Officials around Hampton Roads and northeastern North Carolina are telling residents in the region’s most flood-prone neighborhoods to consider moving to safer ground.

Virginia Beach officials ordered a mandatory evacuation for Sandbridge residents effective at 6 p.m., and voluntary evacuations for those who live in Zone A and areas that have historically experienced flooding.

Hurricane Dorian, which pummeled the Bahamas, could cost the country $7 billion in insured and uninsured losses, according to an estimate from risk modeler Karen Clark & Co.

Nathan Carman is either a deceptive young man whose shoddy repairs led to the sinking of his boat with his mother presumably on board, or he’s a victim of a terrible misfortune brought on by a boat that never should have been on the water.

Powerful Hurricane Dorian is unleashing its full array of hazards on the Carolinas just days after causing a humanitarian crisis in the northwestern Bahamas and then zagging around the Florida Peninsula.

As Hurricane Dorian made its way closer to Florida on Tuesday, Tropical Storm Fernand formed in the Gulf of Mexico. Tropical Storm Gabrielle formed Wednesday morning in the far east Atlantic.

Hurricane Dorian smashed parts of the tourism-dependent Bahamas to ruins, leaving relief officials scrambling on Tuesday to battle an unfolding humanitarian crisis as the scale of the catastrophe begins to emerge.

Hurricane Dorian, the storm currently devastating the Bahamas, will cause at least $25 billion of losses for insurers, according to analysts at UBS Group AG, a figure that would make it the most expensive natural disaster for the industry since 2017.

Hurricane Dorian weakened further into a Category 2 hurricane but grew larger in size as it finally began moving northwest Tuesday morning, aiming its dangerous winds and life-threatening storm surge off Florida’s coast after devastating Grand Bahama Island.

Hurricane Dorian’s winds ratcheted up to 130 mph Friday night, making it a Category 4, the National Hurricane Center said in an extra update half an hour after its usual 8 p.m. advisory.

Hurricane Dorian is now forecast to be a Category 4 storm -- with sustained winds of around 130 mph -- when it makes its expected landfall in the US on Monday, likely somewhere along Florida’s Atlantic coast, the National Hurricane Center says.

Hurricane Dorian was expected to become a “dangerous” storm as it trudges toward Florida after sweeping through the U.S. Virgin Islands on Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center said.

Hurricane Dorian was expected to become a “dangerous” storm as it trudges toward Florida after sweeping through the U.S. Virgin Islands on Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center said in its 5 p.m. update.

Monday night’s storms sent boats flying at Lake Thunderbird. The owner of the Calypso Cove Marina said 10 boats were submerged and at least two boats were on top of other boats.

The Greenbrier Corporation, which own the historic Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia, has filed a lawsuit in US District Court against an insurance adjusting firm for allegedly failing to meet its obligations to recoup from insurers financial losses for damages to the hotel that occurred during a 2016 flood.

Puerto Rico declared a state of emergency as Tropical Storm Dorian, which is growing as it moves across the Caribbean, could be upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane when it nears the island still recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Maria.