Orders for hundreds of miles of the US’s eastern seaboard to be evacuated have been issued as the joint strongest hurricane to ever make landfall has already caused extensive damage to the Bahamas.One child has reportedly been killed on the Bahaman island of Abaco where floodwaters reaching 18-23 feet (5.5-7 metres) caused “catastrophic conditions”, inundating homes and while winds gusting up to 220 miles per hour tore buildings’ roofs off.
