From NBC News:
NBC NEWS - “Catastrophic” Category 5 Hurricane Dorian inched across the northern Bahamas early Monday, lashing the archipelago with 200 mph wind gusts and flooding the low-lying islands with a storm surge of up to 23 feet above normal.
Parts of Grand Bahama Island were being "lashed incessantly" by destructive hurricane-force winds, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said early Monday.
When the hurricane made landfall on neighboring Great Abaco Island on Sunday at 2 p.m., Dorian's maximum sustained winds were 185 mph — an Atlantic hurricane record matched only by a storm that struck the Florida Keys in 1935.
Although top sustained wind speeds have decreased to 165 mph early Monday, the hurricane center still called it "a life-threatening situation."
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