Posted on 09/09/2019 7:57:34 PM PDT by Rebelbase
Government has left the damages untouched and bodies littered in communities across the islands in Abaco and Grand Bahama…..New hotline established for the missing – 1-242-323-1877
Bodies loaded onto a plane from Abaco into Nassau on Saturday. Photo by CNN
NASSAU| Observers on the ground are now telling Bahamas Press that over 3,000 residents on Grand Bahama and ABACO could be confirmed dead in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian.
The numbers are “staggering” just as the Minister of Health Dr. Duane Sands suggested last week. The government though continues to confirm the number to be a mere 43 confirmed victims in one of the deadliest disasters on record in the Bahamas. That number is far much higher.
This shocking report by agencies on the ground proves that the Minnis Administration has led the worst and most chaotic management of a natural disaster ever in the history of the Bahamas. A mammoth task indeed for the sitting director of NEMA, Capt. Stephen Russell, who had to welcome the architect of NEMA Carl Smith out of retirement which began only a few weeks ago.
Sources inside NEMA tell us the guidelines left in place for the management of a Natural Disaster were never followed and the results are staggering indeed.
Thousands dead, airborne diseases, no proper sanitation and mounds of garbage litter the streets of two major cities in The Bahamas. And garbage infestation could only breathe the troubles of serious health consequences of residents in the affected areas. But who is going to take charge?
Remember – the last time Minnis led the response to a disaster was during his term as Minister of Health when scores died from dengue? This is serious.
Only BP has reported how the Minnis Cabinet ordered some 200 body bags on Tuesday from a pharmaceutical in the capital, and by Thursday an additional order in the triple digits was made. No one can deny these facts!
Additionally, Ministry of Social Services and Urban Development advised the general public that a phone line has been established at the Disaster Management Unit, Department of Social Services, dedicated for use by those members of the general public wishing to register the name (s) of family members whom they have been unable to contact since the passage of Hurricane Dorian: 323-1877.
In East End Grand Bahama some 73 persons are unaccounted for along with would include persons in the communities of Mclain’s Town, Pelican Bay, and High Rock. And in High Rock one reported to the local press how some 11 members of her family have perished in Hurricane Dorian.
In the Mudd and Pea in Abaco alone, the number could swell to over 3,000 alone as residents in that lowland area never evacuated as floodwaters washed away their homes during the storm.
Maybe many of those victims will never be found. Thousands are feared dead in what is being described as the worst environmental and ecological disaster to hit the Bahamas.
That would be more than 1 in 6 residents.
Horrible
Um, that was an extremely fierce storm that sat on the island. Pretty difficult to deal with this level of a disaster.
“This shocking report by agencies on the ground proves that the Minnis Administration has led the worst and most chaotic management of a natural disaster ever in the history of the Bahamas.”
This doesn’t suprise me, that storm surge was 30 feet high.
Why the hell are the Bahamian authorities NOT launching operations to recover and remove the bodies?
Some 70,000 refugees will be registered Democrat voters in Florida by this time next year. Book it.
“This shocking report by agencies on the ground proves that the Minnis Administration has led the worst and most chaotic management of a natural disaster ever in the history of the Bahamas.”
Doesn’t matter...the left will make this Trump’s fault.
It’s always somehow “Orange man bad”.
185 mph sustained winds with gusts over 200 and 30 foot storm surge. Not much anyone can do against the power of a hurricane like that. Thousands probably washed out to sea.
Were are the Brits?
“Why the hell are the Bahamian authorities NOT launching operations to recover and remove the bodies?”
They’re waiting for US to do it.
Where's the UK ?
I wonder how many were swept out to sea, never to be found?
But they'll blame Trump, somehow.
The governments of the Bahamas, US and UK knew how bad the storm was likely to be days in advance.
Residents should have been ordered to higher ground, if any, or evacuated.
The British Commonwealth needs to get on this immediately.
100% correct. Failure to evacuate from low lying islands (as often required in Outer Banks, Florida Keys etc) led to ,massive loss of life here. Typical 3rd world outcome when disaster hits.
Libs whine about FEMA but it’s light-years ahead of most.
What?
This is the first I've heard of death numbers above low double digits, but I do remember the what? three days? the storm just sat on an island and made mayonnaise out of everything.
Tragic, but no one could have prepared for THIS one and the ones that lived were just a little stronger or quicker to leave and/or shelter in.
Just don't go blaming anyone for anything
My thoughts exactly.
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