BAHAMAS DESTRUCTION: First Aerial Footage, Hurricane Dorian, CNN

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(CNN, Sept. 3, 19)..Dorian is moving north after battering the Bahamas. Miles of debris from houses smashed apart by the hurricane stretched Tuesday across the landscape of the Bahamas' Great Abaco Island as the deadly storm left behind a paradise obliterated. The storm's death toll, which officials fear will rise sharply, stands at seven people, according to Prime Minister Hubert Minnis.

On Great Abaco, high winds remained but the rain had subsided Tuesday as residents emerged to gasp at the incredible devastation. Huge piles of rubble were what remained of businesses and homes wrecked by the strongest storm to hit the islands, aerial video showed.It's difficult to tell whether one scene shows a neighborhood or an industrial center. The ruin was immense; the area had been turned into what looked from above like a floating landfill. Shipping containers were tossed among the rubble.

Brandon Clement, who was in a helicopter over the island, told CNN that even new homes constructed under more stringent building codes were destroyed by the storm. One older neighborhood is gone, he said. "You can't tell that there are any homes there. It looks like a bunch of building materials were put in a big grinder and thrown on the ground," he said.

The Prime Minister told reporters after returning from an aerial tour of Great Abaco that he estimated there was damage to 60% of the homes there. According to a 2010 census, 17,224 people lived on the Abacos and there were about 5,200 occupied houses, apartments and townhomes with an additional 2,916 vacant units. "We have been attacked by a vicious, devastating storm (from which there was no defense)," Minnis told CNN...More, https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/03/us/hurricane-dorian-tuesday-wxc/index.html

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1. I can't imagine...

what it would be like staying there, not evacuating, and riding that storm out. Hours on end of 180 mph winds tearing at your very soul. Total devastation. I'll have to donate to the Red Cross or whatever organization that is helping these poor people get their lives back together.

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2. How serious is the situation in the Bahamas??? CRITICAL-that is how serious

Forget about Food...the other two critical needs for SURVIVAL - WATER & SHELTER are basically non-existent...

Forget about Electricity - but then there is lack of sanitation and the disease crisis that will be coming soon if the basic infrastructure doesn't exist to treat sewage and all drinking water is contaminated.