PARADISE LOST IN THE BAHAMAS..
https://news.yahoo.com/desperate-calls-help-flooded-bahamas-islands-213619761.html
The AFP:
“Anybody who can help me, this is Kendra Williams. I live in Heritage. We are under water; we are up in the ceiling.
"Can someone please assist us or send some help. Please.”
“Me and my six grandchildren and my son, we are in the ceiling.”
The text message was forwarded to AFP by Yasmin Rigby, a resident of Freeport. Authorities in the hurricane-hammered Bahamas said they were getting many such dire-sounding pleas for help.
“We’re getting a lot of frantic people calling in,” Don Cornish, the Grand Bahama disaster manager, told NPR.
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AP:
Relief officials reported scenes of utter ruin Tuesday in parts of the Bahamas and rushed to deal with an unfolding humanitarian crisis in the wake of Hurricane Dorian, the most powerful storm on record ever to hit the islands. At least seven deaths were reported, with the full scope of the disaster still unknown.
The storm’s punishing winds and muddy brown floodwaters destroyed or severely damaged thousands of homes, crippled hospitals and trapped people in attics.
“It’s total devastation. It’s decimated. Apocalyptic,” said Lia Head-Rigby, who helps run a local hurricane relief organization and flew over the Bahamas’ hard-hit Abaco Islands. “It’s not rebuilding something that was there; we have to start again.”
She said her representative on Abaco told her that there were “a lot more dead” and that the bodies were being gathered. The prime minister also expected more deaths and predicted that rebuilding would require “a massive, coordinated effort.”
Source: https://apnews.com/10633adb197f40f9bcbe584c0d9037a5
CBS NEWS:
“My grandson’s dead. I’d just seen my grandson about two days ago. My grandson just tell me he loves me,” said Ingrid McIntosh.
Much of the islands now resemble a wasteland. Homes torn inside out, cars destroyed, trees stripped and toppled, residential streets now rushing rivers. Tim Aylen filmed himself and his family Tuesday fleeing their Freeport home in dangerously rising waters, their dogs in tow, exhausted.
Major infrastructure has been rendered useless. The Grand Bahama International Airport, for example, is under water. That’s just one of the challenges rescuers face in the midst of such destruction. (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-dorian-desperate-search-for-survivors-underway-after-devastates-bahamas-2019-09-03/)
All of this is heart wrenching beyond wildest nightmares…
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