Hurricane Dorian
Dania Beach, FL- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) helped launch the “Anglers for the Bahamas” with Bass Pro Shops founder Johnny Morris, an initiative to support the storm-battered people of the northern Bahamas.
Two days after touring the storm-damaged northern Bahamas, Senator Marco Rubio (R) sent a letter to USAID Administrator Mark Green, “urging him” to ask the Department of Defense to reposition the USNS Comfort from the Caribbean to The Bahamas.
Opa-Locka- U.S. Senators Rick Scott (R) and Marco Rubio (R) held a press conference at the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station shortly after conducting surveying the hurricane-battered northern Bahamian islands on Friday.
After touring the northern Bahamas with Senator Marco Rubio (R) and Gov. Ron DeSantis, days after Hurricane Dorian made landfall, U.S. Senator Rick Scott (R) told reporters on Friday that the U.S. needed to “stop funding that are our enemies” and allocate those dollars to hurricane relief for our “good friends.”
Hurricane Dorian has leveled The Bahamas leaving death and destruction across the northern islands of that nation.
Rubio, Scott ask Trump to "suspend certain visa requirements" for Bahamians
As Hurricane Dorian made landfall in the northern Bahamas, and all but destroyed cities like Marsh Harbor, Florida state Rep. Shevrin Jones (D) became the central figure of the storm and it wasn’t because decided to go outside and brave the storm conditions as many weather reporters do.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R) came to the defense of President Donald Trump when London Mayor Sadiq Khan questioned the president’s Hurricane Dorian preparedness by playing a round of golf shortly before the story made landfall.
In response to Hurricane Dorian’s path of destruction through the northern Bahamas, the Department of Homeland Security has ordered U.S. Customs and Border Patrol air assets to help assist in search and rescue efforts for the Bahamas.
With the northern Bahamas having been all-but annihilated by Hurricane Dorian, there is some 2350 Urban search and rescue personnel spread around the state of Florida ready to jump into action and assist once they get the green light.
Natural disasters, especially Hurricanes, bring out the best and worst in Americans. Neighbors come out to help each other, but oftentimes, some of those neighbors are out to make a quick buck by pulling a scam.
Florida is ready if Hurricane Dorian makes landfall, but officials are not taking any chances and are continuing to tell Floridians to heed their warnings and prepare for the worst case scenario.
With Hurricane Dorian slamming The Bahamas as a Category 5 storm with winds at 185 mph and gusts up to 220 mph, all hands on deck in Florida for a potential landfall somewhere along the east coast of the state.
According to the latest projected forecast paths, Hurricane Dorian may not hit Florida, but in the event that it does, help is already on the way from Texas Governor Greg Abbot (R), who has already deployed its Texas Task Force 1’s Type III at the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
It took a force of nature to get Florida’s entire congressional delegation to come together on an issue they have no choice but to agree on.
With Hurricane Dorian looming over Florida and stealing most news headlines, President Trump’s announcement that his administration has created the U.S. Space Command got very little coverage.
Just as scientists and meteorologists forecast Hurricane Dorian to become a major storm that will probably impact Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis proactively declared a state of emergency to give local authorities ample time to get all of the resources in place.
Every hurricane season, especially when an actual storm is threatening Florida, elected politicians become quasi-weathermen and women and begin to post storm preparedness lists and minute-to-minute storm update reports.