It will be a very long time before anyone forgets the name Dorian and it’s been said that the National Hurricane Center will most likely permanently retire the name Dorian from their 6-year rotating name list.
This monster storm was named on August 24th and passed by us on the east end of Long Island two weeks later! Moving at a glacial rate, Dorian destroyed the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama, threatened Florida, unleashed a barrage of tornados in the Carolinas, and flooded poor Ocracoke, after which it kindly accelerated brushing the East End with only 7-10 foot surf. Thinking it was finally past, I was stunned to hear Dorian made landfall yet again in Nova Scotia, as a ‘hurricane-force post-tropical cyclone’ leaving half a million people without power, toppling a crane and damaging several apartment buildings. Did this monster die?
As these storms get stronger and stronger causing more and more damage and destruction, all of us along the east coast know that it could happen to us. Our hearts break for those who have lost everything, our hands reach out to help any way we can, for we know ... « There but for the grace of God ... »
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