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

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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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