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I hope they let ALL evacuees in, documents or no documents!
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The eastern coast of Maine is under a tropical storm warning with the potential for wind gusts up to 45 mph, power outages, dangerous surf and beach erosion.
The National Weather Service said the warning caused by Hurricane Dorian passing offshore applied Saturday to areas east of Bar Harbor.
Meteorologist Donald Dumont of the National Weather Service in Caribou warned people to keep a safe distance from the rocky shore to avoid "sneaker waves" that might sweep them into the ocean.
Eastern Maine under tropical storm warning caused by Dorian
The National Weather Service said the warning caused by Hurricane Dorian passing offshore applied Saturday to areas east of Bar Harbor.
Meteorologist Donald Dumont of the National Weather Service in Caribou warned people to keep a safe distance from the rocky shore to avoid "sneaker waves" that might sweep them into the ocean.
Eastern Maine under tropical storm warning caused by Dorian
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Frustrated pilots say Bahamas air-traffic control hampering relief in Dorian aftermath
As private boats began arriving in Abaco on Friday to help evacuate Hurricane Dorian’s storm victims in the Bahamas, frustration grew in the skies as airplane and helicopter pilots complained that chaotic air traffic control is hampering relief efforts.
The frustration comes as the Bahamas expands flight restrictions into Grand Bahama and Abaco that pilots say are forcing them to first fly into Nassau, the country’s capital, before being allowed to head out to storm-damaged communities, where thousands are awaiting evacuations off the devastated islands.
“Going in and out of Nassau is the biggest pain in the butt,” said a Miami-Dade charter pilot, who has been helping in the relief effort and asked not to be named out of fear of retaliation.
“These guys don’t know how to vector people; they don’t know how to create traffic flow. Sandy Point for me is a 15-minute flight, and I got vectored for an hour,” said the pilot, referring to instructions from the air traffic control tower to fly around until permission is given to land. “And they tell you to fly slow so that they can get all of this other traffic in.
“We’ve got to get thousands of people off Abaco,” he added, describing the scene at the Sandy Point airport on the southern part of Great Abaco Island, where many people have been sleeping for days waiting for rescue. “These guys don’t understand how urgent it is.”
The pilot, who had hoped to do four runs between Sandy Point and Nassau, said after 11 hours in the Bahamas on Thursday, he was able to do just one run and evacuate 11 people. In addition to local Bahamian air traffic controllers being poorly trained to handle the overflow of planes, the pilot said, “people that are flying over from the States and sightseeing are not helping.”
“The small airplanes that want to help, I love them to death. But please stay away right now, don’t come in because you have guys like myself with big heavy airplanes and guys with helicopters who can land and get people medically evacuated. They just need to stay away. If they want to help, make donations to local groups or send things over on a boat.
“We need help from the [U.S. Federal Aviation Administration] and air traffic controllers to assist or take over the Bahamas airspace allowing relief supplies to operate more than efficiently,” he said.
Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article234792032.html
As private boats began arriving in Abaco on Friday to help evacuate Hurricane Dorian’s storm victims in the Bahamas, frustration grew in the skies as airplane and helicopter pilots complained that chaotic air traffic control is hampering relief efforts.
The frustration comes as the Bahamas expands flight restrictions into Grand Bahama and Abaco that pilots say are forcing them to first fly into Nassau, the country’s capital, before being allowed to head out to storm-damaged communities, where thousands are awaiting evacuations off the devastated islands.
“Going in and out of Nassau is the biggest pain in the butt,” said a Miami-Dade charter pilot, who has been helping in the relief effort and asked not to be named out of fear of retaliation.
“These guys don’t know how to vector people; they don’t know how to create traffic flow. Sandy Point for me is a 15-minute flight, and I got vectored for an hour,” said the pilot, referring to instructions from the air traffic control tower to fly around until permission is given to land. “And they tell you to fly slow so that they can get all of this other traffic in.
“We’ve got to get thousands of people off Abaco,” he added, describing the scene at the Sandy Point airport on the southern part of Great Abaco Island, where many people have been sleeping for days waiting for rescue. “These guys don’t understand how urgent it is.”
The pilot, who had hoped to do four runs between Sandy Point and Nassau, said after 11 hours in the Bahamas on Thursday, he was able to do just one run and evacuate 11 people. In addition to local Bahamian air traffic controllers being poorly trained to handle the overflow of planes, the pilot said, “people that are flying over from the States and sightseeing are not helping.”
“The small airplanes that want to help, I love them to death. But please stay away right now, don’t come in because you have guys like myself with big heavy airplanes and guys with helicopters who can land and get people medically evacuated. They just need to stay away. If they want to help, make donations to local groups or send things over on a boat.
“We need help from the [U.S. Federal Aviation Administration] and air traffic controllers to assist or take over the Bahamas airspace allowing relief supplies to operate more than efficiently,” he said.
Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article234792032.html
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Family in MA is getting wind & rain. Family in NH is getting a light breeze & sprinkles. They are all inland but wanted me (in FL) to know they had the same hurricane come thru. LOL! I told them Dorian just won’t die!!
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Haitian Official: Evacuate Island - There's No Place To Live On Abaco
HAITIAN Chargé D’Affaires Dorval Darlier has urged the Minnis administration to evacuate as many people as possible to New Providence as there is no place for them to live in Abaco.
#While he said the Haitian government has given him the green light to assist in any way possible, Mr Darlier said those in Abaco would be better off in the capital. Many Haitians who resided in The Mudd shanty town in Abaco, which was destroyed by Hurricane Dorian, are now in deplorable conditions, forced to take shelter in the few surviving structures, like the government complex in Marsh Harbour.
#Many of them are packed into offices in the complex, sleeping on the floor and desks. There is no electricity or running water in the building. When The Tribune was on the island this week, this newspaper witnessed storm victims in unhygienic conditions, due to people urinating and defecating in open areas and being forced to bath in rain water.
#Wet clothes were hung out to dry on the railings of the building.
#Aware of the immediate need for help, Mr Darlier said he did not know how many people in the Haitian community were left without homes.
#“If there is no place for them to stay, you have to bring those people here or make shelter for them,” Mr Darlier said when he was asked if evacuations from Abaco were needed. “Even if I bring some goods down there, where are they going to shelter? Where are they going to live?
#“I think the best plan what the government can do is move. Those they can move from Abaco make a shelter for them here for them to give them assistance for whatever they need.”
#Mr Darlier said now is not the time for flag colours or to highlight who is Haitian and who is Bahamian.
#“Everybody is in need. It’s not about Bahamians, it’s not about Haitians, it’s not about the flag colour as the prime minister has said.
Haitian official: Evacuate island - there's no place to live on Abaco
HAITIAN Chargé D’Affaires Dorval Darlier has urged the Minnis administration to evacuate as many people as possible to New Providence as there is no place for them to live in Abaco.
#While he said the Haitian government has given him the green light to assist in any way possible, Mr Darlier said those in Abaco would be better off in the capital. Many Haitians who resided in The Mudd shanty town in Abaco, which was destroyed by Hurricane Dorian, are now in deplorable conditions, forced to take shelter in the few surviving structures, like the government complex in Marsh Harbour.
#Many of them are packed into offices in the complex, sleeping on the floor and desks. There is no electricity or running water in the building. When The Tribune was on the island this week, this newspaper witnessed storm victims in unhygienic conditions, due to people urinating and defecating in open areas and being forced to bath in rain water.
#Wet clothes were hung out to dry on the railings of the building.
#Aware of the immediate need for help, Mr Darlier said he did not know how many people in the Haitian community were left without homes.
#“If there is no place for them to stay, you have to bring those people here or make shelter for them,” Mr Darlier said when he was asked if evacuations from Abaco were needed. “Even if I bring some goods down there, where are they going to shelter? Where are they going to live?
#“I think the best plan what the government can do is move. Those they can move from Abaco make a shelter for them here for them to give them assistance for whatever they need.”
#Mr Darlier said now is not the time for flag colours or to highlight who is Haitian and who is Bahamian.
#“Everybody is in need. It’s not about Bahamians, it’s not about Haitians, it’s not about the flag colour as the prime minister has said.
Haitian official: Evacuate island - there's no place to live on Abaco
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‘We’re getting desperate’: Bahamians want out, as relief to storm-ravaged islands escalates
MARSH HARBOUR, Bahamas — Relief efforts escalated Friday for the hurricane-ravaged islands of Grand Bahama and the Abacos, with the U.S. military planning airlifts, government officials touring the disaster zones and a private cruise ship delivering tons of supplies.
But many suffering Bahamians, baking under a blistering sun, simply wanted out on Friday — and the pace of evacuations was maddeningly slow.
“It’s all so unsure and chaotic,” said Angelique Hall, who was nursing an infected leg and joined her blind father and young child at the Marsh Harbour Port Authority hoping to catch a ride to Nassau. “We’re getting desperate here.”
Hall and her family were among 300 to 400 people who crowded the port. A private ferry was hired to evacuate port employees. The boat only had room for about 100 evacuees, and police and military officers were trying to prioritize women, children and the sick.
A similar scene played out at the port in Grand Bahama Island, where the Palm Beach-based Grand Celebration cruise ship, which delivered tons of water and food Friday morning, boarded Bahamians with permission to return to the United States. But hundreds of desperate people gathered in the sweltering heat, and a line of cars snaked for miles, as people tried to board three boats scheduled to leave Freeport on Friday evening.
Read more: ‘We’re getting desperate’: Bahamians want out, as relief to storm-ravaged islands escalates
MARSH HARBOUR, Bahamas — Relief efforts escalated Friday for the hurricane-ravaged islands of Grand Bahama and the Abacos, with the U.S. military planning airlifts, government officials touring the disaster zones and a private cruise ship delivering tons of supplies.
But many suffering Bahamians, baking under a blistering sun, simply wanted out on Friday — and the pace of evacuations was maddeningly slow.
“It’s all so unsure and chaotic,” said Angelique Hall, who was nursing an infected leg and joined her blind father and young child at the Marsh Harbour Port Authority hoping to catch a ride to Nassau. “We’re getting desperate here.”
Hall and her family were among 300 to 400 people who crowded the port. A private ferry was hired to evacuate port employees. The boat only had room for about 100 evacuees, and police and military officers were trying to prioritize women, children and the sick.
A similar scene played out at the port in Grand Bahama Island, where the Palm Beach-based Grand Celebration cruise ship, which delivered tons of water and food Friday morning, boarded Bahamians with permission to return to the United States. But hundreds of desperate people gathered in the sweltering heat, and a line of cars snaked for miles, as people tried to board three boats scheduled to leave Freeport on Friday evening.
Read more: ‘We’re getting desperate’: Bahamians want out, as relief to storm-ravaged islands escalates
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High winds and rough seas from Hurricane Dorian have prompted the cancellation of ferry service to Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts.
The Steamship Authority says ferries to the two islands will not be running Saturday morning because of the weather conditions, but some service is scheduled to resume in the afternoon and evening.
Dorian brought tropical storm-force winds to Cape Cod and the islands on Saturday as it passed near southeastern Massachusetts on its way toward Nova Scotia.
Eversource reported more than 1,000 power outages in and around Cape Cod on Saturday morning.
The National Weather Service says a buoy off Nantucket reported sustained winds of 56 mph (90 kph) and gusts of up to 81 mph (130 kph) on Saturday morning.
Ferry service canceled as Dorian churns near Massachusetts
The Steamship Authority says ferries to the two islands will not be running Saturday morning because of the weather conditions, but some service is scheduled to resume in the afternoon and evening.
Dorian brought tropical storm-force winds to Cape Cod and the islands on Saturday as it passed near southeastern Massachusetts on its way toward Nova Scotia.
Eversource reported more than 1,000 power outages in and around Cape Cod on Saturday morning.
The National Weather Service says a buoy off Nantucket reported sustained winds of 56 mph (90 kph) and gusts of up to 81 mph (130 kph) on Saturday morning.
Ferry service canceled as Dorian churns near Massachusetts
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On Dorian-Battered Island, What’s Left? Virtually Nothing
MARSH HARBOUR, Bahamas — No schools. No banks. No gas stations. No supermarkets. No restaurants. No churches. No pharmacies. No hardware stores. No water, no electricity and no phone lines.
In this part of the Bahamas, nearly everything is gone.
Hurricane Dorian didn’t just upend life in Marsh Harbour, the biggest town in the Abaco Islands. Dorian crushed it, stripping all essentials, schedules and routines — everything residents and visitors had taken for granted.
And there’s no sense when those things might be restored.
Five days after the storm struck the northern end of the Bahamas, the total death toll remains unknown, but fears abound that it will be far higher than the 43 confirmed as of Friday. Many people were still missing. By some estimates Dorian did at least $7 billion in damage.
Tens of thousands of traumatized survivors, with nothing but wreckage encircling them and no way to communicate, do not even know where to begin. In the Abacos, they simply had to start by leaving.
[...]
Other Dorian victims, in Grand Bahama, said they would rebuild.
O’Neil Wildgoose, 43, said he, his wife and their dog spent two days on the roof of their home in Freeport’s Lincoln Green neighborhood, ravaged by a 12-foot storm surge that “came like a tsunami.”
“I watched every piece of my furniture float through the back door,” Mr. Wildgoose said. But he insisted he would not leave Grand Bahama, where he has lived since birth. “We have to be resilient. We can’t give up.”
In the Abacos, no area seemed to have been hit as ferociously as Marsh Harbour. It was as if someone had lifted up the entire town and dropped it.
Houses smashed to bits. Commercial buildings split open as if with a sledgehammer, their contents splayed on the sidewalk. Boats and cars tossed here and there like toys.
Hundreds of people, many from destroyed shantytowns that had been mostly populated by Haitian immigrants, fled to the main government complex in Marsh Harbour and took up residence in its damaged offices.
Maxine Duncombe, the administrator of the central Abaco district, said the government had admonished residents, particularly in low-lying areas, to evacuate to proper shelters before the storm. Officials had even gone door to door, broadcasting their warnings.
“We thought people would heed the warnings,” Ms. Duncombe said Friday at the government complex.
The first refugees started arriving at the complex as the hurricane’s eye passed over Marsh Harbour. “We saw this multitude and my first instinct was to save lives,” Ms. Duncombe said. “I pushed them into every office.”
At their peak, nearly 2,000 people were sleeping in the building’s courtyard, along its colonnaded balcony and walkways, and in its administrative offices. They dried their wet clothes on the branches of bushes in and around the building, and children played on the trunk of a palm tree felled in the storm.
Their numbers had ebbed considerably by Friday as they found other sanctuaries, or a way off the island.
Read more: On Dorian-Battered Island, What’s Left? Virtually Nothing
MARSH HARBOUR, Bahamas — No schools. No banks. No gas stations. No supermarkets. No restaurants. No churches. No pharmacies. No hardware stores. No water, no electricity and no phone lines.
In this part of the Bahamas, nearly everything is gone.
Hurricane Dorian didn’t just upend life in Marsh Harbour, the biggest town in the Abaco Islands. Dorian crushed it, stripping all essentials, schedules and routines — everything residents and visitors had taken for granted.
And there’s no sense when those things might be restored.
Five days after the storm struck the northern end of the Bahamas, the total death toll remains unknown, but fears abound that it will be far higher than the 43 confirmed as of Friday. Many people were still missing. By some estimates Dorian did at least $7 billion in damage.
Tens of thousands of traumatized survivors, with nothing but wreckage encircling them and no way to communicate, do not even know where to begin. In the Abacos, they simply had to start by leaving.
[...]
Other Dorian victims, in Grand Bahama, said they would rebuild.
O’Neil Wildgoose, 43, said he, his wife and their dog spent two days on the roof of their home in Freeport’s Lincoln Green neighborhood, ravaged by a 12-foot storm surge that “came like a tsunami.”
“I watched every piece of my furniture float through the back door,” Mr. Wildgoose said. But he insisted he would not leave Grand Bahama, where he has lived since birth. “We have to be resilient. We can’t give up.”
In the Abacos, no area seemed to have been hit as ferociously as Marsh Harbour. It was as if someone had lifted up the entire town and dropped it.
Houses smashed to bits. Commercial buildings split open as if with a sledgehammer, their contents splayed on the sidewalk. Boats and cars tossed here and there like toys.
Hundreds of people, many from destroyed shantytowns that had been mostly populated by Haitian immigrants, fled to the main government complex in Marsh Harbour and took up residence in its damaged offices.
Maxine Duncombe, the administrator of the central Abaco district, said the government had admonished residents, particularly in low-lying areas, to evacuate to proper shelters before the storm. Officials had even gone door to door, broadcasting their warnings.
“We thought people would heed the warnings,” Ms. Duncombe said Friday at the government complex.
The first refugees started arriving at the complex as the hurricane’s eye passed over Marsh Harbour. “We saw this multitude and my first instinct was to save lives,” Ms. Duncombe said. “I pushed them into every office.”
At their peak, nearly 2,000 people were sleeping in the building’s courtyard, along its colonnaded balcony and walkways, and in its administrative offices. They dried their wet clothes on the branches of bushes in and around the building, and children played on the trunk of a palm tree felled in the storm.
Their numbers had ebbed considerably by Friday as they found other sanctuaries, or a way off the island.
Read more: On Dorian-Battered Island, What’s Left? Virtually Nothing
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'You Can't Stay Here': Dorian Leaves Parts Of The Bahamas Uninhabitable
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People have been lining up at a small airstrip in Abaco waiting to get off the island after the monster storm leveled homes and turned hundreds of Bahamians into refugees, as NPR's Jason Beaubien reports. On Friday, small planes continued to pick up the most vulnerable, as many more people waited on the tiny airstrip in Sandy Point trying to catch a flight to take them anywhere but here.
The U.S. Coast Guard says it rescued more than 200 people on Thursday and that those efforts are continuing as hundreds more remain missing. Rescue workers are struggling just to access areas because runways are ruined and harbors are unnavigable, the Coast Guard says.
On top of immediate relief efforts, providing survivors with long-term mental health support "will be the challenge moving forward," Marvin Dames, the Bahamas' minister of national security, tells Here & Now.
"When folks come to the reality that they no longer have a roof over their head or a loved one who's gone, never to return again, it's really tough," Dames says. "So these places will certainly need a tremendous amount of support, and we're working to provide avenues for that to happen."
Dorian continues to travel northeast after it made landfall on Cape Hatteras on North Carolina's Outer Banks on Friday morning. The storm has been downgraded to a Category 1, and officials say it won't stick around wreaking havoc the way it did on the Bahamas.
When the storm slammed into the Bahamas as a Category 5 on Sunday, Regina Parotti-Kennedy tells NPR that the sound of the wind in Marsh Harbour was "unbelievable."
"It wasn't pounding. It was howling like demons from hell," she says. "I have nothing else to compare it to. My ears hurt so bad. I still can't hear properly out of one."
'You Can't Stay Here': Dorian Leaves Parts Of The Bahamas Uninhabitable
[...]
People have been lining up at a small airstrip in Abaco waiting to get off the island after the monster storm leveled homes and turned hundreds of Bahamians into refugees, as NPR's Jason Beaubien reports. On Friday, small planes continued to pick up the most vulnerable, as many more people waited on the tiny airstrip in Sandy Point trying to catch a flight to take them anywhere but here.
The U.S. Coast Guard says it rescued more than 200 people on Thursday and that those efforts are continuing as hundreds more remain missing. Rescue workers are struggling just to access areas because runways are ruined and harbors are unnavigable, the Coast Guard says.
On top of immediate relief efforts, providing survivors with long-term mental health support "will be the challenge moving forward," Marvin Dames, the Bahamas' minister of national security, tells Here & Now.
"When folks come to the reality that they no longer have a roof over their head or a loved one who's gone, never to return again, it's really tough," Dames says. "So these places will certainly need a tremendous amount of support, and we're working to provide avenues for that to happen."
Dorian continues to travel northeast after it made landfall on Cape Hatteras on North Carolina's Outer Banks on Friday morning. The storm has been downgraded to a Category 1, and officials say it won't stick around wreaking havoc the way it did on the Bahamas.
When the storm slammed into the Bahamas as a Category 5 on Sunday, Regina Parotti-Kennedy tells NPR that the sound of the wind in Marsh Harbour was "unbelievable."
"It wasn't pounding. It was howling like demons from hell," she says. "I have nothing else to compare it to. My ears hurt so bad. I still can't hear properly out of one."
'You Can't Stay Here': Dorian Leaves Parts Of The Bahamas Uninhabitable
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"DARE Co., N.C. – Permanent residents and essential personnel of “critical businesses” will be allowed into parts of Dare County beginning Saturday at noon.
Access to Hatteras Island remains closed, the North Carolina Department of Transportation said on Twitter. The re-entry is for areas north of Oregon Inlet.
Currituck County also announced that Priority 1 Critical Needs Pass or Priority 2 Business Pass holders will be allowed into Corolla and Carova beginning at noon Saturday. Visitors, residents and property owners are not currently allowed back into Corolla and Carova."
Residents, essential personnel cleared to reenter parts of Outer Banks Saturday
Access to Hatteras Island remains closed, the North Carolina Department of Transportation said on Twitter. The re-entry is for areas north of Oregon Inlet.
Currituck County also announced that Priority 1 Critical Needs Pass or Priority 2 Business Pass holders will be allowed into Corolla and Carova beginning at noon Saturday. Visitors, residents and property owners are not currently allowed back into Corolla and Carova."
Residents, essential personnel cleared to reenter parts of Outer Banks Saturday
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Bahamas Paradise Cruise Lines is offering Bahamians stranded by Hurricane Dorian a way home.
The Florida-based cruise line took supplies, first responders and Bahamian evacuees in Florida to Grand Bahama Island on Thursday.
The cruise line told CNN that theGrand Celebration ship is also offering the chance for Bahamians to evacuate to Florida free of charge, given they have the proper documentation, when the ship leaves on September 7.
“Apart from the Bahamas we have no other home, so it was like the destruction was in our backyard,” CEO Oneil Khosa told CNN. “We felt like we had to do this for the people of the Bahamas and the island of Grand Bahama, especially given our history with the island.”
Bahamas Paradise said that the humanitarian cruise was the first ship allowed to dock at Freeport and will be delivering emergency personnel to Grand Bahama Island, including electricians and firemen, in addition to supplies.
A cruise line is offering free evacuations to those on Grand Bahama Island
The Florida-based cruise line took supplies, first responders and Bahamian evacuees in Florida to Grand Bahama Island on Thursday.
The cruise line told CNN that theGrand Celebration ship is also offering the chance for Bahamians to evacuate to Florida free of charge, given they have the proper documentation, when the ship leaves on September 7.
“Apart from the Bahamas we have no other home, so it was like the destruction was in our backyard,” CEO Oneil Khosa told CNN. “We felt like we had to do this for the people of the Bahamas and the island of Grand Bahama, especially given our history with the island.”
Bahamas Paradise said that the humanitarian cruise was the first ship allowed to dock at Freeport and will be delivering emergency personnel to Grand Bahama Island, including electricians and firemen, in addition to supplies.
A cruise line is offering free evacuations to those on Grand Bahama Island
70,000 people instantly homeless with nothing. I just can’t wrap my head around that number. I want to help!
Ummm- I’m all for legal immigration. But these people watched their spouses die of hypothermia, lost their 5 year old little boys to storm surges & have no idea where most of their loved ones are. Do we really think their going to have their passports & birth certificates after swimming through sharks & shipping containers during the eye of the storm? This makes me disgusted. Let’s use some common sense here. JMVHO
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I agree that all should be given aide and safe evacuation. I was surprised at the number of Americans still needing to get get off the island (over 500). I cut my own family vacation short due to Dorian and in the end we didn't even need to (but better safe than sorry IMO). We would have left the Bahamas early if we had been there too. I understand not everyone has those options, but I expect most Americans wealthy enough to take a trip to the Bahamas would also be financially able to leave when told to evacuate. Unfortunately, I fear many of the dead will end up being Haitian refugees who were living in shacks on Abaco. They had no safe structures to flee to when the storm surge came in. I was pleased to read in one of the articles I posted above that the government offices opened for thousands of refugees to shelter during the storm. I also read that the Bahamian officials have promised food and medical aide to survivors of the storm regardless of nationality/immigration status. I hope the Bahamian govt is not corrupt like the Haitian govt has been during past disasters. MOO.
Officials urged hundreds to evacuate, but at those elevations & that category- why not everyone? The journalist all over media that relocated his family & pets during the eye was in a “non evacuation zone”. Seems government really blew it in their warnings, imho.
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Editor's note: A warning that some of the images contain graphic content. (bbm & I’m in absolute tears.)
Conditions are growing increasingly dire in the Bahamas almost a week after Hurricane Dorian first made landfall in the Caribbean nation.
Food, water and other supplies are rapidly running out and residents are waiting desperately to evacuate the devastated islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama. Officials announced late Friday that the death toll had risen to 43 — 35 in Abaco and eight in Grand Bahama.
"We acknowledge that there are many missing and that the number of deaths is expected to significantly increase," Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said in a statement late Friday. "This is one of the stark realities were are facing in this hour of darkness."
Distress And Desperation In The Bahamas As Dorian Death Toll Expected To Keep Rising
Conditions are growing increasingly dire in the Bahamas almost a week after Hurricane Dorian first made landfall in the Caribbean nation.
Food, water and other supplies are rapidly running out and residents are waiting desperately to evacuate the devastated islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama. Officials announced late Friday that the death toll had risen to 43 — 35 in Abaco and eight in Grand Bahama.
"We acknowledge that there are many missing and that the number of deaths is expected to significantly increase," Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said in a statement late Friday. "This is one of the stark realities were are facing in this hour of darkness."
Distress And Desperation In The Bahamas As Dorian Death Toll Expected To Keep Rising
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From your link:
"It's going to get crazy soon," Serge Simon, 39, told the AP as he waited with his wife and two sons, 5 months old and 4, at the port in Great Abaco. "There's no food, no water. There are bodies in the water. People are going to start getting sick."
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Omg, I can hardly stand to think about it. Omg omg omg...
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They need to get every navy and cruise ship in the area headed in that direction. This is a disaster of epic proportions. I am in shock.
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