but it's Bruce here with travel if Bruce it's September the 1st and here is the
latest update on Hurricane Dorian the storm is now classified as a category 5
hurricane which means that winds are anywhere from a hundred and sixty to a
hundred and eighty five miles an hour at the center of this disturbance she is
now in the northern part of the Bahamas heading slowly towards Florida problem
is she's barely moving and she's causing a lot of havoc a lot of rain being
dumped you can see here by these little arrows all the cruise ships have bugged
out of the Florida coastline they're all heading out there's no where none of
them are gonna be near this hurricane and so no passengers are in danger here
the issue though is where this hurricane is now where it's gonna be in the next
couple of days it's hardly gonna move it's basically going to a 45 miles an
hour and that little arrow I have flashing up there that is where the
Grand Bahama shipyard is this is owned between Carnival and Royal Caribbean and
the Bahamian government and the Royal the Grand Bahamian shipyard is smack dab
in the middle of the Hurricanes path and it could be that this facility could
sustain major major damage it's already got a problem the drydock number two was
badly damaged when the Oasis of the Seas had her accident a few years ago a few
months ago and is still out of commission so if the entire shipyard
might be in trouble here in Freeport on the beach
this particular resort right here has been purchased by Royal Caribbean it's
going to be modified and turned into a bit of a CoCo Key Resort it could be
damaged these are pictures from the Hurricanes that I think Matthew the last
time Freeport got hit and he can tell the kind of devastation that really is
about to occur this is the kind of scene we're going to see unfortunately through
a whole area of the Bahamas problem now is the workers who work at the shipyard
they may not be able to get to work even if the shipyard is up and running
because their homes have been destroyed so this island is in for a real mess
going forward we'll have to see how this plays up by the
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the white dot you can see where the hurricane is now and you can see that
purple blob that is where most of the devastation will occur as far as winds
and here's another problem cruise lines are gonna have the private islands I've
talked about this a bit already but take a look here at the top of this picture
you'll notice Coco key greats Turkey and Castaway Cay these are the three islands
run by Disney Norwegian and Royal Caribbean Coco key just opened three or
four months ago it is possible that being in the eye of the storm and with
160 to 180 mile an hour winds we may have the island look like this like it
looked while it was under construction she might get wiped out
and the same with castaway key castaway key here might be totally devastated by
this storm and it could take quite some time for Disney Royal Caribbean and of
course our friends of Norwegian with get with their great story to get them all
back up and running they could be down for months
we just don't know now another thing that's going on is the storm is going to
work its way west towards the coastline of Florida and then head north that's
what all the weather forecasters are saying the storm is gonna be with us for
another week right now as I am speaking to you the grandeur of the Seas is
docked in Baltimore this ship was loaded up with passengers yesterday afternoon
it left for 30 minutes came back to the harbor unloaded her passengers they
claim that the ship has got mechanical problems and they canceled their cruise
I kind of wonder if that is really the case because this ship was destined to
head to Bermuda for a five-day vacation the problem is that the the grandeur of
the Seas was going to run smack dab into the hurricane on the way back and face
this kind of nonsense here here's the route that she was going to take right
now she's in Baltimore she's canceled her five-day cruise they're not moving
at all I don't know what kind of credits have been offered to the passengers who
were really inconvenience would not be happy if I traveled all the
way to Baltimore to get on the cruise ship and half an hour later was told
sorry folks the cruise is off that is not cool anyway that is the story
there's the track of a storm over the next week we'll keep following it stay
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bye for now