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Florida Rides Dorian's 'Emotional Roller Coaster' After a Week of Warnings
and Waiting

Reuters

   TITUSVILLE, FLA. - Scott Renfroe was smoking cigarettes with his wife
   at the end of a dock in Titusville, Florida, on Tuesday morning, where
   he had come to see if Hurricane Dorian had brought the powerful wind
   gusts and rip currents that meteorologists have warned about for days.

   The water was high but not too rough, and there was not a raindrop to
   be felt, despite nearly a week of warnings that had Renfroe and his
   neighbors boarding up their homes and stockpiling food as one of the
   most powerful hurricanes on record devastated the Bahamas and
   threatened Florida.

   As Dorian's winds eased on Tuesday -- to what forecasters warned was a
   still-powerful Category 2 storm -- some public safety officials worried
   that the long wait could lead to a sense of complacency along the
   storm's projected path.

   "It's an emotional roller coaster when you don't know what's going on
   and you don't know when it's coming," said Renfroe, a 43-year-old road
   technician. "It went from being a really elevated, kind of antsy scared
   moment to being able to relax a little more, but at the same time just
   wanting it to go through so we could go back to our normal lives."

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