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Article: DENNIS BLOWS INTO BAHAMAS, THREATENS SOUTHEASTERN U.S.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- August 28, 1999
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Hurricane Dennis buffeted fragile Bahamian islands with gale-force winds yesterday and kicked up high surf hundreds of miles away off North Carolina's Outer Banks. Forecasters warned it could strike the east coast of Florida as soon as today.
The governor of North Carolina put state troopers on alert and National Guard troops prepared for storm duty in South Carolina as a hurricane watch was posted for Florida's eastern coast.
Gale-force winds whipped around Harbour Island in the Bahamas and waves from a choppy Atlantic crashed over roadways on the island of Eleuthera, residents said. Locals and tourists alike huddled behind boarded-up windows, said ...