Hurricane Dorian causes huge damage and flooding in the Bahamas, Sept 2019

[petee]

I don't think you needed to point that out, TBH.

hey, it's trumpworld.

 

[Nylock]

if machine gunning doesn't work ...

That has to be a pisstake. I know he's not FEMA, but surely that's some random comedian...?

 

[petee]

That has to be a pisstake. I know he's not FEMA, but surely that's some random comedian...?

i can't say for sure but I think it's for real.
"my ideas are just as good as those elite scientists' !"

 

[Nylock]

Dear god.......

 

[krtek a houby]

That has to be a pisstake. I know he's not FEMA, but surely that's some random comedian...?

Dropping ICE in the sea would be a great idea, mind

 

[farmerbarleymow]

i can't say for sure but I think it's for real.
"my ideas are just as good as those elite scientists' !"

At least dropping ice into the ocean is much safer (if still useless) than nuking the storm. So he's brighter than the orange fuckwit.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Satellite image, with the previous land boundary marked in yellow

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Jesus, that's bad.

 

[cupid_stunt]

It's stalled over the Bahamas, moving just 12 miles in a day.

Eyewitness videos and reports painted a picture of massive and widespread flooding, with panicked families fleeing to their roofs to escape rising floodwaters.

Clint Watson, a journalist based in the capital Nassau, said people in Grand Bahama were being hit with "buckets of rain" and posting videos online showing water rising to the windows of their attics.

Pleas for help as hurricane stalls over Bahamas

 

[editor]

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[ferrelhadley]

Dorian dumped about 1m of rain on Grand Bahama.

 

[ska invita]

This video....needs volume up....put some tunes on, go for a drive....

 

[ferrelhadley]

Any US East Coast urbanites, probably does not need saying but pay attention to the National Hurricane Center warnings, this storm is moving adjacent to the coast and will bring serious flooding with it.
Small changes in track could produce major shifts in expected wind, storm surge and rain conditions.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Scale of Bahamas hurricane devastation emerges

 

[SpookyFrank]

Hard to see how countries like the Bahamas can even continue to exist long term. Add sea level rises to the increasing ferocity of these storms and it doesn't look good at all. I can't imagine what it must feel like to have to contemplate oblivion on that scale

 

[ferrelhadley]

Hard to see how countries like the Bahamas can even continue to exist long term. Add sea level rises to the increasing ferocity of these storms and it doesn't look good at all. I can't imagine what it must feel like to have to contemplate oblivion on that scale

Dorian was a one off freak so far as the Bahamas was concerned, its track and strength were one in one hundred years at least. Its stalling at that point perhaps rarer still.
Buildings can be built to resist even storms as strong as Dorian, some building codes in places like Maimi Dade stipulate being able to resist certain storm strengths but paying for it in places like the Bahamas is different issue.
We are expecting something between 0.5-1m sea level over the coming 80 years. Some towns will have to move but I do not think that alone would force the abandonment of the whole of those islands.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Dorian was a one off freak so far as the Bahamas was concerned, its track and strength were one in one hundred years at least. Its stalling at that point perhaps rarer still.
Buildings can be built to resist even storms as strong as Dorian, some building codes in places like Maimi Dade stipulate being able to resist certain storm strengths but paying for it in places like the Bahamas is different issue.
We are expecting something between 0.5-1m sea level over the coming 80 years. Some towns will have to move but I do not think that alone would force the abandonment of the whole of those islands.

I hope you're right of course. But I can't help but notice that 'one every hundred years' or 'one every thousand years' events are cropping up two years out of three at the moment.

 

[ferrelhadley]

On Thursday Health Minister Duane Sands warned of a "staggering" final count.

"The public needs to prepare for unimaginable information about the death toll and the human suffering," he told local radio.

Bahamas death toll 'staggering' after hurricane

This storm and its track were terrifying. 30 dead so far and we can hope that is near the total, but a category 5 storm sitting near stationary for 24 hours is close to the worst case imaginable. I fear the final total will only be worked out from the missing rather than the recovered.

 

[ferrelhadley]

Officials say hundreds, possibly thousands, are still missing in the Abacos and Grand Bahama.

Bahamas death toll expected to be 'staggering'

Apparently the hurricane holds the record for the second slowest moving hurricane ever recorded, showing the stall over the Bahamas was near unprecedented together with it being the joint highest winds of any land falling Atlantic hurricane. The destructive power over those islands may have been as great as any storm in recorded history.

 

[wayward bob]

i've been transfixed for the past week. hourly updates and everything.

never sure if i've sent contributions into the ether or actually to people in need. ifrc were first to release funds so i went with them...

 

[ferrelhadley]

Bahamas death toll 'staggering' after hurricane

This storm and its track were terrifying. 30 dead so far and we can hope that is near the total, but a category 5 storm sitting near stationary for 24 hours is close to the worst case imaginable. I fear the final total will only be worked out from the missing rather than the recovered.

1300 still missing.
Bahamas after Dorian: 1,300 people missing nearly 2 weeks after hurricane, official says - CNN