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Jumat, 06 September 2019

Hurricane Dorian lashes North Carolina with strong winds, rain and storm surges - CNN

Earlier in the week, Dorian flattened homes and wiped out neighborhoods in the Bahamas, leaving at least 30 people dead. It then closed in on the southeastern coast of the United States, where five deaths have been blamed on the storm so far.

Before it lost some of its strength early Friday, Dorian caused flooding in parts of the Carolinas and spawned a number of tornadoes, officials said. More than 343,000 people were left in the dark in South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia, according to poweroutage.us.

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In eastern North Carolina, Dorian is producing wind gusts near hurricane-force. The state is seeing 4 to 8 inches of rain with some local totals of as much as 10 inches, CNN meteorologist Haley Brink said.

It's weaker in strength but not in impact

Though the storm has weakened from a Category 2 into a strong Category 1, Brink said there's not much difference for North Carolina in terms of the impact of strong winds and storm surge.

As of 5 a.m., Dorian was 25 miles east of Cape Lookout, North Carolina, with sustained winds of 90 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.

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"Dorian has North Carolina in its sights," Gov. Roy Cooper said Thursday. "We need people to hunker down and stay safe. We don't need people leaving their homes."

More than 10 million people are under hurricane or tropical storm warnings Friday, which is forecast to be Dorian's last day on the US coast.

Waves pound the Bogue Inlet Fishing Pier in Emerald Isle, N.C.,as Hurricane Dorian moves north off the coast.

A series of watches and warnings

The storm surge began late Thursday night along the North Carolina and southeast Virginia coasts.

A hurricane warning is in effect from Little River Inlet to the North Carolina/Virginia border, the hurricane center said. A tornado watch was in effect until 7 a.m. Friday for the North Carolina coast from just above Wilmington to Virginia Beach, according to the National Weather Service.

Thursday, nearly two dozen tornadoes were reported from the outer bands of Dorian. They toppled mobile homes and left debris strewn for acres.

Emerald Isle town employees work to clear the road after a tornado hit Emerald Isle N.C.

Tornadoes along the coast

Tornadoes are common in the thunderstorm bands of hurricanes and tropical storms.

North Carolina resident Byron Cox was in his mobile home in Emerald Isle when the tornado approached. His home was still standing, but his father's was destroyed, he said Thursday.

"I remember hearing a loud noise. The next thing I know, the trailer started shaking. ... It shook probably 10-15 seconds, real hard," Cox, 37, said.

"All of a sudden I didn't feel it (any) more. I looked outside, and the tornado ... (was) going through the back. ... Debris flying everywhere. Never saw anything like this in my entire life."

The tornadoes extended into South Carolina, where firefighters say one damaged an unspecified number of vehicles and buildings in North Myrtle Beach.

Wayne White captured video of the funnel cloud there. He said he was checking on some properties he manages when he saw it.

"I saw the circular clouds and was going to take a little video, and the funnel came out of nowhere," he tweeted.

South Carolina turns to recovery

Charleston's mayor says that efforts to recover begin Friday.

"Yes, today was Dorian Day in Charleston, and I am happy to bid him farewell," Mayor John Tecklenburg said Thursday. "To the hundreds of officials, and the outstanding citizens of Charleston, thank you. Tomorrow, we all unite as Team Charleston to recover."

Authorities in Charleston are working to address power outages, downed trees and flooded roadways.

CNN's Drew Griffin reported from Wilmington, North Carolina, and Madeline Holcombe and Steve Almasy reported from Atlanta.

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‘We Have Moved On Without Him’: Robert Mugabe’s Star Had Faded in Zimbabwe - The New York Times

HARARE, Zimbabwe — For years, the eventual death of Robert Mugabe, the leader who held Zimbabwe in his grip for decades after its independence in 1980, had obsessed his countrymen.

As he pushed into his 90s — growing visibly frailer by the week, stumbling ever more frequently at public events, his once eloquent speech becoming sluggish — people wondered, with a mixture of dread and hope, when “the old man” would be gone.

But on a warm summer morning in Harare on Friday, as Zimbabweans woke up to the news that their former leader had died at a hospital in Singapore, the reaction was muted. Many in the center of the capital saw his death through the prism of their difficult daily lives — not through the lens of history that Mr. Mugabe’s fellow African leaders emphasized.

“I’m sad that Mugabe has died with the economy,” said Agnes Humure, 37, a shopkeeper rushing to work in Harare’s central business district. “I personally don’t know who is going to wake it up.”

[Our obituary of Robert Mugabe, who as leader of independent Zimbabwe traded the mantle of liberator for the armor of a tyrant.]

President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe was once Mr. Mugabe’s right-hand man. — CreditZinyange Auntony for The New York Times

The reaction was subdued in part because the once supremely powerful Mr. Mugabe had become increasingly irrelevant in the two years since he was expelled from power. Outmaneuvered by his successor and onetime right-hand man, Emmerson Mnangagwa, and growing rapidly weaker, Mr. Mugabe had been reduced to a ghostly presence in the country that his personality had dominated for nearly four decades.

“Mugabe’s death has come at a time we have moved on without him,” said Richmond Dhamara, a 42-year-old street fruit vendor. “I don’t think he will be missed that much, because he is the same guy with the people who succeeded him — cruel.”

Mr. Mugabe’s reputation was sturdier elsewhere in Africa. Even after the worst excesses of his long rule, Mr. Mugabe drew standing ovations at African gatherings, where fellow leaders praised him as the last of the great liberation leaders.

“Words cannot convey the magnitude of the loss as former President Mugabe was an elder statesman, a freedom fighter and a Pan-Africanist who played a major role in shaping the interests of the African continent,” President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya said on Friday.

In central Harare, where the presidency and other branches of government are located, Friday felt like a regular morning. People scrambled to work in dilapidated taxi minivans from the suburbs. Street hawkers were setting up their wares on sidewalks as part of the thriving informal economy that has replaced the collapsing formal sector.

No soldiers could be seen in the area, only the usual police officers — a clear sign that the Zimbabwean government did not regard Mr. Mugabe’s death as a political or security risk.

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For most Zimbabweans, their emotions had reached a peak with Mr. Mugabe’s political death nearly two years ago. Countless people celebrated in Harare and across the country at the time, in a short-lived euphoria that faded with the ever worsening economy and disappointment over Mr. Mnangagwa’s tightfisted rule.

In many ways, Mr. Mugabe’s actual death was anticlimactic.

“I wish Mugabe should just have died in power, because things as they are now are much worse than before he was removed,” Jeremiah Gumbi, a 26-year-old money changer, said at his usual workplace in central Harare.

Even a supporter of ZANU-PF, Mr. Mugabe’s political party, on his way to party headquarters — where the national flag was flying at half-staff — was far from effusive in his comments.

“Old Bob is our hero,” said the party supporter, Tinago Mhanga, 38. “Although he messed up the economy, he is the father of the nation, even in death.”

Mr. Mugabe had spent the last two years mostly in quiet isolation after being deposed in a coup in November 2017. For a time, he was effectively put under house arrest with his family in his mansion in a leafy Harare neighborhood. He was regularly allowed to fly to Singapore, where he had sought medical treatment for years.

But an uneasy and unspoken tension persisted between Mr. Mugabe and Mr. Mnangagwa, the eternal right-hand man who had ultimately turned on his patron. For Mr. Mnangagwa, dealing with his predecessor was a delicate issue because of their long ties and shared political party. Mr. Mnangagwa generally treated the elder politician generously, hoping that Mr. Mugabe would support him, or at least stay quiet.

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Mr. Mugabe — as wily in retirement as he had been during his nearly four decades in power — remained strategically quiet. But whenever he felt that Mr. Mnangagwa was not treating him with the respect that he was due, Mr. Mugabe made it known.

At least once, his allies summoned foreign journalists based in nearby Johannesburg for a meeting inside his Harare home. His wife, Grace, helped the journalists slip into the house, past soldiers under orders to prevent Mr. Mugabe from talking to the news media.

Most significantly, during elections in July last year, Mr. Mugabe publicly expressed his admiration for the opposition candidate, Nelson Chamisa, the leader of ZANU-PF’s fiercest and historic rival, the Movement for Democratic Change.

But despite the hopes and prodding of his wife, Grace, and other allies now fallen out of favor, including the former information minister, Jonathan Moyo, Mr. Mugabe had become a political nonentity.

Little was heard from him in the past year as he grew frailer and frailer. Instead, his sons — famous partygoers whose public misbehavior forced their parents to move them from Dubai to Johannesburg in recent years — continued to make headlines.

What will become of his wife, Grace, is unclear. Mr. Mugabe’s second wife, she is reviled inside Zimbabwe and, more important, inside the ruling party. Many of Mr. Mugabe’s longtime allies blamed her for her husband’s political excesses in recent years and for associating a once famously parsimonious man with the kind of luxury shopping and traveling that she enjoys.

In the year or so before her husband fell from power, Ms. Mugabe had sought to position herself as his successor and sideline Mr. Mnangagwa. That ultimately triggered the coup. Now, with her husband gone, Ms. Mugabe has little or no protection left in Zimbabwe.

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Hurricane Dorian weather: Tracking Hurricane Dorian - Where is hurricane now - NOAA latest - Express.co.uk

After smashing into the Bahamas and lingering over the islands, unleashing torrential rain, hurricane-force winds and deadly storm surge for more than 24 hours, hurricane Dorian is now travelling along the southeastern US coast. According to poweroutage.us more than 167,000 people are without power across Georgia and South Carolina, with the majority of outages in the latter state. Torrential rain could cause deadly flash floods, and residents have been urged to heed evacuation warnings.

As of NOAA’s latest update at 2am EDT (7am BST) Dorian was producing wind gusts near hurricane-force over eastern North Carolina.

The hurricane was located around 30 miles south-southwest of Cape Lookout, North Carolina, and approximately 55 miles east of Wilmington, North Carolina.

Dorian is moving toward the northeast near 15mph and is packing wind speeds of 90mph with higher gusts.

On the forecast track, the centre of Dorian will move near or over the coast of North Carolina during the next several hours.

The centre should move to the southeast of extreme southeastern New England tonight and Saturday morning, and then across Nova Scotia late Saturday or Saturday night.

This makes Dorian a category one hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.

Rainfall is impacting the coast of the Carolinas, with hurricane conditions likely over the area later today.

Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 60 miles (95 km) from the centre of the storm and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 195 miles (315 km).

Dorian is expected to remain a powerful hurricane over the next few days as it tracks northward along the southeastern US coast.

According to NOAA’s latest update, “tropical storm conditions are currently affecting portions of the Georgia and South Carolina coasts.

“Hurricane conditions are expected along portions of the South Carolina coast later this morning.

“Tropical storm conditions will begin along the coast of North Carolina within the next couple of hours, with hurricane conditions beginning later today.

“Tropical storm conditions are possible over portions of southeastern Massachusetts by late Friday or early Saturday.”

Summary of storm warnings and watches in effect

A Storm Surge Warning is in effect for

Wrightsville Beach NC to Poquoson VA
Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds
Neuse and Pamlico Rivers

Hampton Roads

A Hurricane Warning is in effect for
South Santee River to the North Carolina/Virginia border
Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds

A Hurricane Watch is in effect for

Nova Scotia

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for

North Carolina/Virginia border to Fenwick Island DE
Chesapeake Bay from Drum Point southward
Tidal Potomac south of Cobb Island
Woods Hole to Sagamore Beach MA
Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard MA

A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for

Prince Edward Island
Magdalen Islands
Fundy National Park to Shediac.
Francois to Boat Harbour.

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