Houses and businesses are boarded up, bridges to barrier islands are blocked and many residents of Florida’s beachside communities are long gone. “The uncertainty is a little nerve wracking,” says Drew Gabrielson, clutching his trembling Chihuahua Rodney as he looks across a beach at the roughening surf. On Tuesday, Dorian began moving at five miles per hour (eight kilometers per hour), a positively jaunty pace after being stuck at a near standstill for the better part of two days as it battered the helpless Bahamas.
