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Bahamas
Sept 5, 2019 17:41:37 GMT
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Post by Former Propkicker on Sept 5, 2019 17:41:37 GMT
I'm 50 miles from Bahamas. Some aid boats are on site.
A marina buddy is friends with a aid worker who texted him some horrid images.
It's much worse than what's reported. He showed me images of bodies everywhere. Those floating in the harbors are being eaten by sharks.
This is the stuff of nightmares. I had to share this somewhere but not Facebook.
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Bahamas
Sept 5, 2019 18:30:37 GMT
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Post by kenergy on Sept 5, 2019 18:30:37 GMT
Its unimaginable. The way that storm sat on top of the island for so long, and at such intensity.
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Post by redneck joe on Sept 5, 2019 19:47:06 GMT
Surge of two stories, with 30" of rain.
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Bahamas
Sept 5, 2019 20:51:03 GMT
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Post by Former Propkicker on Sept 5, 2019 20:51:03 GMT
Some folks drowned in their attics
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Post by redneck joe on Sept 5, 2019 21:50:10 GMT
Like katrina. Never go to attic unless you have an escape route from there or a saw.
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Post by Someone you know on Sept 6, 2019 14:49:24 GMT
Just starting to see some stories on the news that is saying "Thousands of casualties".
Makes me wonder. Was there no place that people could have gone to escape the winds and surge? Higher ground? Concrete structures?
An absolutely terrible and horrific event. May peace be with all those lost souls.
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Bahamas
Sept 6, 2019 17:26:53 GMT
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Post by Former Propkicker on Sept 6, 2019 17:26:53 GMT
There were few places to hide from a storm like this. The highest point of land on any of these islands is 30 '.
Despite being the playground for the rich, the people are pretty poor. Homes are not well constructed.
Many were swept in the ocean and will never be found.
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Bahamas
Sept 6, 2019 19:35:22 GMT
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Post by Former Propkicker on Sept 6, 2019 19:35:22 GMT
They are now saying the death toll may be in the thousands.
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Post by redneck joe on Sept 7, 2019 10:18:48 GMT
Wouldn't be suprised. Fox is starting to report on it now.
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Post by BoatBabe on Sept 10, 2019 1:14:05 GMT
What a horrible inside story. I feel that stories and pictures have been extremely slow coming out of the Bahamas, which is never a good thing.
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Post by Girlyman on Sept 10, 2019 17:15:34 GMT
The USCG and the Bahama gov't have issued statements to stay away from the affected islands. Food, electric, fuel, communications and aids to navigation are nonexistent. The storm caused harbor shoaling and destroyed all wharfs and docks. People are in a desperate survival mode and civility is absent along with law enforcement. Looting is a matter of survival, not opportunity. The smell of death - human and animal - is everywhere.
This is what you don't hear on the news.
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Post by boatless-NO MORE on Sept 10, 2019 18:14:26 GMT
Just starting to see some stories on the news that is saying "Thousands of casualties". Makes me wonder. Was there no place that people could have gone to escape the winds and surge? Higher ground? Concrete structures? An absolutely terrible and horrific event. May peace be with all those lost souls. a young woman and crew from channel 10 Miami stayed in Marsh Harbor during the storm, they went into a 3 story concret hotel when the eye was getting close, they showed film of water in the stairwell and under the door of their room on the 3rd floor. |
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Post by redneck joe on Sept 10, 2019 19:54:14 GMT
26 foot surge.
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