Hurricane Dorian is starting to
weaken as it skirts past the Carolinas - but still brings the risk of flooding,
high winds, heavy and rains. Communities in the Bahamas are coming to terms
with the scale of destruction left by the storm, with thousands of people in
need of aid after their homes were destroyed. The slow-moving hurricane was the
most powerful storm to hit the Bahamas since records began, bringing sustained
winds of up to 185mph at its peak, storm surges and flooding. At least 30
people died as a result of the storm in the Abaco Islands and Grand Bahama, in
the north of the Bahamas archipelago, but numbers are expected to be much
higher as hundreds of people are still missing. Dorian was a category five
hurricane when it struck the Bahamas, but has since been downgraded to a category
one, still powerful with winds of around 90mph. The National Hurricane Center
says Dorian is slowly weakening as it moves towards the north east and is
expected to become a post-tropical cyclone with hurricane-force winds as it
approaches Nova Scotia on Saturday. At category five, Dorian was the
second-strongest Atlantic hurricane on record, with some gusts reaching 200mph.
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