SCENE | C1 DORIAN | A3 ON STAGE: ‘DIAL ‘M’ THE ATMOSPHERE FOR MURDER’ OPENS STOKED A KILLER, THEN FRIDAY AT MOONLIGHT SWATTED IT DOWN Thursday, September 5, 2019 YOUR LOCAL SOURCE FOR LAKE & SUMTER COUNTIES @dailycommercial Facebook.com/daily.commercial $1 Dorian mostly spares Lake County By Tom McNiff As authorities surveyed days. Correspondent the area at daybreak, they Lake had been under threat reported very little tree of tropical storm conditions EUSTIS — Hurricane damage and there were no in the days prior to Dorian’s Dorian, which laid waste to immediate reports of wide- arrival, but National Weather the Bahamas with devastat- spread power outages. Service meteorologist Matt ing force this week, barely Lake County Commu- Bragaw said the storm didn’t registered in Lake County as nications Director Elisha veer close enough to the coast it rolled past Florida overnight Pappacoda said Wednesday and its wind field didn’t get Tuesday and Wednesday. morning there were “no sig- large enough to reach very Dorian, which stayed nificant calls overnight” and far inland. about 80 miles offshore as it that just one tree was reported In fact, Bragaw said most marched north, whipped up down. of the area never saw gusts waves and lashed the east County officials were con- greater than 28 to 30 mph, coast of the state with tropi- fident enough that the danger and rainfall in Paisley, Astor, cal storm force gusts, but 30 had passed that they ordered Umatilla and other east Lake miles inland, eastern Lake the six emergency storm shel- communities topped out at A man looks at the larger-than-normal waves on Lake Dora on County saw heavy rain and ters closed at noon. In all, 570 about 2.5 inches. Wednesday at Gilbert Park in Mount Dora. Hurricane Dorian moved moderate wind gusts over- people and 57 pets sought through Lake County overnight with minimal impacts. [WHITNEY night and little else. refuge in the shelters in recent See SPARES, A4 LEHNECKER/DAILY COMMERCIAL] Devastation in the Bahamas Lake schools reopen today By Frank Jolley frank.jolley@ dailycommercial.com Officials with Lake County Schools announced early Wednesday morning that all classrooms in the district’s more than 50 schools will reopen Thursday and operate on a typical schedule. That decision was made shortly after county officials said the six emergency shel- ters that were opened Monday in area schools as Hurricane Dorian approached would close at noon on Wednesday. George Bolter, left, and his parents walk through the remains of his home destroyed by Hurricane Dorian in the Pine Bay neighborhood of Freeport, Bahamas, on Wednesday. [PHOTOS BY RAMON ESPINOSA/AP] See SCHOOLS, A5 Dorian expected to pass close to Georgia and scrape the Carolinas The Associated Press everything, but his faith kept and Friday with the potential for the country stood at seven, but him strong.” over a foot of rain in some spots there was little doubt it would FREEPORT, Bahamas — The By Wednesday, Dorian was and life-threatening storm rise. ground crunched under Greg pushing northward a relatively surge. With a now-distant Dorian Alem’s feet on Wednesday as safe distance off the Florida The devastation wrought pushing its way up the South- he walked over the ruins of his coastline with reduced but still- by Dorian — and the terror eastern U.S. coast, menacing home, laid waste by Hurricane dangerous 110 mph winds. it inflicted during its day- Georgia and the Carolinas, many LOCAL | A3 Dorian. He touched a splintered At 5 p.m., Dorian was cen- and-a-half mauling of the people living in the Bahamas beam of wood and pointed to tered about 150 miles south of Bahamas — came into focus were in shock as they slowly 2020 the fallen trees, overcome by Charleston, South Carolina, Wednesday as the passing of came out of shelters and memories. moving north northwest at 8 the storm revealed a muddy, checked on their homes. TEDXEUSTIS “We planted those trees mph. Hurricane-force winds debris-strewn landscape of In one community, George ourselves. Everything has a extended up to 70 miles from smashed and flooded-out Bolter stood in the bright sun- CONFERENCE memory, you know,” he said. its center. homes on Abaco and Grand shine and surveyed the ruins of “It’s so, so sad. ... In the Bible Dorian was expected to pass Bahama islands. Officially the what was once his home. TO FEATURE there is a person called Job, and dangerously close to Georgia death toll from the strongest I feel like Job right now. He’s lost and scrape the Carolinas today hurricane on record ever to hit See DORIAN, A6 12 SPEAKERS Volume 143, Issue 248 Local & State ................ A3 Scene ........................... C1 © 2019 GateHouse Media Opinion ....................... A7 Comics ........................C4 Home delivery: 352-787-0600 Sports...........................B1 Diversions .................... C5 A2 Thursday, September 5, 2019 | DailyCommercial.com NATION&WORLD IN BRIEF COPENHAGEN, DENMARK Brexit turmoil continues as Swedish lawyer won’t appeal A$AP Rocky’s assault verdict lawmakers defy UK’s Johnson The lawyer for American rapper A$AP Rocky says his client won’t appeal his assault By Jill Lawless out of his control. He leads a conviction for a June 30 street and Danica Kirka government with no majority brawl in Stockholm. The Associated Press in Parliament and may not be Slobodan Jovicic told able to secure an election that Sweden’s TT news agency LONDON — Britain’s could change that fact. Wednesday that the rapper Parliament faced a second He was humiliated Tuesday doesn’t have the energy to straight day of political tur- — the first day of Parliament’s appeal. moil Wednesday as lawmakers autumn term — by losing his A$AP Rocky, whose real fought Prime Minister Boris first Commons vote as prime name is Rakim Mayers, had Johnson’s plan to deliver Brexit minister when lawmakers pleaded self-defense and in less than two months, come passed a motion 328-301 that said he had tried to avoid a what may. enabled their push for a law confrontation with two men Johnson, in turn, threat- stopping a no-deal Brexit. His who he said were persistently ened to dissolve the House of government lost its working following his entourage. One Commons and hold a national majority as one Conserva- of them picked a fight with election that he hopes might tive lawmaker defected to the a bodyguard, Mayers said produce a less fractious crop opposition, and more than 20 during his trial. of legislators. In this image taken from video, British Prime Minister Boris Tory legislators sided with the On Aug. 14, Mayers and the The House of Commons is Johnson speaks during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday opposition on the vote. bodyguards were given “con- confronting Johnson over his in the House of Commons, London. [HOUSE OF COMMONS VIA PA VIA “Not a good start, Boris!” ditional sentences” for the insistence that the U.K. leave THE ASSOCIATED PRESS] one unidentified lawmaker assault convictions, meaning the EU on Oct. 31 even with- shouted after the vote. they won’t serve prison time out a withdrawal agreement Johnson responded with unless they commit a similar to cushion the economic blow. recession. general election on Oct. 15, swift vengeance, expelling offense in Sweden again. Opposition lawmakers, sup- Johnson insisted Wednes- taking his message directly to the rebels from the Conser- ported by rebels in Johnson’s day that talks with the EU on the people in his bid to deliver vatives in Parliament, leaving URBANA, ILL. Conservative Party, planned a revised deal were “making Brexit. But it is unclear whether them as independent lawmak- U of Illinois student arrested to fast-track a law that would substantial progress.” Johnson has the votes to trig- ers. Among those bounced after noose found in elevator block a no-deal departure But the bloc says the U.K. has ger an election, which needs out were former International at the end of October, amid not submitted any substan- the approval of two-thirds of Development Secretary Rory A University of Illinois stu- warnings from lawmakers that tial new proposals. European the 650 House of Commons Stewart; Nicholas Soames, dent who is accused of tying crashing out of the bloc with- Commission spokeswoman lawmakers. the grandson of Johnson hero a noose and leaving it in a out a divorce agreement would Mina Andreeva said “there is The Labour Party said it Winston Churchill; and Ken- residence hall elevator was cause irreparable harm. nothing new” from London. would oppose an election neth Clarke, a former treasury charged Tuesday with a hate “There is very little time Labour Party leader Jeremy until legislation is in place to chief and the longest-serving crime. left,” said Labour Party law- Corbyn accused Johnson of block a no-deal Brexit. The member of the House of Andrew Smith, 19, found maker Hilary Benn as he bad faith — pretending to party’s Brexit spokesman, Commons. some rope in the eleva- introduced the measure. negotiate but really fritter- Keir Starmer, said Johnson had The beleaguered U.K. leader tor in Allen Hall over the “The purpose of the bill is ing away time until a no-deal violated the trust of the House got a boost Wednesday when weekend and tied it into a very simple: to ensure that Brexit became inevitable. of Commons with his decision a Scottish court refused to noose, Champaign County the United Kingdom does not “These negotiations are a last week to suspend Parlia- intervene in his decision to Assistant State’s Attorney leave the European Union on sham.