紧急事务官员说，处于飓风多里安潜在路径的居民，从佛罗里达州东部到卡罗莱纳州，应该检查他们的财务状况和疏散路线，给他们的汽车加油，并监控当地新闻媒体。
佛罗里达圣约翰县及飓风多里安“不确定路径”周边地区的当地官员于周一上午8点发布了第一份强制疏散命令。随着周边县和州为5级飓风登陆做准备，联邦紧急事务管理局(FEMA)副署长丹尼尔·坎尼维斯基(Daniel Kaniewski)博士告诉《新闻周刊》，居民必须积极为自己潜在的疏散做准备。
几位联邦紧急事务官员告诉《新闻周刊》，在当地官员下达任何潜在的疏散命令之前，应该立即采取行动。
卡尼维斯基敦促多里安路上的居民立即开始清点他们的食物、水和医疗用品，等待当地官员是否下令疏散他们所在地区的居民。联邦应急管理局官员周日向《新闻周刊》重申，居民应该密切关注当地电视台和广播电台，并审查联邦应急管理局智能手机应用程序提供的定制更新。
卡尼维斯基强调，积极的准备工作应包括一系列措施，如审查房主或洪水保险政策，以及记录家中的手机视频，以便记录和清点财产。据Kaniewski说，如果飓风破坏了财产，这个简单的任务可以大大简化索赔程序。总的来说，他建议住在“下雨的地方”的人应该有洪水保险。
卡尼维斯基指出，洪水保险需要30天才能生效，因此本周购买的保单不包括多里安在未来几天抵达造成的损失。
“把手机从口袋里拿出来，在你家走一走，讲述你所拥有的一切，并拍下视频，”他敦促道林潜在登陆轨迹上的居民。"把它存到你的手机里，现在你就有了一个很好的家庭清单."
前联邦应急管理局局长布罗克·龙同意坎耶维斯基的积极建议，他在周日早上告诉哥伦比亚广播公司“面对国家”节目，人们“必须停止把联邦应急管理局视为9-1-1”根据国家飓风中心的数据，多里安飓风增强到了5级，风速持续高达每小时180英里。巴哈马已经报道了大规模的破坏，多里安周日下午袭击了那里。
卡尼维斯基建议居民注意紧急疏散路线，并立即给车辆加油。地方官员对是否批准社区强制疏散命令拥有最终决定权，他们的公告应通过任何和所有形式的沟通进行监督。
“我们谁也不能预知未来，你必须计划好确保你准备好了——汽车加满油，手头有现金，知道出去的路线和疏散区，”他周日告诉《新闻周刊》。
联邦应急管理局的代表还指出，当风暴袭击海岸时，避难所可用于疏散没有朋友或家人陪伴的居民。他建议监测国家海洋和大气管理局的警告和更新，以及通过ready.gov和floridadisaster.org等地方网站获得的信息。
当天早些时候，卡尼维斯基告诉福克斯新闻，联邦应急管理局正在东海岸部署应急部队，等待多里安袭击的地点。
FEMA OFFICIALS URGE RESIDENTS TO CHECK FINANCES, REFUEL CARS AND HEED EVACUATION ORDERS AS DORIAN NEARS
Residents who are in Hurricane Dorian's potential path, ranging from Eastern Florida to the Carolinas, should be reviewing their finances and evacuation routes, refueling their cars and monitoring local news media, emergency officials say.
Local officials in St. Johns County, Florida and surrounding areas within Hurricane Dorian's "path of uncertainty" issued the first mandatory evacuation orders effective Monday at 8 a.m. As neighboring counties and states prepare for the Category 5 hurricane's landing, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Deputy Administrator Dr. Daniel Kaniewski told Newsweek that residents must be proactive about their preparations for their own potential evacuation.
Several federal emergency officials tell Newsweek action should be taken immediately before any potential evacuation orders are given by local officials.
Kaniewski urged residents in Dorian's path to immediately begin taking stock of their food, water and medical supplies as they wait to hear if local officials order evacuations in their area. The FEMA official reiterated to Newsweek Sunday that residents should closely follow local TV and radio stations as well as reviewing tailored updates available through the FEMA smartphone app.
Kaniewski stressed that proactive preparations should include a series of measures, such as reviewing one's homeowners or flood insurance policies as well as recording cell phone video of one's home in order to document and take inventory of possessions. According to Kaniewski, this simple task can greatly ease the process of filing claims, should the hurricane damage property. In general, he recommends that people who live "anywhere it rains" should have flood insurance.
Kaniewski noted that flood insurance takes 30 days to go into effect, so a policy purchased this week would not cover damage caused by Dorian's arrival in the next few days.
"Take the phone out of your pocket and walk through your home narrating what you have and take video," he urged residents in Dorian's potential landfall trajectory. "Have that saved to your phone and now you have a pretty good home inventory."
Former FEMA Administrator Brock Long concurred with Kaniewski's proactive recommendations, telling CBS' Face the Nation Sunday morning that people "have got to stop looking at FEMA as 9-1-1." Hurricane Dorian intensified to a Category 5 and has sustained wind speeds reaching as high as 180 miles per hour, according to the National Hurricane Center. Massive destruction has already been reported in the Bahamas, where Dorian struck Sunday afternoon.
Kaniewski advised residents to be aware of emergency evacuation routes and to gas up their vehicles immediately. Local officials have the final say on whether or not to authorize mandatory evacuation orders for communities, and their announcements should be monitored through any and all forms of communication.
"None of us can tell the future and you must plan to make sure you're ready to go––car fueled up and cash on hand, know the routes out and evacuation zones," he told Newsweek Sunday.
The FEMA deputy also noted that shelters are available for evacuating residents without friends or family to stay with, as the storm hits the coast. He recommended monitoring the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's warnings and updates as well as information available through ready.gov and local websites such as floridadisaster.org.
Earlier in the day, Kaniewski told Fox News that FEMA was deploying emergency response units along the East Coast as the agency waits to see where Dorian will strike.
