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
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.
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.
He “was forced” by whom?
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.
Love creates miracles...
Severely disabled people should not be living in a potentially dangerous place, and, if they really want to, they should have a rescue plan.
It had to be horrific.
Not sure why the reporter chose to say he was “forced” to carry his son. No one was forcing him to carry his son, he did that out of love, compassion, many other reasons but he was not forced to carry him.
Nothing could've been done to avoid the tragedy that unfolded. The storm was too unpredictable to anticipate which islands to evacuate in time. There was a danger that any evacuation would've brought people into the eye of the storm.
It's foreign to us that man isn't in charge all the time. My heart goes out to those wonderful and grateful (by all accounts) people. They do seem to be welcoming of the help they receive.