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Hurricane Dorian in Pictures Hurricane Dorian in Pictures
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By The New York TimesBy The New York Times
[Here is the latest coverage on Hurricane Dorian as it heads toward the United States.] [Here is the latest coverage on Hurricane Dorian.]
The northern Bahamas were bashed by a hurricane of dreadful power, as severe flooding and winds reaching 180 miles per hour led to the deaths of at least 23 people and wrecked thousands of homes. In the wake of Hurricane Dorian, there is destruction and despair, and in its path, anxiety and frantic preparation.
What made the storm so devastating was not only its enormous force — Dorian was a Category 5 hurricane when it landed on Grand Bahama island on Sunday — but also its excruciatingly slow pace. Dorian essentially stalled over the Bahamas, with its torrential downpours and destructive gusts washing over the islands hour after hour. For more than a week, the storm has churned through the Atlantic, slamming the Bahamas and thrashing the United States.
“We are already hearing from residents that whole towns have been wiped out and devastated,” aid Kevin D. Harris, director general of the Bahamas Information Center. The death toll now stands at 43 in the Bahamas. The damage is still incalculable.
On Wednesday, most of the runways on Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama — the islands most heavily pummeled by the storm — were flooded or covered in sand, making it difficult to deliver help. Some aid groups estimated that nearly half of the homes there were either destroyed or severely damaged. In the United States, the storm, now weaker, made landfall on Friday in Cape Hatteras, N.C., after making itself felt, with floods and tornadoes, along the Eastern Seaboard.
While the storm has declined in strength to a Category 2 hurricane, it remains a significant threat as it crawls north through the Carolinas, where millions of people are potentially in its path. In the southeastern United States, at least four people have died while preparing for the storm, according to The Associated Press.
The images emerging from the Bahamas show urgent scenes of rescue, roads submerged beneath floodwaters, homes inundated and boats scattered heedlessly across wrecked marinas. It has been the Week of Dorian. Here is the storm in photos.
Marsh Harbour is the principal town on Abaco. Ebony Thomas, 15, and Phil Thomas Sr. clean the floors of their home in McLean’s Town, on Friday. Four members of their family are missing after the hurricane.
Aerial photos taken over the Abaco Islands showed roads washed away and debris everywhere. The airport in Marsh Harbour is where many residents are waiting to be evacuated to Nassau.
An area called “The Mud” in Marsh Harbour on Thursday.
Rescue workers with the body of a storm victim in Marsh Harbour on Thursday. Others awaited a boat that would carry them from Marsh Harbour.
In the Abaco Islands, trees were shorn of their limbs and some houses had their roofs ripped off, while others were brought to piles of debris mired in water. The Mudd neighborhood of Marsh Harbour on Great Abaco Island was hit hard by Dorian.
A view of hurricane-decimated neighborhood in the Abaco Islands, which was among the most heavily pummeled areas. Residents of Marsh Harbour on Great Abaco Island try to recover what’s left of their belongings on Friday after Dorian destroyed much of the community.
George Bolter and his parents walk through the remains of his home destroyed by Hurricane Dorian in the Pine Bay neighborhood of Freeport, Bahamas.
An airplane sits on the side of a road in the Pine Bay neighborhood in Freeport, the second-largest city in the Bahamas.
Aerial view of the Abaco Islands in the northwestern Bahamas, which were hit the hardest. Dorian also battered the island of Grand Bahama. This is what Freeport looked like on Thursday.
A house on Grand Bahama.
The people in the photo below are waiting to be evacuated from Treasure Cay, a town on Great Abaco Island where an estimated 95 percent of homes were destroyed.
A helicopter crew from the United States Coast Guard evacuated people in Marsh Harbour, the largest town in the Abaco Islands, on Thursday.
This is an aerial view of the devastation in Marsh Harbour on Wednesday.
Recovery is expected to be very slow. This is the scene Thursday in Freeport.
Many people from the Mudd neighborhood are originally from Haiti. They were lined up outside the government center on Thursday awaiting water rations.
With access to the Abaco Islands still very limited, emergency workers relied heavily on helicopters.
Marsh Harbour is Great Abaco’s principal town.
Marsh Harbour was a portrait of destruction.
Rescue workers carried the body of a storm victim in Marsh Harbour on Thursday.
This was Freeport on Thursday.
People recover goods from a beached boat in Marsh Harbour on Thursday.
A hotel in Treasure Cay lost its roof.
Haitian immigrants awaited evacuation at an airport in Treasure Cay on Wednesday. They heard that they would be evacuated at 4 p.m., but it wasn’t true.
People gather outside a house on the outskirts of Treasure Cay.
This is the home of Stafford Symonette, a Treasure Cay pastor who said he was reluctant to sift through the debris for his belongings.
Some neighborhoods were 95 percent destroyed.
As bad as it now seems, the authorities believe the true toll of the storm is not yet understood. An aerial view of Abaco.
George Bolter and his parents walked through the remains of his home in the Pine Bay neighborhood of Freeport.
Access to and from the Bahamas was limited. The scene in Freeport.
The Abaco Islands are in the northwestern Bahamas.
Hopetown in the Abaco Islands.Hopetown in the Abaco Islands.
A view of hurricane-decimated neighborhood in the Abaco Islands, which was among the most heavily pummeled areas. Some residents of the decimated Abaco Islands were beginning to slowly reunite with their loved ones. But the path to recovery will be long.
Sodden clothes laid out to dry in Freeport, Bahamas, on Wednesday. Sodden clothes laid out to dry in Freeport on Wednesday.
Volunteers rescued several families from the rising waters from the hurricane near the Casuarina Bridge in Freeport. A day earlier, with the waters still rising, volunteers rescued several families near the Casuarina Bridge in Freeport.
Scene of more destruction in the Abaco Islands, where thousands of homes were believed to be damaged or destroyed. Early images out of Abaco made clear how badly it was damaged.
A submerged road. Many thoroughfares in the stricken areas were impassable. Many thoroughfares were left impassable.
Volunteers in heavy rain and wind in Freeport. Volunteers helped those stranded by heavy rain and winds in Freeport.
Submerged vehicles in Freeport. The scene in Freeport on Tuesday.
A weakened but sprawling Hurricane Dorian continued its slow-motion approach toward the Florida coast, still posing a major threat to the southeastern United States, where Dorian is expected to roll along the coast for days. When the storm reached the United States, coastal communities were not hit as badly as the Bahamas, but they were hardly spared.
Even if the hurricane’s center does not cross the coastline, powerful winds and rain are all but certain to disrupt life in the region. The storm has grown in size as it has weakened in strength, and its hurricane-force winds were extending outward as far as 60 miles from its center on Tuesday, up from 45 miles on Sunday. Dorian brought inland flooding to Conway, S.C., on Friday.
Kathy Roper surveyed the damage to her property following a tornado on Thursday in Wilmington, N.C. Some areas of the Carolinas, like Conway, are still rebuilding after last year’s record- breaking Hurricane Florence.
The Carolina coast is being hit by heavy rain and strong winds from the outer bands of Hurricane Dorian on Thursday. Ken Snyder outside of the Burgaw, N.C., home where he lives with his girlfriend, Elizabeth Rivenbark. The house flooded previously in Hurricanes Florence and Matthew.
Waves driven by Dorian’s winds pounded the beach near St. Augustine, Fla. Forecasters said life-threatening surf and rip-current conditions were likely along the Southeast coast. A damaged billboard outside of Barco, N.C. on Friday.
Workers in Lumberton, N.C., filled sandbags in preparation for the storm’s arrival. Plywood window coverings were removed on Friday in Wrightsville Beach, N.C.
Waves battered Tybee Island, Ga., as the storm approached. In Wilmington, N.C., on Thursday, Kathy Roper surveyed the damage to her property after a tornado.
The Carolina coast was hit by heavy rain and wind Thursday from the outer bands of the storm.
As the streets of Charleston, S.C., began to flood, people tried to unclog a storm drain.
Flooding also began in North Carolina, including Wilmington.
A day earlier, it was Florida’s turn. Waves driven by Dorian’s winds pounded the beach near St. Augustine on Wednesday.
As the hurricane approached, workers in Lumberton, N.C., filled sandbags in preparation.
Even before Dorian arrived, waves were battering Tybee Island, Ga., on Wednesday.
Workers boarding up a business on King Street in Charleston, S.C.Workers boarding up a business on King Street in Charleston, S.C.
Pat Oates went fishing in rough surf at Kure Beach near Wilmington, N.C.Pat Oates went fishing in rough surf at Kure Beach near Wilmington, N.C.
Volunteers in Miami gathered cases of water that are being donated to the relief effort in the Bahamas. As the hurricane bore down on the U.S. on Tuesday, volunteers in Miami gathered cases of water being donated for the relief effort in the Bahamas.
Shadiera Beech and her daughter Sapphire evacuated to a storm shelter in Lake Worth Beach, Fla.Shadiera Beech and her daughter Sapphire evacuated to a storm shelter in Lake Worth Beach, Fla.
Children played in a flooded parking lot in Lantana, Fla.Children played in a flooded parking lot in Lantana, Fla.
Evacuees waited to board buses to inland county shelters in Savannah, Ga. With meteorologists warning of life-threatening storm surges and dangerous winds along the coasts of the three states, residents prepared to evacuate. The scene in Savannah, Ga., on Tuesday.
Residents began evacuating from the coasts of Georgia and the Carolinas. Meteorologists have warned that Dorian would probably bring tornadoes, life-threatening storm surge and dangerous winds along the coasts of the three states into Thursday. Residents of Savannah boarding buses for inland shelters.
Visitors shielded themselves from the wind in Jacksonville Beach, Fla. In Jacksonville Beach, Fla, on Tuesday, visitors shielded themselves from the wind.
A woman rested at a shelter in Lake Worth, Fla., on Monday. Shelters opened throughout the region as mandatory evacuation orders were issued. As mandatory evacuation orders were issued last weekend, shelters opened up. This one was in Lake Worth, Fla.
Residents from a senior assisted living center were evacuated in Kissimmee, Fla., on Sunday. In Kissimmee, Fla., residents from an assisted living center were evacuated on Sunday.
Mobile homes were outfitted with hurricane shutters in Cape Canaveral, Fla. As of 2017, Florida had about 850,000 mobile homes, more than any other state. Mobile homes outfitted with hurricane shutters in Cape Canaveral. As of 2017, Florida had about 850,000 mobile homes, more than any other state.
Members of the Florida National Guard prepared their helicopters for potential aviation support and rescue missions at Opa Locka Airport, near Miami, on Monday. The Florida National Guard prepared helicopters for possible support and rescue missions at Opa Locka Airport, near Miami, on Monday.
The Florida Army National Guard in Jacksonville on Sunday. The National Guard in Jacksonville a day earlier.
From left, Ryan Alkhatab, Bernardo Craveiro and Will Warren began to evacuate Jacksonville Beach on Monday. From left, Ryan Alkhatab, Bernardo Craveiro and Will Warren evacuating Jacksonville Beach on Monday.
Wesley Campbell, 65, watched as a steady flow of traffic headed west on I-278 as mandatory evacuation orders went into effect for Hilton Head Island, S.C., on Monday. Wesley Campbell, 65, watched as a steady flow of traffic headed west on I-278 as mandatory evacuation orders went into effect for Hilton Head Island, S.C.
Workers built sand embankments in Ponte Vedra, Fla., on Monday. Workers building sand embankments in Ponte Vedra, Fla.
Lounge chairs and tables were placed in a pool on Monday in Hilton Head, S.C., in preparation for Dorian. Lounge chairs and tables were placed in a pool in Hilton Head, S.C., in preparation for Dorian.
Surfers took advantage of four- to five-foot swells in Hilton Head. The area is under a mandatory evacuation order. Labor Day surfers took advantage of four- to five-foot swells in Hilton Head.
Residents and businesses boarded up windows in Charleston, S.C., on Sunday. A day earlier in Charleston, residents and businesses boarded up windows.
People filled sandbags on Sunday in Orange Park, Fla. Filling sandbags in Orange Park, Fla.
Kevin Rosas, 6, waited for his father, Jose, to buy a generator in Lakeland, Fla.Kevin Rosas, 6, waited for his father, Jose, to buy a generator in Lakeland, Fla.
Samorah Watkins, left, and Benyle Jordan walked in the surf in Miami Beach. Samorah Watkins, left, and Benyle Jordan in Miami Beach on Sunday morning.
A worker installed plywood over windows in Miami Beach on Saturday.A worker installed plywood over windows in Miami Beach on Saturday.
Motorists throughout Florida filled up vehicles and gas cans in preparation for Dorian’s arrival. Leal Giese stocked up on fuel in Lake Worth. Motorists throughout Florida filled up vehicles and gas cans in preparation for the storm. Leal Giese stocked up on fuel in Lake Worth.
[Here are some tips on how to prepare for an evacuation order.][Here are some tips on how to prepare for an evacuation order.]
Artwork was prepared for storage to protect it from Hurricane Dorian in West Palm Beach. Artwork was sent to storage for protection in West Palm Beach on Saturday.
Workers boarded up windows of a building in Palm Beach. Making preparations in Palm Beach.
[Stay or evacuate? Read more about how Florida residents are weighing their options.][Stay or evacuate? Read more about how Florida residents are weighing their options.]
There were long lines at a supermarket in West Palm Beach on Friday. On Friday, there were long lines at a supermarket in West Palm Beach.
A market in Lake Worth was already running low on water. In Lake Worth, Fla., a market was already running low on water.
[What do storm categories mean? Here’s what you need to know.][What do storm categories mean? Here’s what you need to know.]
At a Home Depot in West Palm Beach, workers loaded a truck with plywood.At a Home Depot in West Palm Beach, workers loaded a truck with plywood.