Posted on 09/03/2019 1:11:15 PM PDT by Red Badger
I was just going to say I think some of the “standing” concrete buildings are probably total losses. A function of some force.
Wow!
And the danger isn’t over when the Hurricane leaves, big risk for diseases.
Check out the video on an earlier thread, a helicopter flies for a long time over this stuff, I do not know how any could have survived.
Probably during the storm surge. Most of that will recede.
Just horrible those poor people..:(
Well at least until Global Warming covers it all.
“”It reminds me a bit of Japan after the Tsunami, that’s storm surge.””
That’s right - I completely forgot about that. Who can forget how that came ashore and took out everything in its path. Some of the videos are available and you can’t believe how it progressed through everything...up to the hillside where people were running for their lives from the flat land.
I’m not totally certain what “storm surge” means. We came from CA and the most we had to worry about were earthquakes (which didn’t keep us awake at night worrying about them happening), fires, mud slides etc. I remember the term being used through Katrina maybe for the first time but didn’t really understand it.
I fear that the death toll will be huge.
I pray that I’m wrong.......................
Storm surge is basically a tsunami, but with heavy winds at the same time.
And in low-lying islands like that, my fear is many were swept out to sea and may never be found.
“”PR and the Bahamas luck ran out.””
Just think without Puerto Rico suffering the damage they had last year or the year before, AOC can’t accuse the president of being responsible for damage there. She’ll have to find a new schtick!
“Save the Planet”?! The Planet doesn’t need our help. It’s doing just fine all by itself.
The hurricane, any hurricane or typhoon, is a huge vacuum, that literally sucks the surface of the ocean UP.
When they talk about ‘storm surge’ is when that new ocean level comes ashore, and can be 20 - 30 feet HIGHER than normal sea level. A cubic yard of seawater weighs 1728 pounds.
Not many things can withstand a force of that nature for very long..........
I share your fears.
I mentioned this on another thread. A few years ago, I took two inexpensive cruises out of Baltimore. One of the ports on both was Freeport. The first of these (about five years ago), the island had just built back it cruise capacity after hurricane damage, and wonderfully so. It's a total surprise. The people are a class act, it is run well, and there are a lot of options for day guests. It breaks my heart that those fine people are suffering such hardship and loss.
“A twitter account posted an image of the Bahamas, saying the yellow lines indicate where the coast line ‘used to be’.”
I was wondering about how the coastline would fare. A cat 5 sitting on top of an island for a day was bound to erode the beaches.
Looks like half the landmass is gone.
"You wanna know how the planet’s doin’? Ask those people at Pompeii, who were frozen into position from volcanic ash. How the planet’s doin’. Wanna know if the planet’s alright, ask those people in Mexico City or Armenia, or a hundred other places buried under thousands of tons of earthquake rubble if they feel like a threat to the planet this week. How about those people in Kilauea, Hawaii who built their homes right next to an active volcano and then wonder why they have lava in the living room." - George Carlin
My then new bride and I spent our honeymoon there in 1979..................
At times it seems as if the planet is saving itself from us.
Well it only had 12 years left, anyway.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.