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Bahamas Desperate and Devastated, Dorian Stalls
posted (September 2, 2019)
Hurricane Dorian has devastated the northern Bahamas and tonight, it remains an extremely powerful category 4 storm.

And what's most troubling at this hour is that the steering currents have collapsed - and the storm is stationary, just sitting over the island of Grand Bahama and pommeling it with relentless rain, massive winds and towering storm surges.

It's a worst case scenario as the storm is stationary tonight and is expected to continue to sit in Grand Bahama for another 12 hours. And that's after it mashed up the island of Abaco yesterday. That's a total population of about 50 - 70 thousand Bahamians in its path.

The scale of devastation is chilling - and here's some of what's happening on the storm - ravaged island nation:

As we said at the top, Dorian remains nearly stationary just north of Grand Bahama Island. A slow west-northwestward motion is expected to resume overnight and continue into early Tuesday. On this track, the core of extremely dangerous Hurricane Dorian will continue to pound Grand Bahama Island into Tuesday morning.

We'll keep following the story.

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