1.   Emergency management officials planned to open hurricane shelters to help those who need refuge from the storm.

2.   In both Tampa and Miami, hurricane shelters were said to be filled to capacity.

3.   Some people who went to hurricane shelters found them closed and were turned away by soldiers.

4.   Further northwest in the Bahamas, people nailed plywood over windows, stocked up on food and water, and packed clothing to take to hurricane shelters.

5.   Hotels moved guests out of seaside rooms, and schools were converted into hurricane shelters.

6.   Hurricane shelters never opened, and those people who were evacuated overnight were crammed into the Union Baptist Anglican Church.

7.   Hurricane shelters never opened, and those people who were evacuated overnight were crammed into the Union Baptist Church and the Anglican Church.

8.   Many Nassau residents were already in hurricane shelters.

9.   Official hurricane shelters were never opened, and people who had to be evacuated overnight were crammed into the Union Baptist Church and the Anglican church.

10.   Public schools across Puerto Rico were closed Monday so the buildings could be used as hurricane shelters.