Forecasters say the hurricane is expected to keep on strengthening and become a Category 3 later in the day. People shop for supplies before the arrival of Hurricane Dorian, in Freeport, Bahamas, Friday, Aug. The National Hurricane Center says Dorian could hit the Florida coast as a major hurricane early next week. 30, 2019, at the Vero Beach City Marina in Vero Beach, Fla. Lisa Vance helps her husband Stephan go up the mast of their sailboat to do a repair in preparation for Hurricane Dorian, Friday, Aug. 30, 2019, to help protect their homes in preparation for Hurricane Dorian Friday, Aug. Residents of Flagler Beach, Fla., fill sandbags Friday, Aug. "It felt like it was better to be safe than sorry, so we canceled our plans," she said.
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Instead, Armesto decided to take shelter at her mother's hurricane-resistant house in Miami with its kitchen full of nonperishable foods. Jessica Armesto and her 1-year-old daughter, Mila, had planned to have breakfast with Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy at Disney World. Disney World and the other resorts in Orlando found themselves in the storm's projected path. The big cruise lines began rerouting their ships. Major airlines began allowing travelers to change their reservations without a fee. Trump declared a state of emergency in Florida and authorized the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate disaster-relief efforts.Īs Dorian closed in, it played havoc with people's Labor Day weekend plans. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP) This is serious."Ĭaydence Galvis, 12, right, helps her mom, Yvonne Galvis fill bags during a sandbag giveaway in preparation for Hurricane Dorian, Friday, Aug. "This is big and is growing and it still has some time to get worse," Julio Vasquez said at a Miami fast-food joint next to a gas station that had run out of fuel. They warned, too, that Dorian was moving more slowly, which could subject the state to a prolonged and destructive pummeling from wind, storm surge and heavy rain. But because of the difficulty of predicting a storm's course this far out, forecasters cautioned that practically all of Florida, including Miami and Fort Lauderdale, could be in harm's way. The National Hurricane Center's projected track showed Dorian hitting around Palm Beach County, where Mar-a-Lago is situated, then moving inland over the Orlando area.
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Getting scarier with seemingly every update from forecasters, Dorian strengthened into an "extremely dangerous" Category 3 in the afternoon and was expected to become a potentially catastrophic Category 4 with winds of almost 140 mph (225 kph) before blowing ashore late Monday or early Tuesday.
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