Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of our fellow humans are dead in the Bahamas

[NewsCenter28]

Sadly:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/05/us/hurricane-dorian-bahamas-aid-wxc/index.html

"Literally hundreds, up to thousands, of people are still missing," Joy Jibrilu, director general of the country's tourism and aviation ministry, told CNN's Michael Holmes

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[malaise]

1. This was a catastrophic hurricane

Many many people are dead

[appalachiablue]

2. Bahamas PM is coming up now on CNN, with AC. Horrible tragedy!

[lpbk2713]

3. As if the strong winds weren't bad enough.

It lingered quite a while and that made it more deadly.

[mopinko]

4. it's making me crazy that the talking heads give the double digit current toll,

and say- i COULD go up.
ya think? jebus. how about will most certainly go way, way, way up.

it will be in the thousands. tens of thousands of houses destroyed. c'mon man.

[Blue_true]

5. I read a quote from a Bahamian person that surveyed his area.

He said "everything is destroyed, everything is gone, there is nothing but bodies left". I took the last to mean that he was seeing lots of corpses.

[smirkymonkey]

6. Oh god, how devastating.

What is even worse is knowing that this administration does not care and will do as little as possible to help them. It will be up to the rest of us to donate to get them back on their feet again.

[mopinko]

7. worse than katrina.

we will never even know.

[UniteFightBack]

8. CNN had a reporter on the ground featured during Cuomo and he didn't want to get too graphic

with that he has seen but he said the smell of death is everywhere. When that storm was coming on shore I was going out running errands and I felt very badly because I knew at that moment people were going through literal hell and I'm about to go out shopping!

[PufPuf23]

9. Early today I watched a video of a helicopter flight over

somewhere in the Bahamas, not sure exactly where.

The flight was from the shore to inland of an urbanized area and the impact appeared to be utter destruction.

My mind immediately went to where did the people go for safety?

There did not appear to even be a safe zone where a helicopter to land to stage recovery effort.

Hope the Navy and Marines, plus their ships and air support, and many medical folks are headed that way now.

Aside: What are reports out of Cuba?

[Demovictory9]

10. And trump posted 5 tweets about hurricane/alabama gate