Dorian has trapped 800 people on an island and 200,000 homes without electricity | Chronic

Hurricane Dorian landed Friday in North Carolina, but it continues to favor heavy rains that have blocked some 800 people on an island in the state and more than 200,000 people without electricity. they moved to Canada by the east coast.

Weakened after crossing the Bahamas but still with dangerous winds of 150 km / h, Dorian caused floods and floods after arriving early that day in the Cape Hatteras region, at the southern end of the country. a long island-barrier Banks outside

"We are very worried because hundreds of people are stranded on the island of Ocraco-ke", southwest of Cape Hatteras, said the governor of North Carolina, Roy Cooper, at a press conference reproduced by the agency EFE.

"The storm is very intense over there, I do not think rescue teams can do it now, but they are ready to act as soon as they can."he added.

Cooper estimated that about 800 people may have been trapped on this island of nearly 25 square kilometers and recommended people to climb to the highest point of their homes to avoid being dragged into possible floods .

In just two hours, the waves of the Atlantic Ocean have exceeded two meters in height and flooded the roads and homes of the island.

"It's an absolute disaster"he said Peter Vankevich, the director of the main newspaper of the region, the observer of Ocracoke.

"It's impossible to exaggerate the impact of the storm here, and I've heard that in Hatteras, the situation was even worse."added Vankevich at the Washington Post.

In North Carolina, more than 200,000 people were deprived of electricity due to falling trees and utility poles and another 5,000 were evacuated to shelters after leaving their homes; 80 roads and highways are still flooded, according to state authorities.

This afternoon, the storm was heading for Chesapeake Bay, an estuary that divides the states of Virginia and Maryland.

"Hazardous winds and cyclical winds are expected to blow on the shores of North Carolina, southeastern Virginia and southern Chesapeake Bay over the next few hours.", the National Hurricane Center (CNH) said in its latest newsletter.

It is expected that Dorian, traveling at a speed of 34 km / h, is rubbing between tonight and next Saturday in southeast New England, Mbadachusetts.

It is also estimated that it will land in Nova Scotia and the other Maritime Provinces of Canada late Saturday, although the CNH felt that it could already be a result of a post-hurricane. tropical.

Despite the floods, the authorities in North Carolina have been relieved by the absence, so far, of deaths and comparisons with hurricane Florence, which has killed more than 30 people between that state, South Carolina and Virginia

Dorian's impact on the United States was weaker than its catastrophic consequences in the Bahamas, where authorities are still looking for survivors and have already counted at least 30 people.