Of those onboard, 28 were Americans. S. citizens and five from Poland.
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Joaquin is considered a major hurricane, the second this season. “We have all of this tropical moisture, and it’s going to get sucked into the Carolinas, into Virginia, maybe even into Georgia, and that will cause flooding”.
This report contains material from Reuters and the Associated Press. The ship went missing when Joaquin was a Category 4 storm.
The Coast Guard has sent out multiple search parties, including two Air Force planes, but to no avail.
The Coast Guard said it last heard from the ship at 7:30 a.m. Thursday when it reported it had lost power to its propulsion system and was leaning to its left, or port side, by 15 degrees. Joaquin destroyed houses, uprooted trees and unleashed heavy flooding as it hurled torrents of rain, and officials were investigating reports of shelters being damaged and flooded.
In the coastal communities that Hurricane Sandy devastated three years ago this month, the prospect of another hurricane roaring up the Eastern Seaboard dredged up mounds of anxiety on Thursday.
“People don’t panic too much”. Having said that, it is important to realize that no model is correct all the time, and there have been instances in the past where the GFS has outperformed the ECMWF. Streets were largely deserted as people rem…
“It looks like it’s going to make its closest pass to us late Monday night into Tuesday, before ripping its way into the North Atlantic Ocean”, Wankum said.
No casualties have so far been reported in the Bahamas. “God controls the storm”.
Joaquin, an “extremely dangerous” Category Four hurricane, lashed the central Bahamas with 130 mile (215 kilometer) per hour winds early on Friday as jittery residents of the U.S. east coast battened down, fearing they may be next.
The center of the slow-moving storm was located a few 25 miles (40 kilometers) northeast of San Salvador, Bahamas, the NHC said in its latest update.
Joaquin strengthened significantly Thursday and continues to hover near the Bahamas.
Wind and rain from Hurricane Joaquin affect Nassau, Bahamas, October 2, 2015. Regardless, it’s expected to cause torrential downpours along the East Coast and bring flooding to many areas.
It described Joaquin as “a unsafe Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale”.
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Cabinet had earlier agreed that all schools throughout the Bahamas would remain closed on Friday adding that only essential government businesses would remain open.
