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		</div><p>Hurricane Dorian posed an increasing threat to Florida as it swirled toward a possible direct hit on the US state after leaving limited damage in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.</p>
<p>Along much of Florida’s east coast, shoppers rushed to stock up on food and emergency supplies at supermarkets and hardware stores and picked the shelves clean of bottled water.</p>
<p>Lines formed at service stations as motorists topped off their tanks and filled petrol cans.</p>
<p>Forecasters said Dorian is expected to bulk up into a dangerous Category three storm, meaning winds of at least 111mph, or perhaps even a catastrophic Category four, at 130mph or more, before hitting the US on Monday somewhere between the Florida Keys and southern Georgia.</p>
<p>President Donald Trump said Florida is “going to be totally ready”.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hurricane Dorian looks like it will be hitting Florida late Sunday night. Be prepared and please follow State and Federal instructions, it will be a very big Hurricane, perhaps one of the biggest!</p>
<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1167030041303310336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 29, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>He tweeted: <em>“Be prepared and please follow State and Federal instructions, it will be a very big Hurricane, perhaps one of the biggest!”</em></p>
<p>Josefine Larrauri, a retired translator, went to a Publix supermarket in Miami only to find empty shelves in the water section and store employees unsure of when new cases would arrive.</p>
<p><em>“I feel helpless because the whole coast is threatened,”</em> she said. <em>“What’s the use of going all the way to Georgia if it can land there?”</em></p>
<p>As of late Thursday morning, Dorian was centred about 220 miles northwest of San Juan, Puerto Rico, its winds blowing at 85mph as it moved northwest at 13mph.</p>
<p>Also imperilled were the Bahamas, with Dorian’s projected track running just to the north of Great Abaco and Grand Bahama islands.</p>
<p>The storm is expected to pick up steam as it pushes out into warm waters with favourable winds, said University of Miami hurricane researcher Brian McNoldy, adding: <em>“Starting tomorrow, it really has no obstacles left in its way,”</em> he said.</p>
<p><em>“If it makes landfall as a Category three or four hurricane, that’s a big deal,”</em> he said.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">This morning I will be visiting the National Hurricane Center <a href="https://twitter.com/NHC_Atlantic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NHC_Atlantic</a> to receive a briefing on Hurricane <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dorian?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Dorian</a> as our state continues to prepare. All Floridians should have a plan in place. Don’t wait until it is too late.</p>
<p>&mdash; Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1167052579899138048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 29, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Florida governor Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency, and local governments distributed sandbags.</p>
<p>Some residents used community Facebook groups to updates on food stores getting new shipments of water.</p>
<p>At the Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral, Nasa decided to move indoors the mobile launch platform for its new mega rocket under development.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">11 AM EDT: Here are the latest Key Messages on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dorian?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Dorian</a> <a href="https://t.co/tW4KeFW0gB">https://t.co/tW4KeFW0gB</a> <a href="https://t.co/Go5d4kvSnk">pic.twitter.com/Go5d4kvSnk</a></p>
<p>&mdash; National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) <a href="https://twitter.com/NHC_Atlantic/status/1167087670847139842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 29, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Dorian blew through the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico as a Category one hurricane on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Puerto Rico seemed to be spared any heavy wind and rain, a huge relief on an island where blue tarps still cover some 30,000 homes nearly two years after Hurricane Maria.</p>
<p>The island’s 3.2 million inhabitants also depend on an unstable power grid that remains prone to outages since it was destroyed by Maria.</p>
<p>Several hundred customers were without power across Puerto Rico, said Angel Figueroa, president of a utility workers union.</p>
<p>Police said an 80-year-old man in the town of Bayamon died after he fell trying to climb to his roof to clear it of debris ahead of the storm.</p>
<p>Dorian caused an island-wide blackout in St Thomas and St John in the US Virgin Islands and scattered outages in St Croix, government spokesman Richard Motta said.</p>
<p>No serious damage was reported in the British Virgin Islands, where governor Augustus Jaspert said crews were already clearing roads and inspecting infrastructure by late Wednesday afternoon.</p>
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