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Hurricane Dorian leaves Bahamas in ruins, Helicopter Footage It's Gone
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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: bgill

Yes, I know.


81 posted on 09/03/2019 1:49:23 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: Chgogal
Buildings might survive the winds, but what survives the storm surges?

The second floor

82 posted on 09/03/2019 1:50:45 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: bgill

Actually, it is not that terribly expensive for the terrain of the Bahamas to greatly improve housing construction such that a majority of houses would survive a hurricane.

Very large buildings that resorts build are usually strong enough to prevent most major damages.

They prefer low land near the shore.

Small homes can be built into the hillsides with cement walls, where the hill itself shelters the building from one or more direction, and cement walls and hurrican resistent doors and windows secure the rest. The hillside can even provide the roof, with windows only facing out from the hillside.

But doing that would take a utopian government arranged plan, with all the incursions against freedoms that would entail.

On the other hand, a bunch of smart developers could gradually do it bit by bit, building affordable hurricane resistant housing & even shops, into the hillsides, buying lowland properties in exchange for the hillside homes, and continuing resort development hi rises nearer the shore. Over a decade or two they can transform an island state like the Bahamas.

On the other hand again, like all utopian plans, it could wind up resembling plastic-like Disneyland and have all the local charm of an AI program.

Best leave the changes to what the folks can organically work out by their own choices.


83 posted on 09/03/2019 1:51:44 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: I want the USA back

They’re working on it, feverishly.


84 posted on 09/03/2019 1:59:26 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: FreedomFtr
https://www.gofundme.com/f/hurricane-dorian-bahamas-recover-fund

https://boatingindustry.com/news/2019/09/03/nautical-ventures-organizes-bahamas-hurricane-relief-effort/

Roger Moore is CEO of Nautical Ventures. He is organizing a flotilla to get to the Bahamas ASAP.

Here is a list of where and what to donate:
https://www.local10.com/weather/hurricane/heres-how-to-donate-help-bahamas-recover-from-dorian

https://www.jupitermag.com/noteworthy/ways-support-bahamas-after-hurricane-dorian

85 posted on 09/03/2019 2:04:23 PM PDT by Chgogal (Trump: Make America Great Again. Democrat: Make America Mexico Again.)
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To: mplc51

The people themselves or the Brits. It is their protectorate . The US should charge the Brits and their extremely wealthy royalty . No US taxpayer money that isn’t reimbursed.


86 posted on 09/03/2019 2:06:52 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I wonder if those large homes are made of concrete and all of the rest of the home are made of wood.


87 posted on 09/03/2019 2:12:18 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: mplc51
I’m sure the governments of Haiti and Puerto Rico will show them how to rebuild . 🙄
88 posted on 09/03/2019 2:18:45 PM PDT by raybbr (The left is a poison on society. There is no antidote. Running its course will be painful. You)
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To: raybbr

Puerto RIco is pretty much back to normal, although the media won’t tell you that.


89 posted on 09/03/2019 2:20:25 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: kaktuskid

She is very busy right now dealing with Randy Andy scandal in regards with his escapades with Jeffrey Epstein on Orgy Island..


90 posted on 09/03/2019 2:24:03 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: FreedomFtr
Baptist Global Response.

https://gobgr.org/

91 posted on 09/03/2019 2:30:58 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Chgogal

“Ground” floors nearest the shore would be on pilons, not at sea level. The “beach” should be expected to be lost in giant storms. Some places inland that should it sill be expected to see the most massive possible storm surge, dikes can be built as well as water handling channels there only for storm surge occasions. There should always be some “green spaces” where possible, between the shoreline and human occupied land, that is expected to flood in storms and provide some natural brake on storm surges. Those kind of protections would be less expensive than the repeated governmenmt insurance bailouts.


92 posted on 09/03/2019 2:31:12 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Renegade
Anything bad that happens when a Republican is President is the President's fault. Anything bad that happens when a Democrat is President is the fault of the most recent Republican President.

If Obama had been President in 2001 and had played golf on the day after the 9/11 attacks, the media would not have found fault with him for it.

93 posted on 09/03/2019 2:35:03 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Bonemaker

ROFL ROFL Thank you for the laugh I needed that. It is so true Everything that Democrats touches gets destroyed far worse as if nature destroyed it.


94 posted on 09/03/2019 2:42:52 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Wuli

A prudent investment at this time would be a cement plant on Grand Bahama that makes concrete blocks using local sand. Since all the building materials have to be shipped in from CONUS concrete is likely very expensive due to its weight. So people went with wood. No more of these cheap stick houses.


95 posted on 09/03/2019 2:48:35 PM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Memory Lane is a street. You take a trip down Memory Lane. You step back in time.


96 posted on 09/03/2019 3:03:54 PM PDT by webheart
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To: Justa

You ar probably right. The portland cement part of cement would likely have to have some portion of its ingrediaents imported, but then local sources might be available for the sand and gravel needed to be bound by the portland cement (cement is often a mix of portland cement, sand and gravel).

“By mass, lime and silica make up approximately 85% of portland cement. The materials that are commonly used are limestone, shells, chalk, shale, clay, slate, silica sand, and iron ore. Since limestone is the main component, often cement plants are located near limestone quarries.”

that from a wiki entry


97 posted on 09/03/2019 3:04:25 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Justa

I’ll contact you if I win the lotto big.


98 posted on 09/03/2019 3:05:08 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: I want the USA back
Will someone blame Trump?

No but if we're not first on site to help those impacted and vocal in our support and our aid then people will blame Trump and well they should.

99 posted on 09/03/2019 3:31:03 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: mplc51

Wow, prayers for the victims and their loved ones. What devastation. I was insulated from news all weekend, just heard that the storm basically sat on top of the Bahamas barely crawling along, dumping its energy over those poor people. Keeps things in perspective.


100 posted on 09/03/2019 3:40:35 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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