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.
various drone videos of Abaco 2014
Marsh harbor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asAEtmV2uFY
Great Guana Cay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPHLuNNrSdg
Elbow Cay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ubZMWb0WHg
Hope Town: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5oNNrs0TcI
Some of it doesn’t look too bad. Some of it looks really bad.
A lot of trees are still standing. I wonder how much he paid the pilot and where the chopper was stored during the storm?
It is easy to notice in the viedo that some buildings remain standing, even though they were no less in the path of the storm than those that lie fallen. So, with how many modern years of experience with Hurricanes have the folks of the Bahama’s failed to improve construction standards for a very well known common problem in the Carribean?? Will Dorian change that? Somehow I doubt it.
He used his super twitter-trolling powers to steer Dorian away from Mar a Lago.
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He bought the weather machine from Cheney.
Just awful.
Wow. What’s not flooded is destroyed and what’s not destroyed is flooded.
Reminds me of footage of bombed Japanese and German cities in WW2.
Yeah, they’ll try that I’m sure.
Never mind he pulled all the department heads together and held meetings the day before. Massive resources were moved to the region.
What can a president do in the moment to moment of a huricaine off shore? Nothing.
When you’re out on the golf course, your head is clear, and you can respond quickly to mobilize manpower or resources.
Leftists don’t get Capitalism, and how business is conducted.
Told the wifey Cheney was steering this thing like he did Katrina. Libs are so stupid they actually believed he was doing so.
Don’t like to see people, communities, and regions exposed to this sort of thing. Will be interesting to hear our Left attack those who handle the response in the Bahamas.
Crickets...
Isn’t it astonishing that some large homes are still standing, largely intact, while all the neighboring homes are completely flattened?
Unbelievably, somebody did complain about exactly that: (Dorian hasn’t even touched land yet and London’s Muslim Caliph thinks golf is out of the question!)https://www.foxnews.com/politics/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-trump-hurricane-dorian-golf-course
Not to sound callous, but periodic disasters like this are the price of having bragging rights to living in a tropical "paradise." Most other times we envy these people. Not today.
Who pays for restoration?
This looks much like the Florida Panhandle did right after Michal ripped through here as a Cat 5. So sad. We still have many living in campers, rv’s, even tents in some cases. Prayers for all those affected.
Yeah, wasn’t that a hoot.
Look at what’s going on in London on a daily basis, and he has the audacity to lecture others about not knowing how to govern.
How is a he gonna help anybody in the middle of a hurricane and they can’t evacuate to anywhere
Insurance.
Oh, you didn't have any?
Tough luck.
Not our islands. Not our problem.
There are a few other very well known common problems in the Caribbean that keep sturdy construction from being the standard: generational poverty and a lack of industry outside tourism, a lack of skilled tradesmen (and a plethora of unskilled ones), and an "island time" attitude of getting stuff done whenever instead of according to a strict schedule.
That said, the culture of the Caribbean Islands is built upon a certain blind optimism and carefree attitude. The cruise and resort companies will always throw money at the tourist areas and the locals will resist efforts to tighten up and spend more time in cubicles.
Bahamas is a part of the British Commonwealth, any word from Her Majesty?
Let the Brits take care of it.
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