Posted on 09/07/2019 4:54:26 AM PDT by RummyChick
A blind man was forced to carry his disabled adult son on his shoulders in chin-deep water as Hurricane Dorian tore apart their home in the Bahamas.
Brent Lowe, 49, rushed to save his 24-year-old son who has cerebral palsy when the deadly hurricane bore down on their home in the Abaco Islands on Sunday with 220 mph winds.
Lowe, who has been blind for 11 years, told the New York Times that there were eight people sheltering in his cement home when the hurricane first made landfall.
They were huddling together in the bathroom when the storm tore the roof off his home.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
A hero.
And Joe Biden was right there with him. Brian Ross did the reporting.
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On Guam, the houses must have concrete roofs.
If the Bahamas had that requirement this would not have happened
here is the original story
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/world/americas/hurricane-dorian-survival-story.html
The Brown Shirt Media was all geared up to “Katrina” Trump with this hurricane. Unfortunately all the destruction occurred in a foreign country. Even so, they are still trying.
And Joe Biden was right there with him. Brian Ross did the reporting.
Well, if it were Brian WILLIAMS, reporting, Brian would’ve carried the father and son on his shoulders....while filing his report.
Not sure what your point was. Are you saying this man is lying?
Let them try.
Makes them look like even bigger @ss liars than they already do.
It’s called a “joke”.
Geez....
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This is a good human interest story, and I am glad they both survived.
But today’s journalism really sucks on so many levels. The title of this piece says he was forced. Now those that have yet to read it could assume by the way the title was written that possibly the police forced him at gun point or some other means of coercion were used to make this blind man wade through flood waters and on top of that, forced to carry another person!
This man was not forced, it was his choice to either die or take charge and save both of them. He is a hero, not a victim.
Lol..good one!
He “was forced” by whom?
That’s what I was going to say.
And Brian Williams was carving the trail.
Any sane thinking person has to have at least a little bit of sympathy for those folks. But, at the same time, they live in effin’ shacks. I’ll go out on a limb and say that the Bahamian building inspectors and code enforcement guys aren’t all over the place making sure these areas are built to whatever code they have down there.
A co-worker of mine has lots of family in Puerto Rico. He has said that they storm was pretty bad, BUT, the area that got hit the hardest were the shacks and the shanty towns. He said that the rest of the island, especially the resort areas, bounced back in no time and weren’t hit that bad compared to some of the rhetoric that went around. In fact, lots of folks have been going there for vacations, as they PR tries get the money flowing again and pretty much everyone has said it was great.
Does anyone not understand that cnn was hyping the storm to drum up interest in their climate debate? They are liars
A great example of real love.
You and some other people on here have some serious first word bias. Do you think these people choose to live in a plywood shanty? How exactly are they supposed to afford a house built to cat 3 hurricane standards? It’s no different here either. Do you know how many people live in mobile homes because they can’t afford a house that meets the required hurricane codes? Are they better off?
They may have been drumming the story up but that storm and what it did to the Bahama’s is a bit more than the climate change debate.
Love creates miracles...
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