Hurricane Dorian lashes Bahamas with ferocious winds and flash flooding

@NoneTheLess Godbless you for that

I gotta say Haiyan (Yolanda) is still far worse and stronger than Dorian or even Maria in 2017.

kuchytapr That’s completely false.

kuchytapr Oh, I thought you were referring to The Bahamas.

If you live in an area that is a historical site for hurricanes then it is up to you to be smart enough to build where you can be safe from the largest storm ever. It is up to you to build using methods that can withstand the biggest storm ever. This is a fundamental truth that goes all the way back to fairy tales and nursery rhymes. You are responsible for you. Yes we should help our neighbor as best we can. That is the ultimate rule for living, but that presupposes that your neighbor has prepared himself/herself/themselves and are not DEPENDING on your generosity or the generosity of others. If you build your home in modern stick and stone styling in the middle of a historical tornado alley, do not expect sympathy or help form others who were smart enough to build somewhere safer with simpler but tougher styling and structure.

TheLawDemon your are so unfortunately naive when it comes to this. To begin with, a lot of these people in the Bahamas live in poverty and do not have the means to pick up and leave, let alone the proper documentation. You cannot sit in a situation you are not in, pointing a finger and telling people how they should relocate when they are born ono this island with no choice. If you are referring to the panhandle of Florida, than you also lack information. I lived in a part of town with multi million dollar homes on the bay that were literally built for hurricanes that were still destroyed by falling trees and tornado force winds. You clearly don’t have a tangible understanding of hurricanes, and most people don’t (at least the ones who don’t live in Florida) it has nothing to do with anything you’ve described. It has to do with the media paying enough attention for the ratings and then when it’s over and everyone has had their fill of devastation videos, moving onto the next thing. No one brings attention to the price gouging happening or the fact that FEMA has denied more people who genuinely NEED assistance than the ones who just take the assistance because it’s free, even though they have the means to make it. The rent has tripled, a one bedroom apartment with nothing included is going for $2400 a month. These problems have nothing to do with living in an area that is prone to hurricanes. This has to do with being charged $200 for a basic oil change and an oil filter because they can. This has to do with paperwork that should have been processed for our county, that made it illegal to price gouge in a state of devastation (post hurricane) but was not done. I understand you are working with the limited knowledge you have, but you have to stretch beyond that because life is not as black and white and rigid as you make it to be.