The tropical storm nicole Forced evacuations to the Bahamas on Wednesday threatened to turn into a rare November hurricane headed to Florida, the closure of airports and Disney World. Evacuation orders were issued which included former President Donald Trump’s club in Mar-a-Lago.
hundreds of people sought refuge in the northwestern Bahamas before the arrival of the storm, which had already caused storm surges on the roads of Hutchinson Island, in Martin County, Florida
The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said the eye of the storm is wide landed in Great Abaco around noon, with maximum sustained winds of 112.5 kilometers per hour.
At noon on this Wednesday, The storm vortex was 300 kilometers east of West Palm Beach, Florida, moving west 19 kilometers as tropical storm winds spread 740 kilometers from the center in some directions .
“We predict it will become a hurricane as it approaches the northwestern Bahamas and to remain a hurricane on its way to the east coast of Florida, ”said Daniel Brown, an NHC specialist in Miami.
Nicole is the first storm to hit the Bahamas since Hurricane Dorian in 2019. Meteorologists expect Nicole’s eye to hit Florida late Wednesday and Thursday go to Georgia.
In the Bahamas, authorities reported that more than 520 people had attended the quasi 30 open shelters. Floods and power outages have been reported in Abaco.
“We ask the community take it seriously”, expressed Andrea Newbold, of the Disaster Management Unit. “Don’t wait until the last minute.”
Residents of various Florida counties such as Flagler, Palm Beach, Martin and Volusia was ordered to evacuate the islets, low-lying areas and mobile homes starting Wednesday morning.
Disney World and other related theme parks announced they would close their doors this Wednesday and most likely they would not reopen on Thursday.
The Palm Beach International Airport closed Wednesday morning and Daytona Beach International Airport said it would suspend operations at 12:30. Orlando International Airportthe seventh busiest in the United States, will close Wednesday at 4pm. Further south, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and Miami International Airport, where the entire city is on high alert, have reported some cancellations and delaysbut it planned to continue to function .
At a press conference in Tallahassee, the governor of Florida Ron De Santishe said the greatest concern was the winds and that significant blackouts could occur, but that the 16,000 public service workers were ready, as well as 600 National Guard members and seven rescue teams. “It will affect large parts of the state Florida around the clock, ”DeSantis added of the meteor .
Sea to lakethe club where the former president lives Donald Trump, it is located in an area of Palm Beach County under evacuation order, being approximately 400 meters from the ocean. The main buildings stand on a promontory about 15 feet above sea level, and the property has survived several major hurricanes since it was built nearly a century ago.
in any case, the resort security office He did not respond to inquiries from the AP agency that the complex had been evacuated. By law, nor there is a penalty for ignoring an evacuation order, but rescuers will not respond if conditions become too dangerous.
Source: Clarin
