My opinion on this whole Alabama thing...
I personally find it curious NOAA took so long to respond to the tweet if it was something worth bringing attention to. They aren't completely wrong as there was a nonzero but very small chance that parts of Alabama on the extreme southeast side might have just gotten some TS winds. But you would think that type of information should be communicated quickly if NOAA had such an issue with the tweet, not wait until after the hurricane is already past. One last thing, this basically disqualifies any theories that NOAA is politically motivated against the right.
As for Trump, he is getting a lot of grief for how he has handled this whole thing and with good reason. This thread just about sums up my opinions on the sharpie thing(scroll up for the first two tweets).
https://twitter.com/mattlanza/status/1169380051592392714
As for Dorian, while Hatteras did get the eye, they should be alright and it looks like the U.S. as a whole mainly got spared. Great Abaco Island and Grand Bahama got hit really bad though and honestly I wish that is where the attention is with this stuff. Damage is worse than Michael last year and the 2017 storms. Worst I have seen looking at the pictures since Haiyan in 2013(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Haiyan). Some storms got close with the winds(Irma, Maria, Yutu, Winston to name a few) but this had a large storm surge as well and was much slower moving, especially on Grand Bahama. Couldn't be too low because the surge but if you were above that you still had the winds to worry about. Going to be a long recovery for the islands.