Hurricane Dorian: satellite images show Grand Bahama mostly underwater

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/09/03/hurricane-dorian-satellite-im.html

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Are the golf courses okay?
Asking for a clown.

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What’s scary isn’t the acreage. Most of the area highlighted is tidal flat and mangrove forest. What’s scary is that the freakin’ airport is under 6’ of water. Which means that aid can’t get in by air.

This is what the airport looks like:

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Nothing a couple rolls of paper towels couldn’t mop up. /s

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Holy Guacamole…

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Let me throw you a roll

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This calls for a roll of Brawny.

PS: I have no idea why this image was made…

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Can we quit with the car ad overlays on every major image of the article? It’s really hard to read and understand the article when every picture it refers to is covered.

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uBlock Origin + judicious use of NoScript are your friend.

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Patron Taint of Hurricaines?

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Blowhard?

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Wait – what’s happening to all of those billionaires’ holdings there? Are the trillions stashed on the islands safe?

Won’t someone think of the billionaires?

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Very yikes. Let’s hope the (relatively small so far, AFAIK) death toll won’t rise further.

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I understand the concept of hurricane surge, but I don’t understand why that water doesn’t subside more quickly. Humans change sea levels, not hurricanes. It seems like that water just drain back out to sea.

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The sea surrounding the island is also under more water than usual.

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Well that surrounding water can just go back where it came from too :hugs:

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Some of the Bahamian islands are designated for tourists-- and other islands are home to subsistance fishing operations. Andros island is very rural, and the roads are incredible disrepair.

See also:

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Someone should have built some kind of wall…

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