Officials from Florida to Virginia warned residents to take the threat of Hurricane Dorian seriously. The storm is a Category 2 but is still considered dangerous with the potential to produce storm surges of several feet.
The hurricane is expected to remain at about the same intensity for the next couple of days, and even if it does not make landfall, hurricane-force winds are expected to reach parts of the coast from central Florida to North Carolina, the hurricane centerIn addition to the storm surge, coastal parts of the Carolinas could get 5 to 10 inches of rain, with isolated totals of 15 inches possible, and the coast from parts of Florida to Georgia could get 3 to 6 inches, forecasters said.
"It's total devastation. It's decimated. Apocalyptic. It looks like a bomb went off," Lia Head-Rigby, who helps run a local hurricane relief organization and flew over the Abaco Islands, said according to the Associated Press. “It's not rebuilding something that was there; we have to start again."
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