As Hurricane Dorian comes perilously close to mainland US, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster announced mandatory evacuation orders for the state's coastline, which will go into effect on Monday
- The order covers some 830,000 residents, many of whom will be evacuating their homes for the fourth time in four years
- Hurricane Dorian intensified into a Category 5 storm early Sunday morning with record-setting gusts exceeding 200mph
- Dorian made landfall in the Bahamas on Elbow Cay in the Abacos Islands at 12.40pm ET then again at 2pm ET, bringing with it 'catastrophic' conditions
- Video posted to social media by residents of Abaco in the Bahamas shows homes missing parts of their roofs, utility lines down and cars overturned
- 'You cannot tell the difference as to the beginning of the street versus where the ocean begins,' Bahamanian Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said on Sunday
- As of 8pm ET, Dorian was centered about 155 miles east of West Palm Beach, Florida
Hurricane Dorian strengthened to Category 3 on Wednesday night as it headed up the coast of Carolinas
- Forecasters said Thursday Hurricane Dorian may bring 'potentially life threatening storm surge' of up to 8ft
- There could also be up to a foot of rainfall across Eastern North Carolina, raising concerns of flash flooding
- SC Emergency Management Division reported that more than 202,000 people are without power in the state
- Dorian may get closest to Charleston at 1pm Thursday, which is during high tide and could worsen flooding
- At least 20 people have died across the United States and the Bahamas from the devastating hurricane
_________________________________________________________________________Bahamian government says official death toll has risen from 30 to 43, though officials expect the number to significantly jump
- Severe flooding in aftermath of Hurricane Dorian has slowed rescue and recovery efforts throughout the archipelago
- Hundreds of residents who had their houses obliterated waited at the port in Grand Abaco on Friday in hopes of getting off the island
- Locals say that the stench of dead bodies is evident as parts of the Bahamas 'ain't livable for nobody'
- Bahamian cruise line is ferrying 1,400 evacuees to the port of West Palm Beach, Florida on Saturday morning
Hurricane Dorian is scheduled to make landfall near Halifax, Nova Scotia at around 7pm Eastern time on Saturday
- Dorian strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane with winds exceeding 100 miles per hour
- Canadian authorities say that hundreds of thousands of residents in the Atlantic provinces were without power due to wind gusts and rain
- Dorian's outer bands started lashing southern New Brunswick and mainland Nova Scotia with strong winds and heavy rain
- The last hurricanes to make landfall in Canada were Hurricane Igor and Hurricane Earl in September, 2010