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First aerial images from Bahamas....CNN. Great Abaco Island (Original Post)
spanone
Sep 2019
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malaise
(268,693 posts)1. Yes this looks like tornado damage
or tsunami damage
liberal N proud
(60,332 posts)6. All of the above combined
malaise
(268,693 posts)7. Yep
sheshe2
(83,654 posts)2. 13K Houses damaged or destroyed.
Heart breaking.
spanone
(135,791 posts)8. hard to believe.
sheshe2
(83,654 posts)9. How do you ever come back from that?
spanone
(135,791 posts)10. I'm sure the main industry is tourism....and that is certainly gone for now.
sheshe2
(83,654 posts)12. That is what I was thinking.
Tourism is their main source of income, it has to be.
lpbk2713
(42,736 posts)3. What a mess.
Devastation everywhere. It was a powerful storm and it remained stationary for a long time.
jcgoldie
(11,612 posts)5. I'm horrified about what the death toll might be
shanti
(21,675 posts)11. I know it may seem unimportant
but what about the swimming pigs? They are also on Abaco Island. I wonder if they survived?