Vicious winds batter Florida as Hurricane Dorian's expected landfall imminent
- 5 years ago
The moment is captured as Melbourne, Florida is battered by strong gusts from Hurricane Dorian Tuesday (September 3), blowing palm trees akimbo.
"It's a ghost town in the shopping plaza, [when it's] a usually busy place," said the filmer, Cassie.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center says the Category 2 storm was centered at about 5 p.m. EDT Tuesday about 105 miles (170 kilometers) east of Vero Beach, Florida. Top sustained winds are at 110 mph (175 kph) and Dorian is moving to the northwest at 6 mph (9 kph).
Forecasters say Dorian is expected to move dangerously close to the coast of Florida and Georgia from Tuesday night through Wednesday night before menacing the coast of the Carolinas Thursday and Friday.
The hurricane center has adjusted its forecast tracks closer to the coasts of South and North Carolina, noting “a track that close to the coast, even if landfall does not occur, is likely to bring dangerous winds, life-threatening storm surge, and flooding rains across the eastern portions of the Carolinas," reports say.
"It's a ghost town in the shopping plaza, [when it's] a usually busy place," said the filmer, Cassie.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center says the Category 2 storm was centered at about 5 p.m. EDT Tuesday about 105 miles (170 kilometers) east of Vero Beach, Florida. Top sustained winds are at 110 mph (175 kph) and Dorian is moving to the northwest at 6 mph (9 kph).
Forecasters say Dorian is expected to move dangerously close to the coast of Florida and Georgia from Tuesday night through Wednesday night before menacing the coast of the Carolinas Thursday and Friday.
The hurricane center has adjusted its forecast tracks closer to the coasts of South and North Carolina, noting “a track that close to the coast, even if landfall does not occur, is likely to bring dangerous winds, life-threatening storm surge, and flooding rains across the eastern portions of the Carolinas," reports say.