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NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- An 87-year-old woman told a family member she was planning to drive to Leesberg on Monday to stay with a relative so she could escape the wrath of Hurricane Dorian, but she didn't show up, prompting New Smyrna Beeach cops to issue a Silver Alert later that night for the woman and her 2016 silver Cadillac SRX, bearing Florida tag HKL-N20.

YouTube download / Headline Surfer video / Tire blewout on Interstate 4 while heading west ion the St. Johns Bridge into Sanford from Daytona Beach, but saved the car and lived to tell about it.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Mayor Russ Owen has a sound and practical message for residents waiting on Hurricane Dorian.

PORT ORANGE, Fla. -- Home Depot and Lowes have sand, reports Don Burnette, mayor of Port Orange.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Volusia County officials on Saturday were sounding optimistic about the prospect of Hurricane Dorian sparing this beacfront tourism county from an expected walloping.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Two-time Daytona 500 champion Dale Earnhardt Jr. is showing no signs of slowing down in his semi-retirement as he gears up for his NASCAR Xfinity Series 2019 season debut in Saturday's 37th annual Sport Clips Haircuts VFW 200 at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, SC.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Don't wait until the last minute to prepare yourself for Hurricane Dorian because it's expected to be a whopper of a storm when it makes landfall Sunday or Monday somewhere along the East Coast of Florida, if not most of the Atlantic coastlne.

DELAND, Fla. -- The Volusia County School District is closely monitoring Hurricane Dorian and has already decided all schools will be closed Tuesday in anticipation of the monster storm expected to make landfall in the Sunshine State sometime late Sunday or early Monday much further south of here.