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Hurricane Dorian leaves Bahamas in ruins, Helicopter Footage It's Gone
Facebook ^ | 09/03/2019 | ??

Posted on 09/03/2019 11:57:15 AM PDT by mplc51

WOW, this video is unreal. Many people have to be missing or killed.


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KEYWORDS: bahamas; dorian; hurricane; hurricanedorian
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To: Nateman
...you could have been in it's eye and walked with it. Perhaps some survived that way.

Yes, Josh Morgerman among them. His car actually started and he drove some folks to a better shelter during the eye (he was in a concrete block school). At the new shelter there were people who walked or swam there (there was 20 feet or more of surge).

101 posted on 09/03/2019 3:44:23 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: Centurion2000

Wrong. An F5 tornado has WAY higher wind speeds that CAT5 hurricane. F5 tornado goes from 265-318 mph., CAT5 hurricane is 185 and up.


102 posted on 09/03/2019 3:46:10 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: Wuli
construction standards

Exactly. My deck is constructed better than some of those houses. It has hurricane straps on all joists and is bolted into the concrete footers.

103 posted on 09/03/2019 3:46:54 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: Centurion2000

Yeah, I am still waiting to see 185/225 damage. So far I have not. That said, the storm had a cat 5 appearance on satellite and Josh Morgerman, a storm chaser, measured 813.4 mb in the eye. That means cat 5 wind for the compact wind field that the storm had at that point.


104 posted on 09/03/2019 3:49:58 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: mplc51

most of what you see is water borne debris scattered on wastelanf including what seems to be marshy

The video shows many many buildings including houses intact with shingles still on

The presence of 40 foot containers well inland indicated very high water.


105 posted on 09/03/2019 3:51:08 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.btyC. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: thoughtomator
That's not the island that got the 24+ hours of it! That's video of Acabo...

Abaco got the strongest winds.

106 posted on 09/03/2019 3:54:12 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: palmer
Dorian moved through Abaco fairly quickly, at which point it sat on top of Grand Bahama Island for most of 36 hours. Much of the island no longer exists.
107 posted on 09/03/2019 4:00:28 PM PDT by thoughtomator (... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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To: Wuli
The Bahamas has some limestone. They will need to import the natural gas to calcinate the limestone.

And diesel for the excavation and crushers, etc.

108 posted on 09/03/2019 4:01:46 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: thoughtomator
at which point it sat on top of Grand Bahama Island for most of 36 hours

Yes, but it was weaker by then.

Much of the island no longer exists.

Uh no. Look at the pictures and maps posted so far. Part of it was underwater, including the airport. But at least half was above water with less wind damage than Abaco.

109 posted on 09/03/2019 4:06:19 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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To: thoughtomator

I wonder how Bloomberg’s place held up.


110 posted on 09/03/2019 4:08:12 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: thoughtomator
Thanks for that link .. Facebutt is EVIL
111 posted on 09/03/2019 4:10:29 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: mplc51

Very sad. Looks like we are sending Coast Guard help at a minimum. This is an independent Commonwealth, previously a UK entity until the 1970’s. I wonder who’s going to pick up the tab for this recovery?


112 posted on 09/03/2019 5:22:04 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: mplc51

The mayor of London is on the way with a boatload of burkas and knives. /yes, I know this is not a time for sarcasm.

I would be interested in what West End Bahamas looks like as I spent honeymoon there at Jack Tar Village.


113 posted on 09/03/2019 6:31:54 PM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans beliCNN eve every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: I want the USA back

Looking ahead along the cone track Dorian is projected to hit Martha’s Vinyard. I wonder what those pilling for a Mar-a-lago hit will say if Obama’s
newly bought beach house gets hit? Edgerton’s elevation is listed as merely 17 feet. Bahamas level storm surge would put the new party house, and all the old Teddy K memorial sites, under water.


114 posted on 09/03/2019 7:13:02 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (waiting for the tweets to hatch)
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To: JohnBovenmyer
I wonder what those pilling for a Mar-a-lago hit will say if Obama’s newly bought beach house gets hit?

Wouldn't that be ironic?

115 posted on 09/03/2019 7:20:48 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: JohnBovenmyer

pilling = pulling


116 posted on 09/03/2019 7:26:40 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (waiting for the tweets to hatch)
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To: mplc51

The Clintons will swoop in and steal all the money send in to help the victims.


117 posted on 09/03/2019 7:26:54 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: FreedomFtr

Convoy of Hope out of Springfield MO.

https://www.convoyofhope.org/


118 posted on 09/03/2019 8:17:45 PM PDT by CARDINALRULES (Tough times never last -Tough people do. DK57 --RIP 6-22-02)
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To: JohnBovenmyer
Dorian is projected to hit Martha’s Vinyard...

It's the Trump curse. Those who wish ill towards our President have the ill happen to them.

119 posted on 09/03/2019 8:40:52 PM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong. I)
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To: Nateman
Trump got hold of the Rove Weather Machine.....


120 posted on 09/03/2019 8:44:31 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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