Bahamas in crisis after Hurricane Dorian as rescuers search for survivors via ReutersTV
MARSH HARBOUR, Bahamas - Survivors of Hurricane Dorian on Wednesday picked through the wreckage of homes ripped open by fierce winds, struggled to fuel generators and queued for food after one of the most powerful Caribbean storms on record devastated parts of the Bahamas.
“We are in the midst of one of the greatest national crises in our country’s history,” Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis told a news conference. “We can expect more deaths to be recorded. This is just preliminary information.” “Victims are being loaded on flatbed trucks across Abaco,” one Twitter user with the handle @mvp242 said, describing a rain-blurred photograph of limp bodies strewn across a truck bed.
South Carolina officials said they were expecting storm surges of four to eight feet and wind gusts of 90 mph on Thursday, and told people to evacuate the coast as Dorian drew closer. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp extended a state of emergency to cover 21 counties. The emergency covers more than 900,000 Georgia residents, of whom over 400,000 have been ordered to evacuate, according to the state Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency.
Trump said the United States was sending supplies to the Bahamas, including materials that had been originally intended for Dorian victims in Florida. A single Facebook post by media outlet Our News Bahamas seeking the names of missing people had 2,000 comments listing lost family members since it went live on Tuesday, although some of the comments were also about loved ones being found.
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