Hurricane chaser Josh Morgerman is safe after going dark on social media for more than two days as Hurricane Dorian slammed the northern Bahamas.
The Weather Channel announced Tuesday evening that it had confirmed Morgerman, who hails from California, was safe after many of his followers began fearing the worst.
BREAKING: We are in contact with Hurricane Chaser Josh Morgerman. More with @iCyclone coming. He is safe. pic.twitter.com/C0gCq63u60
— The Weather Channel (@weatherchannel) September 3, 2019
Morgerman then tweeted some more details about what transpired over the past couple of days.
Winds pounded the building with the force of a thousand sledgehammers. Crept out during eye to find school mostly destroyed, cars in parking lot thrown around & mutilated. Barometer said 913.4 mb.
— Josh Morgerman (@iCyclone) September 3, 2019
Whole neighborhoods were swept by mighty surge higher than anything in memory. Areas above water had catastrophic wind damage. Many deaths reported from drowning, flying debris, & collapsing houses. Medical clinic overwhelmed. An absolute catastrophe. SEND HELP TO ABACO ISLANDS.
— Josh Morgerman (@iCyclone) September 3, 2019
Morgerman was in Marsh Harbour, a town in the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas, when Dorian hit as a Category 5 hurricane, boasting peak maximum sustained maximum winds of 185 mph.
“8:17 am. Gusts getting scary in Marsh Harbour. I feel like a rocket is about to take off. Bandwidth down to almost nothing, so this is possibly the last you’ll hear from me for a long while. This is gonna get ugly. #DORIAN #Bahamas,” he said Sunday morning.
8:17 am. Gusts getting scary in Marsh Harbour. I feel like a rocket is about to take off. Bandwidth down to almost nothing, so this is possibly the last you’ll hear from me for a long while. This is gonna get ugly. #DORIAN #Bahamas
— Josh Morgerman (@iCyclone) September 1, 2019
“11:15 am. 978 mb & falling fast. Just outside eyewall, but winds will damaging. Holed up with six others in concrete room with chairs against the door. #DORIAN,” he said three hours later in what would be his last tweet for more than two days.
11:15 am. 978 mb & falling fast. Just outside eyewall, but winds will damaging. Holed up with six others in concrete room with chairs against the door. #DORIAN
— Josh Morgerman (@iCyclone) September 1, 2019
As many as 13,000 homes in the Bahamas have been destroyed, and at least five people have been killed by Dorian.
Dorian, now weakened to a Category 2 hurricane, is moving close to the coast of Florida before it is expected to swipe the coasts of Georgia and the Carolinas.
