The trepidatious moment is captured as Floridians stock up on gas Friday (August 30) in anticipation of Hurricane Dorian, which some predict could be the biggest in 30 years.<br /><br />Hurricane Dorian continued tearing through the Atlantic Ocean Friday morning with the potential to blast into Florida as a monster storm with 130 mph winds on Labor Day.<br /><br />“I think there's a pretty high degree of certainty that this is going to be a major hurricane,” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said in a news conference from the state emergency operations center in Tallahassee. He said residents should prepare for a “multiday event," having already declared a state of emergency as of Thursday.<br /><br />Dorian’s trek toward the Bahamas and the Sunshine State slowed overnight and could become a “prolonged, drawn-out event,” the National Hurricane Center said in its 5 a.m. advisory. Forecasters warned that the center of the storm may pause at sea before it makes landfall at the tail end of the holiday weekend — leaving its outermost portions to potentially drench Florida with heaps of rain.<br /><br />The hurricane strengthened to a Category 2 storm early Friday with sustained winds of 105 mph and is expected to become a Category 3 storm before striking the Bahamas sometime on Sunday.<br /><br />By 7 a.m., the storm was moving northwest at about 12 mph. Most of the island nation has been put under hurricane watch, including its capital, Nassau.
