SeaWorld Orlando was re-opening mid-morning Wednesday after being closed all day Tuesday.South Carolina Department of Correction officials have decided not to evacuate a coastal prison that houses about 950 inmates, although Hurricane Dorian is projected to head toward the area by midweek.The department tweeted Monday that staff and inmates at the Ridgeland Correctional Institution in the Jasper County evacuation zone will remain at the prison during the storm. I want to assure you that more help is on the way. Storm surge 18 to 23 feet above normal tide levels is also expected, with higher destructive waves.Hazardous conditions are expected to continue over Grand Bahama Island during most of Monday as the storm continues its slow crawl toward Florida's coast.President Donald Trump has approved emergency declarations for Georgia and South Carolina due to Hurricane Dorian.Trump approved the declarations on Sunday. They evacuated for Florence last year and their home three blocks from the ocean wasn't damaged.
Maximum sustained winds have increased to near 70 mph (110 km/h) with higher gusts. "A bunch of the neighbors are having a party and they said we will be OK.
Florida has declared a state of emergency, and tourists have been asked to leave the Bahamas. #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX…,https://www.instagram.com/washingtonpost/&hellip,WATCH: Man with TV on Head Leaves CRT TVs on Porches in Virginia. A mandatory evacuation order meant most businesses were closed and many locals had a day off work. Location is North Eastern Deerfield Beach Florida, about 3 minutes from the beach. Track the latest tropical activity with CNN's storm tracker. Lewis was driving and said he observed only one gas station open with a line of about half a mile forming.He said the government was now pulling teams together to receive goods from abroad and was organizing distribution centers as teams began to launch search-and-rescue missions now that the weather has cleared.Hurricane Dorian's center is moving parallel to Florida's northeastern coast as it churns north-northwestward in the Atlantic.The storm's maximum sustained winds Wednesday morning are near 105 mph (165 kph), making it a Category 2 storm.Dorian is centered about 95 miles (155 kilometers) east-northeast of Daytona Beach, Florida, and is moving about 8 mph (13 kph).Sea turtle nests along many of Florida's beaches are in danger of being washed out to sea as Hurricane Dorian sideswipes the Atlantic Coast.Conservation officials urge the public not to interfere by trying to rescue any stranded hatchlings or disturbing buried nests.Volusia County's seat turtle habitat conservation plan manager Jennifer Winters tell the Orlando Sentinel "there's not a lot" that can be done.
The hurricane center says heavy rainfall of up to 18 inches (46 centimeters) could fall in places along Mexico's Gulf Coast and the Sierra Madre Oriental, and could cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides as the storm moves ashore Wednesday.Tropical Storm Gabrielle, meanwhile, is far out in the Atlantic Ocean and poses no threat to land. Earlier this week, Dorian smashed through the northern Bahamas as the strongest hurricane ever to hit the islands, leaving at least 20 dead.People in the hard-hit Abaco islands say they haven't seen any aid come in after Dorian's onslaught, except for medical supplies for the main hospital, where hundreds are gathered to await help.Ben Allen, a 40-year-old construction worker and maintenance man, worried about supplies of potable water running out. Minimum central pressure is 952 mb (28.11 inches).“At 8 a.m. the NOAA noted: “At 800 AM EDT (1200 UTC), the eye of Hurricane Dorian was located by reconnaissance aircraft and NOAA Doppler radar near latitude 27.1 North, longitude 78.4 West. It has top sustained winds of 105 mph (168 kph) as a Category 2 hurricane. The latest on Hurricane Dorian (all times local):The government in the Bahamas says the death toll from Hurricane Dorian has risen by one to 44.Health Minister Duane Sands on Sunday confirmed the toll in a WhatsApp message to The Associated Press.Officials have warned that the number of deaths is likely to rise as security forces and other teams search devastated areas of the northern Bahamas.The government also announced a telephone hotline where Bahamians can call to report family members who have been unaccounted for since the storm.At least five deaths have been blamed on the storm in the Southeastern U.S. and one in Puerto Rico.The government of the Bahamas says more than 900 members of the Bahamian police and military are on Abaco and Grand Bahama islands to help with hurricane relief.The government also says 120 Jamaican security personnel arrived in the Bahamas on Saturday evening and 100 troops from Trinidad and Tobago are to arrive Sunday as part of the aid effort in the wake of Hurricane Dorian.The Bahamas says "large numbers of security forces" from Britain and the United States are already involved in search, rescue and recovery operations.The government says at least 43 people died in the storm, but authorities are still trying to reach some areas that were cut off by flooding and debris.About 250 people who lost their homes when Hurricane Dorian hit the northern Bahamas have arrived in the Bahamian capital after a 13-hour trip on a government-chartered ferry.Passengers on the "Sea Wind" ferry arrived in Nassau on Saturday, joining hundreds of other people from Abaco and Grand Bahama islands who were desperate to escape harsh conditions there.Carlen Merizier, 23, says she and her two-year-old son are lucky to be alive.
Maximum sustained winds have increased to near 70 mph (110 km/h) with higher gusts. "A bunch of the neighbors are having a party and they said we will be OK.
Florida has declared a state of emergency, and tourists have been asked to leave the Bahamas. #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX…,https://www.instagram.com/washingtonpost/&hellip,WATCH: Man with TV on Head Leaves CRT TVs on Porches in Virginia. A mandatory evacuation order meant most businesses were closed and many locals had a day off work. Location is North Eastern Deerfield Beach Florida, about 3 minutes from the beach. Track the latest tropical activity with CNN's storm tracker. Lewis was driving and said he observed only one gas station open with a line of about half a mile forming.He said the government was now pulling teams together to receive goods from abroad and was organizing distribution centers as teams began to launch search-and-rescue missions now that the weather has cleared.Hurricane Dorian's center is moving parallel to Florida's northeastern coast as it churns north-northwestward in the Atlantic.The storm's maximum sustained winds Wednesday morning are near 105 mph (165 kph), making it a Category 2 storm.Dorian is centered about 95 miles (155 kilometers) east-northeast of Daytona Beach, Florida, and is moving about 8 mph (13 kph).Sea turtle nests along many of Florida's beaches are in danger of being washed out to sea as Hurricane Dorian sideswipes the Atlantic Coast.Conservation officials urge the public not to interfere by trying to rescue any stranded hatchlings or disturbing buried nests.Volusia County's seat turtle habitat conservation plan manager Jennifer Winters tell the Orlando Sentinel "there's not a lot" that can be done.
The hurricane center says heavy rainfall of up to 18 inches (46 centimeters) could fall in places along Mexico's Gulf Coast and the Sierra Madre Oriental, and could cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides as the storm moves ashore Wednesday.Tropical Storm Gabrielle, meanwhile, is far out in the Atlantic Ocean and poses no threat to land. Earlier this week, Dorian smashed through the northern Bahamas as the strongest hurricane ever to hit the islands, leaving at least 20 dead.People in the hard-hit Abaco islands say they haven't seen any aid come in after Dorian's onslaught, except for medical supplies for the main hospital, where hundreds are gathered to await help.Ben Allen, a 40-year-old construction worker and maintenance man, worried about supplies of potable water running out. Minimum central pressure is 952 mb (28.11 inches).“At 8 a.m. the NOAA noted: “At 800 AM EDT (1200 UTC), the eye of Hurricane Dorian was located by reconnaissance aircraft and NOAA Doppler radar near latitude 27.1 North, longitude 78.4 West. It has top sustained winds of 105 mph (168 kph) as a Category 2 hurricane. The latest on Hurricane Dorian (all times local):The government in the Bahamas says the death toll from Hurricane Dorian has risen by one to 44.Health Minister Duane Sands on Sunday confirmed the toll in a WhatsApp message to The Associated Press.Officials have warned that the number of deaths is likely to rise as security forces and other teams search devastated areas of the northern Bahamas.The government also announced a telephone hotline where Bahamians can call to report family members who have been unaccounted for since the storm.At least five deaths have been blamed on the storm in the Southeastern U.S. and one in Puerto Rico.The government of the Bahamas says more than 900 members of the Bahamian police and military are on Abaco and Grand Bahama islands to help with hurricane relief.The government also says 120 Jamaican security personnel arrived in the Bahamas on Saturday evening and 100 troops from Trinidad and Tobago are to arrive Sunday as part of the aid effort in the wake of Hurricane Dorian.The Bahamas says "large numbers of security forces" from Britain and the United States are already involved in search, rescue and recovery operations.The government says at least 43 people died in the storm, but authorities are still trying to reach some areas that were cut off by flooding and debris.About 250 people who lost their homes when Hurricane Dorian hit the northern Bahamas have arrived in the Bahamian capital after a 13-hour trip on a government-chartered ferry.Passengers on the "Sea Wind" ferry arrived in Nassau on Saturday, joining hundreds of other people from Abaco and Grand Bahama islands who were desperate to escape harsh conditions there.Carlen Merizier, 23, says she and her two-year-old son are lucky to be alive.