{"id":6139,"date":"2019-10-28T11:39:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T15:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/?p=6139"},"modified":"2019-10-28T11:39:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T15:39:35","slug":"hurricane-dorian-devastates-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/hurricane-dorian-devastates-bahamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Dorian Devastates Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"

by: Jarred Walker,\u00a0<\/span>In Motion Staff Writer<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dorian brings high tides and unusually wild ocean activity to the Flagler Beach Pier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The massive devastation caused by category five hurricane Dorian has the Bahamas in ruins. As of Sep. 17, at least <\/span>6<\/span>0 are dead, thousands are missing and 76,000 are homeless.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dorian is the worst hurricane the Bahamas has ever seen. <\/span>With communities and islands completely leveled, the people who did manage to survive the horrific natural disaster will never live life the same<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The system began to form on Aug. 24 in the southeast Atlantic Ocean. It slowly began to creep its way west <\/span>toward the Lesser Antilles where it officially became a category one hurricane on Aug. 28. A lot of these small islands were <\/span>affected<\/span>, but not completely devastated. It was not until the storm began to greatly intensify over the next few days and head straight <\/span>for<\/span> the Bahamas and United States.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>On Sep. 1, Dorian officially <\/span>hit<\/span> the Bahamas at category five strength with winds reaching 150mph. Not only <\/span>was the destruction enormous<\/span>, but it was also due to the fact the storm started to greatly slow down and <\/span>hover over the<\/span> island<\/span>s<\/span> for a few days before<\/span> it began to shift upward. This was due to a cold front and pressure changes. <\/span>Finally, the storm began to weaken and move northeast just off the coast of Florida<\/span>. It<\/span> then<\/span> hit the east coast of the U.S. and even Canada. Dorian officially dissipated on Sep. 10. This was the second-strongest landfall hurricane ever recorded (\u201cLabor Day\u201d hurricane <\/span>in <\/span>1935).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hurricane preparedness is imperative when it comes to situations like this. Everybody in the potential target cone must gather essentials, make home modifications or evacuate, if necessary, before the storm hits<\/span>,<\/span> in order to potentially survive. The Daytona Beach area, among others, <\/span>was<\/span> extremely ready in case of emergency. Houses and businesses were boarded up from street to street. Grocery stores were selling out of products and having to be re-stocked <\/span>by the hour.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Even Daytona State College made massive arrangements for the storm<\/span> such as closing the campus for four days.<\/span> Louie Mercer, the Director\/Chair of the School of Emergency Services, explained, \u201c<\/span>We monitored the storm daily with the National Weather Service. In addition to that, the college implemented their Critical Incident Management Team briefing. This team includes a group of leaders at the college who are administrators, faculty and staff. They helped make the decisions on when the college should close, if it should close, whether or not <\/span>the athletic events sh<\/span>ould be canceled\/postponed.<\/span> It went smoothly, helped us exercise our communication and test our mass notification system<\/span>,<\/span> among many other things. We work<\/span> really<\/span> hard.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Many businesses<\/span> in the area<\/span> are doing their part in order to help gather donations sent<\/span> directly to the Bahamas relief efforts. One of these businesses <\/span>is <\/span>Publix<\/span> Supermarkets<\/span> which has<\/span> partnered with the Red Cross. Assistant customer service manager, Nicole <\/span>Gokey<\/span>, shared, \u201c<\/span>I love it. I think that this is one of the things Publix stands for<\/span> and<\/span> it\u2019s great that Publix is taking th<\/span>e<\/span> time to help those in need. <\/span>We ask our customers through the registers<\/span> and o<\/span>ur store <\/span>location <\/span>has already raised multiple thousand dollars over the last few weeks.\u201d In addition to the<\/span> customer<\/span> donations, Publix has d<\/span>onated $250,000 of its own money<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Many other local organizations<\/span>,<\/span> such as Tuff Turf Landscaping, Odyssey Travel and Coastal <\/span>T<\/span>attoo<\/span> are accepting donations<\/span>. If you would like to donate online, please visit redcross.org.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by: Jarred Walker,\u00a0In Motion Staff Writer\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The massive devastation caused by category five hurricane Dorian has the Bahamas in ruins. As of Sep. 17, at least 60 are dead, thousands are missing and 76,000 are homeless.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dorian is the worst hurricane the Bahamas has ever seen. With communities Continue reading Hurricane Dorian Devastates Bahamas<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cover-story","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6141,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139\/revisions\/6141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}