Bahamas Residents Chest-Deep in Hurricane Dorian Flood Waters

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Residents in Freeport, Bahamas have fled their flooded homes to seek higher ground, Tuesday, September 3 as the island nation continues to feel the devastating effects of Hurricane Dorian.

In this footage, Tim Aylen, a Bahamian journalist working with The Associated Press, along with his daughter, Julia Aylen, and their dogs waded through chest-deep water to find a safer place to stay.

United Nations officials estimate more than 60,000 people in the northwest Bahamas will need food following the catastrophic natural disaster left from Hurricane Dorian.

A spokesman for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said Tuesday about 45% of homes in Grand Bahama and Abaco were severely damaged or destroyed.

? Hurricane Dorian relentlessly battered Grand Bahama Island on Tuesday, even as the powerful storm began to edge closer to the mainland U.S. in the southern state of Florida.

Dorian, packing sustained winds of 175 kilometers an hour with higher gusts, was classified as a Category 2 storm, diminished from when it first slammed into the Bahamas as a most dangerous Category 5 hurricane and stalled over the popular vacation mecca. At the same time, however, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said the storm is growing larger.

Forecasters continued to describe Dorian as “extremely dangerous” as it moved northwestward toward the Florida coast at 4 kilometers an hour. Forecasters predicted Dorian would advance “slightly faster” later Tuesday before turning northward along the country’s eastern seaboard by Wednesday night.

https://www.voanews.com/usa/dorian-batters-bahamas-first-deaths-confirmed

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34 Comments

  1. AND THEY WOULDN'T PUT AWAY THE DAMN CAMERA AND FIND THEMSELVES TO SAFETY,,,SOCIAL MEDIA WILL KILL SOME OF YOU ALL … YOU THINK YOU NEED TO GET VIDEO FOOTAGE BECAUSE THE WORLD WOULDN'T BELIEVE THERE WAS A TERRIBLE HURRICANE ????

  2. Go through all that …..and get turned away by trump….but theyre white so maybe trump will let them in, just not the dog….the dog look like a drug dealer

  3. I’m speechless ? my heart goes out to you god watch over all your creations an creatures while in California people getting weaves fighting over lovers while my people fighting for their lives peace be unto us islanders .

  4. I am so glad I never had to do it but I wouldn't think twice. I see the look in that dog's face, he's stressed out. I'm so happy everyone made it. I don't even want to think about the pets who weren't as lucky.

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