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Hurricane Dorian was an extremely powerful and catastrophic tropical cyclone, ... President Trump receives an update on Hurricane Dorian on August 29, 2019.
Dorian also dropped an estimated 3.0 ft (0.91 m) of rain over The Bahamas. [16] Hurricane Dorian killed at least 70 people in The Bahamas – 60 on Abaco and 10 on Grand Bahama. [17] One of the fatalities was classified as indirect. [18] Damage amounted to US$3.4 billion. [19] Insured losses alone were confirmed to be at least US$1 billion. [20]
President Trump receives an update on Hurricane Dorian on August 29, 2019. This map was later altered to indicate, falsely, that Dorian would hit Alabama. In a tweet about the approaching hurricane on September 1, 2019, Trump said that "South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated."
On Sunday, Dorian's maximum sustained winds reached 185 mph (297 kph), with gusts up to 220 mph (354 kph), tying the record for the most powerful Atlantic hurricane ever to make landfall.
The Latest on Dorian: The hurricane was lashing the east coast of central Florida early Wednesday and was about 95 miles east-northeast of Daytona Beach and moving north-northwest at 8 mph.
The National Hurricane Center's most recent track for Dorian places Mar-a-Lago in the crosshairs of a possible Category 4 storm with winds of almost 140 mph (225 kph).
Dorian made successive landfalls in Barbados and St. Lucia on August 27 with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (80 km/h). Following a reformation of the core, the storm turned northwest and gained strength. Coincident with the formation of an eye, Dorian achieved hurricane strength as it struck St. Croix and St. Thomas shortly thereafter.
The storm system sideswiped the Caribbean without doing major damage, but Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis has declared a state of emergency.