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Man of us in the Caribbean are suffering symptoms of PTSD as result of these weather events. in the Virgin Islands we were given wrong info from supposedly valid sources. We were told the Tropical Storm Dorian was passing south of St. Croix, only to wake up Thursday morning to find the Hurricane sitting right on top of us. St. Thomas is 40 miles north of St. Croix. During IrmaMaria the British Island of Anegada which was flat lost all those inhabitants who were not evacuated. This video is from the Bahamas, . We have been sending energy to those in the path of this storm. Be Safe.
 
Yesterday I was listening to an old mexican man on yt who was apparently downloading info from the Pleyadians in 2015 where they said that the worst sea wave shock would hit North Carolina area. I hope they weren´t referring to Dorian hurrican, fingers crossed.
 
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Friday morning, September‎ ‎06‎, ‎2019 - While conditions were improving in South Carolina, Dorian continued to unleash high winds and flooding downpours in North Carolina early Friday morning as the powerful hurricane neared landfall.

Cape Lookout, North Carolina, was located within the western portion of Dorian's eye around 4 a.m. EDT, the National Hurricane Center said. Dorian has not made an official landfall yet, however. Even if the storm does not officially make landfall in Cape Lookout, AccuWeather meteorologists believe a landfall will occur on Cape Hatteras later Friday morning.

As of 4 a.m. EDT Friday, Dorian was located about 15 miles south of Cape Lookout, North Carolina, and was moving northeast at around 14 mph.

Dorian has been downgraded to a Category 1 hurricane after regaining major hurricane status at midweek. Despite losing wind intensity, the hurricane continues to pack a punch in terms of heavy rainfall. Wilmington, North Carolina, picked up 8.58 inches on Thursday alone. The city normally receives 7.88 inches during the entire month of September.

Water levels were rising on beaches in Wilmington as high tide approached on Thursday. AccuWeather Digital Journalist Chaffin Dos Santos was in Wilmington reporting on the storm's worsening impacts as Dorian approached the city.

While there continues to be a risk of isolated tornadoes in eastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, this risk has substantially decreased since Thursday. A frenzy of tornadic activity came during the early morning hours of Thursday in southeastern North Carolina. The twisters resulted in numerous damage reports as the region continued to be pelted by Dorian's increasing winds, heavy rain and storm surge.

The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center reports 13 preliminary tornados in the area on Thursday, and this number may increase as crews survey additional damage. Video from Carolina Shores, North Carolina, showed homes ripped apart, RVs tossed on their sides and numerous trees uprooted.

Power outages increased as winds picked up speed, with nearly 190,000 customers without power in South Carolina Thursday evening, according to PowerOutage.US. While the number of power outages has since decreased in South Carolina, they are on the rise in North Carolina, with over 176,000 customers without power as of early Friday morning.

The destruction in the Carolinas was just the latest in the notorious storm's devastating history, which goes back to when the hurricane left historic and catastrophic damage in the northern Bahamas earlier this week , causing at least 30 deaths. Officials in the Bahamas expect the death toll to continue to increase.

Dorian's lifespan is expected to last into the weekend, as it is forecast to pound areas of the Northeast coast, then accelerate to the north where it will make landfall in Atlantic Canada.

Four deaths have been reported on the United States mainlands, three in Florida and one in North Carolina. Two of the deaths were victims who were preparing for the storm, according to the Associated Press. In addition, the death of an 80-year-old man was reported in Puerto Rico after falling from a ladder while climbing the roof of his residence to clean the drains as part of the preparations prior to the passage of Dorian.

The National Weather Service identified a waterspout off the coast of Emerald Isle, North Carolina, on Thursday morning, Sept. 5, 2019, as Dorian skirted along the southeastern U.S. coast.

6:36 a.m. EDT Friday:
Power outage totals in North Carolina continue to climb, as about 200,000 residents will wake up in the dark this morning. In South Carolina, over 150,000 people are still without power as well.

In North Carolina, the Greenville Utilities Commission told WNCT that it had to stop using bucket trucks because of the strong winds.

6:03 a.m. EDT Friday:
Dorian continues to brush against North Carolina as the eyewall is now moving across the Outer Banks, according to the National Hurricane Center. The hurricane-force winds are traveling northeast at 14 mph as the eye of the storm nears official landfall.

5:23 a.m. EDT Friday:
Maximum sustained winds from Dorian are lingering at 90 mph, with stronger gusts being reported at coastal locations. Winds from the eyewall are extending outward 45 miles.

The National Hurricane Center is predicting areas of southeast Virginia and northeast North Carolina to receive up to eight inches of rain total.

4:30 a.m. EDT Friday:
The western eyewall of Dorian is over Cape Lookout, North Carolina, according to the latest update issued by NHC. The hurricane has not officially made landfall, however.

Even if the storm does not officially make landfall in Cape Lookout, AccuWeather meteorologists believe a landfall will occur on Cape Hatteras later Friday morning.

2:50 a.m. EDT Friday:
Wilmington, North Carolina, has picked up nearly 9 inches of rain in the past 24 hours due to Dorian. Rain and wind will gradually wind down in the area as Dorian sweeps farther northeastward throughout the morning.


 
Geeze, when you are on an island and a hurricane is practically on top of you, how do you evacuate? And to where?

First thing that comes to my mind is: what about underground? I have no idea about hurricanes and how they affect you when underground or deep underground. Maybe building a kind of bunker in advance could be helpful or lifesaving. Like building an ark. Who knows...
 
DISASTER: Massive oil spills reported on #GrandBahamaIsland . #HurricaneDorian tore off the roof of 5 warehouses, sending oil on the nearby highway but also to the ocean. At least 30 deaths at #Bahamas . #oilspill


Aerial footage from Bahamas storm zone shows widespread destruction
September 4, 2019
A first look at what Hurricane Dorian left behind in the Abaco Islands, as one of the strongest hurricanes to ever make landfall in the Bahamas.

A clearer picture of the devastation wrought in the Bahamas by Hurricane Dorian emerged on Tuesday. AccuWeather National Reporter Jonathan Petramala flew over the town of Marsh Harbour in the Abaco Islands, one of the first places blasted by the powerful storm on Sunday when it was a Category 5 hurricane with 185-mph sustained winds and gust up to 225 mph.

Exclusive aerial footage Petramala recorded from a helicopter showed widespread devastation in Marsh Harbour. Many buildings and homes were totally flattened and reduced to piles of rubble. Other homes that weren't leveled had roofs that had been partially or totally blown off. And some structures appeared to have survived the high winds with minimal structural damage. Leonard M. Thompson International Airport, which is situated on Marsh Harbour about a mile inland from the Atlantic Ocean, was completely submerged by water.

Any trees that remained standing had been completely stripped of their leaves. Meanwhile, debris was littered in every direction.
There weren't many signs of life in the footage shot by Petramala, but one encouraging moment showed a woman walking his dog along a street, destruction all around him. But the woman and the dog seemed unharmed.

Nearly two days after Marsh Harbour was thrashed by Dorian, an ominous ceiling of gray clouds still hung over the island as Petramala surveyed the damage.

"Much of the damage looked like what you'd see caused by a strong tornado, especially the trees being stripped of their foliage," AccuWeather Meteorologist and Social Media Manager Jesse Ferrell said after viewing the footage. Indeed, the top wind gusts unleashed by Dorian hit 225 mph, the equivalent of wind speeds in an EF4 tornado.

"It's just heartbreaking," Petramala said of the destruction after returning from the flight.
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This before-and-after image shows Leonard M. Thompson International Airport in Marsh Harbour before Hurricane Dorian struck, and completely under water in the days after the storm slammed the Bahamas. (AccuWeather / Google Earth)

As of Tuesday evening, the official death toll stood at seven, according to the government, and included a young boy who reportedly drowned. But reports from local media of bodies floating in floodwaters stoked fears that the number of fatalities would skyrocket in the days ahead.

On Monday, Prime Minister Hubert Minnis addressed the media and said, "We are in the midst of a historic tragedy in parts of the northern Bahamas." He added, "The devastation is unprecedented and extensive," the images of the aftermath captured by residents "heartbreaking."

The video sent back from the storm zone by Petramala stood as a stark illustration of Minnis' assessment, along with the footage and still images flooding onto social media in the wake of the record hurricane. One dramatic clip showed a group of four people swept away by raging floodwaters. An ABC News crew filmed the incident, and one of the producers helped rescue the individuals, members of the same family, according to ABC News, from the water.

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Even before the storm began pulling out, the International Red Cross had mobilized to begin addressing the catastrophe in the Bahamas. Matthew Cochrane, a spokesperson for the Red Cross, told AccuWeather some 13,000 homes were destroyed or severely damaged in the storm. More than 60,000 would need food and clean water in the coming days, Cochrane told The Associated Press.

By Tuesday, Hurricane Dorian, after parking itself over the Bahamas for more than 12 hours, unleashing heavy rains and stirring up a storm surge of more than 20 feet, finally began moving away from the islands.

Weather conditions are expected to begin improving in the Bahamas as Dorian continues moving away and the island nation begins to pick up the pieces. As for where Dorian is headed next, forecasters were watching the storm closely, calling for it to stay just off the Florida coast as it heads north. They cautioned a landfall in the Carolinas was still a possibility.




New 66-hour radar loop covers #Dorian's historic and catastrophic trek across the northern #Bahamas: http://bmcnoldy.rsmas.miami.edu/tropics/radar/.
 
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Bahamas hurricane survivors tell of children swept away; death toll reaches 30
A Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew conducts a search and rescue mission following Hurricane Dorian near Marsh Harbour, Bahamas, in this September 5, 2019 handout photo. Petty Officer 3rd Class Hunter Medley/U.S. Coast Guard/Handout via REUTERS

Richard Johnson said his six-year-old brother Adrian was just too small to withstand Hurricane Dorian. The boy was blown into churning storm surge and is among thousands of people missing, many of them children, after the worst hurricane to hit the Bahamas.

Hurricane Dorian death toll in Bahamas rises to 43: media
Survivors of Hurricane Dorian use a destroyed roof as a bench as they spent hours in the sun awaiting flights off the heavily damaged Bahamian Island, at Treasure Cay Airport in Abaco, Bahamas, September 5, 2019. REUTERS/Nick Brown

The death toll from Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas has risen to 43, according to media reports late on Friday.

Thousands try to flee hurricane-devastated Bahamas islands
People sit in a ferry at Marsh Harbour Government Port during an evacuation operation after Hurricane Dorian hit the Abaco Islands in Marsh Harbour, Bahamas, September 6, 2019. REUTERS/Marco Bello

Hundreds of people fled the Bahamas island of Great Abaco by boat and plane on Friday and thousands more lined up to get on a cruise ship leaving neighboring Grand Bahama to escape the catastrophic aftermath of Hurricane Dorian.

Typhoon knocks out power in South Korea; North braces for storm
A powerful typhoon slammed into South Korea early on Saturday, killing at least one person and disrupting power to 57,000 households before turning toward North Korea, authorities said.

Typhoon leaves thousands of South Korean homes powerless
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Typhoon Lingling’s winds of up to 140 kilometers per hour whipped up high waves in the southern port city of Busan on September 7, 2019. (Yonhap/AFP)

Strong winds and rain from Typhoon Lingling caused power outages in some 17,000 homes on the southern resort island of Jeju and in southern mainland regions, South Korea’s Ministry of the Interior and Safety said.

The typhoon was 184 kilometers southwest of the southern mainland city of Gunsan on Saturday morning, moving north at 45 kilometers per hour with winds of up to 140 kilometers per hour, the Korea Meteorological Association said.

It is expected to affect a broader part of the country as it passes off South Korea’s west coast later on Saturday before making landfall in North Korea in the evening.

North Korean leader berates officials over typhoon preparations
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends an emergency meeting to discuss disaster prevention efforts against Typhoon Lingling on Friday, September 6, 2019. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has berated officials for their “easygoing” attitude to the approach of Typhoon Lingling, state media reported.

The powerful storm is expected to make landfall in the North on Saturday afternoon after passing off the coast of South Korea, according to Seoul’s Korea Meteorological Association.

Kim convened an emergency meeting on Friday and said “dangerous circumstances” caused by the typhoon were “imminent,” but that many in positions of authority were ill prepared, the North’s KCNA news service reported later that day.

Officials in the North “remain unchanged in their attitude and helpless against the typhoon, unaware of its seriousness and seized with easygoing sentiment,” Kim said during the meeting,

In South Korea, more than 270 flights were canceled and power outages in over 30,000 homes have been reported, while public parks and zoos were closed for the weekend after heavy rain and strong winds on Saturday.

Seoul’s weather authorities also warned of landslides and flooding, and advised the public to stay indoors.

Kim said efforts to minimize damage from the typhoon in North Korea would be an “enormous struggle,” adding that its army should “remain loyal to its sacred duty” of ensuring its citizens’ safety.
 
Dorian hits Canada's Atlantic coast, knocks out power, downs a crane
A crane lays against a construction site during the arrival of Hurricane Dorian in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada September 7, 2019. REUTERS/John Morris

A crane lays against a construction site during the arrival of Hurricane Dorian in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada September 7, 2019. REUTERS/John Morris

September 7, 2019 - HALIFAX, Nova Scotia - Dorian slammed into Canada's Atlantic coast on Saturday, knocking down trees, cutting power, and blowing over a large construction crane in downtown Halifax, the capital of the province of Nova Scotia.

The government will deploy the military to help with recovery efforts after the storm passes, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said on Twitter. Local authorities urged anyone who lived close to the seashore to evacuate as a precaution.

Dorian was reclassified to a very intense post-tropical storm as it lost a defined eye as it passed over Halifax though wind speeds of 150 kilometers per hour (93 miles per hour) were equivalent to a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, the Canadian Hurricane Centre said.

“The safety of Canadians is our number one priority and we’re ready to help Atlantic Canada through this storm,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Twitter.

More than 330,000 people in the province have lost power, Nova Scotia Power said, but there were no reports of injuries due to the storm.

“We’re kind of hunkered down, and we can see all of the trees that are waving around,” said Danielle Horne, 32, who lives on the eighth floor of an apartment building in Halifax.

“There’s definitely a little bit of nervousness for my car, which is parked outside,” she said.

During the afternoon, Dorian knocked trees onto houses in the city, blew off at least one roof, and toppled a large crane from the top of a building under construction.

Dorian ripped into the Bahamas earlier this week with Category 5 winds and some gusts topping 200 miles per hour (320 kph), leaving a trail of destruction and death, with 43 confirmed dead and the number expected to spike in coming days.

The storm pounded parts of North Carolina’s Outer Banks Islands on Friday.

On Saturday, winds picked up to 100 miles per hour (160 kph) early in the day, making it a Category 2 hurricane, but it weakened as it neared Canada’s coast.

After Nova Scotia, Dorian is expected to move toward Prince Edward Island and on Sunday reach Newfoundland, the Canadian Hurricane Centre project.

Dorian topples crane, knocks out power in eastern Canada

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A bent palm tree is silhouetted against a setting sun, in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian in Marsh Harbor, Abaco Island, Bahamas, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019. (AP)
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A plane is turned upside down after Hurricane Dorian, September 6, 2019, in Marsh Harbour, Great Abaco. (AFP)

TORONTO: Dorian arrived on Canada’s Atlantic coast Saturday with heavy rain and powerful winds, toppling a construction crane in Halifax and knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of people a day after the storm wreaked havoc on North Carolina’s Outer Banks.

Tokyo cancels flights, trains ahead of Typhoon Faxai
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Typhoon Faxai, a woman’s name in Lao, could dump as much as 300 millimeters of rain in the next 24 hours. (File/AFP)

September 08, 2019 - TOKYO: Japan braced for Typhoon Faxai on Sunday canceling trains and flights in Tokyo with destructive winds of up to 216 kph (134 mph) and heavy rain expected to hit the region overnight, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

Faxai, a woman’s name in Lao, could dump as much as 300 millimeters of rain in the next 24 hours, said the agency. “Winds and rains could pick up suddenly, causing severe storms at sea, and there is a risk of record-breaking winds in the capital and other regions,” it said on its website.

National broadcaster NHK warned that high-speed winds could fell power lines and damage homes, while heavy rains could trigger flooding and landslides.

In preparation, the Central Japan Railway company said it would cancel or suspend around 50 bullet train services between Tokyo and Osaka from 0900 GMT and warned of the possibility of additional delays and destination changes due to the storm.

Japan Airlines it had canceled around 20 flights to and from Tokyo’s two airports on Sunday, and warned of more cancelations and delays.

ANA Holdings said it had canceled all flights on Sunday to Hachijojima, a small island located around 300 km (186 miles) south of Tokyo, adding that some flights to and from Tokyo may be delayed or canceled on Sunday and Monday.
 
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The Seattle skies lit up with an extreme lightning storm on Saturday night, with over 200 strikes recorded in just 45 minutes.
The National Weather Service’s Seattle station said about 1,250 strikes had been recorded during the powerful thunderstorms over Western Washington, in the space of about three-and-a-half hours.



Flights were diverted to avoid forked bolts of lightning and thousands of households were left without power after electricity lines and transformers were also hit.

The intense storm caused an “extreme weather” delay of a football game at Husky Stadium before the lightning took out the power in the stadium. The Washington State Fair was forced to close early.


“We don’t see this type of weather roll through very often,”said Art Gaebel, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Seattle.

 
A small time lapse of the electrical activity seen from my window #Malaga @Storm_Malaga

Dana Cold Drop in Malaga Capital. Electric storm.
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The most prominent events of the cloud today, September 13 South # Abu_Arish # Jazan_Aln today afternoon


VIDEO: Summer lightning storm lights up Chilliwack sky
Saturday’s thunder and lightning storm lasted about an hour
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In this photo of Saturday’s lightning storm taken by Joshua Smith, a face can be seen in the clouds to the left. Some readers’ comments on social media said it looks like U.S. President Donald Trump. (Joshua Smith)
 
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Powerful typhoon triggers blackout in southern Japan
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The Okinawa prefectural government issued an evacuation advisory to some 334,000 people. (File/AFP)

September 21, 2019 - TOKYO: A powerful typhoon hit Japan’s southern Okinawa islands Saturday, cutting power to more than 15,000 homes and grounding hundreds of flights.

Tapah — packing wind gusts of up to 180 kilometers (110 miles) per hour — is now moving north and is expected to progress through the sea separating South Korea and western Japan.

The country’s weather bureau issued warnings of heavy rains, floods and high tides, while the Okinawa prefectural government issued an evacuation advisory to some 334,000 people.

At least 18 people were injured, according to officials, while local utility company Okinawa Electric said some 9,200 households were still without power as of 7:45 p.m. (1045 GMT), down from 17,000 homes earlier in the day.

Tapah follows on the trail of Typhoon Faxai, which barrelled through Tokyo earlier this month, packing record winds that brought down power lines, brought travel chaos and disrupted Rugby World Cup preparations.

It resulted in a lengthy blackout on the outskirts of Tokyo that left tens of thousands of people without power for more than a week.
 
A couple of years ago our small city (~40K) dug trenches along all city streets for communications cables to be laid. To a one, residents could not understand why the electric lines were not buried at the same time to protect us from the storm damages and power outages we get. Answer was that they only got funding for this one thing. How much more would it have cost? Pause the project for a local public referendum perhaps? No. This was after Matthew and before Florence. Maybe we can't stop the storms but we can make our communities safer and more resilient with good planning. It just boggles the mind. I could go on and on.
 
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