A storm chaser went silent as Dorian hit the Bahamas. He re-emerged with a harrowing story.

[mfcorey1]

Josh Morgerman recorded the storm’s menacing progress by the minute.

At 8:17 on Sunday morning, he said the gusts of wind were getting scary at the schoolhouse in Marsh Harbour on the Bahamas’ Great Abaco, where he was hunkered down, waiting for one of the most destructive hurricanes in island history to make landfall.

“I feel like a rocket is about to take off,” he wrote to his 80,000 Twitter followers, amassed during his long career as a tempest chaser known for capturing harrowing eyewitness video. “This is gonna get ugly.”

As the cyclone known as Dorian closed in, he prepared to be cut off from the Internet, from the rest of the world: “this is possibly the last you’ll hear from me for a long while,” he warned.
At 11:15, Morgerman reported that his building was near the hurricane’s eyewall, its most destructive area where winds blow fastest. He and six others had barricaded themselves in a concrete room, pushing chairs against the door to keep it closed.

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[Hortensis]

1. News reports also saying the almost stationary eye allowed some people

to go out and save others in the water, in collapsed buildings, etc., and abandon shelters constructed for a different reality before it resumed over those spots.

“By far the most intense cyclone I’ve witnessed in 28 years of chasing. Thought I was playing it safe by riding it out in a solid-concrete school on a hill in Marsh Harbour. Thought wrong. Winds pounded the building with the force of a thousand sledgehammers.”

Game changed.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

2. This is his Twitter page - you can read it all. He emerged alive.

Josh Morgerman

Link: https://twitter.com/iCyclone

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[in2herbs]

3. Are all houses going to have to be built as underground houses in the future? If so,

that doesn't answer the problem of storm surges and flooding. No residence will be safe from a hurricane's force in the future.

[WhiteTara]

4. I hope most of those people decide to move

and that a climate relocation fund has been set up to help climate refugees relocate. Chaos is coming.

[Roland99]

5. Glad he survived (and the kids!)