South Carolina orders hundreds of thousands to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Dorian. It covers all of Beaufort and Charleston counties and parts of the rest of the state's coastal counties — all told, about 830,000 people, state officials said.
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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster acknowledged the difficulty in moving so many people out of the area at one time, but said he couldn't risk undertaking the evacuations in stages. The state Public Safety and Transportation departments said they would reverse the direction of traffic along evacuation routes to ease the flow.A map shows areas under mandatory evacuation orders starting at noon Monday along the South Carolina coast in preparation for Hurricane Dorian.
North Carolina, meanwhile, also"has to take this storm seriously," Gov. Roy Cooper said Sunday."Be ready. It might be far away, butDorian made landfall Sunday afternoon with estimated sustained surface winds of 185 mph and gusts reaching 220 mph at Elbow Cay, Abacos, in the northern Bahamas. The power of the storm was second only to that of Hurricane Allen in 1980, with its 190 mph winds.
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