9-8-2019 Grand Bahama Island, Raw Helicopter video of Hurricane Dorian Destruction

[@lf3026]

God bless those who survived this horrible hurricane. God I ask that you give these people hope, strength and comfort in their time of need, in your name Jesus Christ...Amen💖💖💖

[@rootsmanuva82]

Basically a 40 mile wide EF4 tornado. Unreal and heartbreaking.

[@liannannette359]

It was insane. 38 hrs we endured. Three tsunami waves.

[@DebCnbfre]

Besides the homes and people... My guess even the wildlife that was there were swept away as well.. Total destruction of everything... :(

[@PismoDetailing]

Oh my gosh!!! I didnt even know this!!! It looks horrible but what did it look like before?

[@jodyhicks6508]

This is beyond disaster...There is crude along the coast for a very long way, the oil company needs to get busy NOW!

[@kathylewis2484]

Agreed....if it rains... Company out of Norway owns it. Finally came up on Google search.

[@jodyhicks6508]

@@kathylewis2484 Is there a name and email address we can get out there?

[@kathylewis2484]

@@jodyhicks6508 I'll pull up some links and put them here. I found 3-4 articles that named the company.

[@pornstarlivesmatter3319]

yea funny thing is i saw a few videos of people from other countries who showed up to get someone there to address it! the bahamian govt. is slow in response but quick in knowing others will step up to fix the issue BECAUSE this place is enjoyed by people from all over the world.

[@pornstarlivesmatter3319]

@Sue W yes the impact from that oil is something you can not imagine and i am not a liberal!!! those blue turquoise waters that people from all over the world including the cruiselines that keeps this country afloat(or it would be like haiti a shithole)and its main income would be over!

[@CreggLund]

That sat dish at 1:10 seems to be just fine. From now on all houses must be built as sturdy as that.

[@AdiGriTV]

That has been abandoned for many, many years (was part of US military monitoring station)

[@CreggLund]

@@AdiGriTV Then whomever was squatting in it is the luckiest guy on the island.

[@pornstarlivesmatter3319]

@@CreggLund and the light houses!!!

[@coletteg.4548]

I may be wrong but I think it’s just a matter of time before the States sees a hurricane like this . The weather has changed so much. All the Storms are so unpredictable and more violent❗️

[@suzh7301]

There was Michael in the panhandle last year and Harvey in Houston the year before that did a lot of flooding and damage just like this.

[@josephweathersy1001]

I TOTTALLY AGREE. ITS LIKE THE FORCE OF NATURE SUPERNATURAL ENTITY HAS REALLY AWAKEN TO THE FULLEST AND IS NOW SHOWING VENGEANCE ON HUMANITY GLOBAL CIVILIZATION....

[@rkan2]

Yeah, I think that within the next decade, there will be a storm that will seem innocuous, but will develop very quickly in to something much more stronger than Katrina and travel much farther inland as a hurrican than anything seen before, that people will think they've been in a very bad nightmare...

[@P_RO_]

@Colette' G It has already happened. Look up the "1935 Labor Day" hurricane which hit the Florida Keys.

[@pornstarlivesmatter3319]

i think there was a hurricane like this in 1935 there. another one of course will hit but not like this.

[@teresaareces4995]

God help them get over this horrific disaster 🙏🏻 And for all those negative people may God have pity on them

[@PrincessLadyChang]

Still praying for the Bahamas

[@arizonatsunami]

How did that cell tower stay up??? Or is that new?

[@BruceInFlorida]

Open metal Structure presents less wind resistance.

[@Xbangsplot]

I live in the tropics and my house is built out of cement blocks and steel bar and the roof is a cement slab. Literally hurricane proof. Virtually nobody in hurricane prone areas are building their house that way. I don't get it. At the very least, I would have a small cement bunker erected in my yard to double as storage room and an emergency bunker.

[@tomihoui]

It's not so much the wind that killed so many people it's the surge between 8 and 30 feet. Be careful about a bunker in the yard as it could easily flood from the surge.

[@cathyt144]

Dan Roux in a perfect world every resident could afford those luxuries but the majority of the residents ive seen interviewed are very poor. A lot of people from Haiti are on the island and they barely survive . Im sure if they could afford to build hurricane proof homes and emergency bunkers they prob would. I dont understand why the govt hasnt already built emergency shelters for disasters like this.

[@conjurerwoman9726]

Dan Roux You haven't been paying attention. Most of the homes were built of concrete with Steel and they fell. Also, the storm surge destroyed a lot of homes. When mother nature is ready to throwdown nothing will stop her! Stop fooling yourself that your house will stand up to a cat 5. Also, the concrete roof will be a dangerous situation when it fall and trap or kill anyone underneath it.

[@P_RO_]

Even reinforced block construction (which you seem to have) loses much strength when debris impacts knock out a substantial part of a wall. And even if the house stands, you've got the storm surge to drown you when it goes higher than your house. If your house is standard block construction you're going to be in for a big surprise if something like this hits you. My 45 years in all forms of construction tell me that nothing short of a bank vault is guaranteed to be standing after a storm like this, and only bank vaults and bunkers are built that way. No house- not even yours- is fully hurricane proof.

[@Xbangsplot]

@@tomihoui Death is not the only concern. Losing the house is too. The other factor I did not mention is that building close to shore or sea level is a bad idea in terms of risk.

[@BERRIRICH]

So very sad, thank you for sharing

[@gayle2341]

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[@vickiegreer4199]

OMG God please help each and every one there. This is so sad. Come on lets get help over to what few people that's left and send them lots of help. God Bless them all.

[@uberbuyer8599]

Amazon's Bezos could rebuild and restore everything with one or two of his 200 billion!

[@thebluetarp]

7:15 how come all this looks fine?! What area of the island is this?

[@juliusseymour2854]

It is the southern side more damage occurred on the northern and eastern area

[@stanquisharickerson339]

Everything Is Gone😩😩😩😩 So Devastating

[@ronframe387]

Dave Woodruff:: What are you talking about?! I see plenty of houses that look untouched! I'd say this part of the island looks good for a strong hurricane.

[@ivanviera4773]

Wind damage looks less in Freeport since the hurricane closest approach was about 25 miles.

[@marcuscorvain1204]

Mother nature at her finest

[@marcuscorvain1204]

@@rocky1942racoon 😂

[@rocky1942racoon]

@@marcuscorvain1204 As funny as that sounds I wasn't joking:)

[@johnrflinn]

Have all the green leaves been blown off the trees. Everything is brown.

[@EviLSouL9g9]

there are no trees left there everything gone..people move and rebuild in the center areas of those islands get away from those coastal areas because you are all sitting in the middle of a hurricane highway and there gonna be more coming year after year

[@emdubsky]

The hurricane blows a bunch of salt water into the air which is bad for a lot of plants. Between that and the storm surge, a lot of plants die or at least turn brown for a while

[@patriciaball3644]

It's not easy to pluck a leaf of of these tough plants yet look what was done by the wind. WOW PRAYING FOR YOU PEOPLE THERE IS HOPE

[@tamaradox]

My heart cries

[@ben2366]

Near the end of the video it shows many of the mansions and they seem like they did well during the storm and some look undamaged

[@rkan2]

And they are saying that Bahamas have better building standards... I think not. Typical plywood and maybe some cinder block..

[@P_RO_]

@@rkan2 They DO have stronger building codes, much like Miami/Dade here in the US. And most of those homes were reinforced concrete block which is different than reinforced concrete but quite strong in itself. Not the normal 'cinder block stuff you see in the US. Some homes may have been wood framed but those can be built to withstand 150MPH winds now. Where the problem came in is that the winds here were 165MPH with higher gusts, and wind strength increases at the square of the increased velocity so that 15 MPH difference more than doubled the winds pressure on structures. When you add in the water pressure from a storm surge, and consider that 165MPH equals an EF-3 to EF-4 tornado, and also think about how long that storm lasted then it's a miracle anything was left standing even if no large debris or boats were flung into those houses. And yes- some of the nicest homes were built more strongly but that is an expensive option which most people simply cannot afford to do. Nobody knows hurricanes better than the Bahamas and nobody is better prepared for them, but with a storm like this all bets are off. We had our Katrina which exceeded our plans, Dorian simply exceeded theirs. Has this happened in the US anywhere outside of Miami the destruction would have been absolute with nothing left standing at all. So please get your facts right before commenting and trying to demean these people who build better than we do.

[@justinharris5195]

P RO I’m not buying it. The beach off of those mansions looks perfectly fine, and so do the trees. It’s like the wind and storm surge never even touched it.

[@pornstarlivesmatter3319]

@@justinharris5195 yes some areas were not bad but no need for media to show that

[@craigparker3434]

Wonder how much this will cost America ? One things for sure these cell towers will survive anything.

[@susanhernandez8088]

Why does it say faintly up top of Video, "Not for Broadcast" ??? 🤔🤔🤔

[@rosievortex2808]

Because this is most likely the footage of a storm chaser and it's their way to not have their media stolen by someone else.

[@rosievortex2808]

Or they did not give permission for their media to be in news channels ect

[@P_RO_]

"Watermark"- look it up. Makes identifying anyone who uses this video without license easy to find and prosecute. Just because you see something online doesn't give you permission to copy an post it elsewhere!

[@fake734]

Anyone know how long it takes SALT from the ocean water to dissipate to where things will grow ?

[@quadq6598]

Depends on rainfall, fast if lots of rain, slow if not.

[@pornstarlivesmatter3319]

um most are probably ruined! besides them being under sea and the salt for so long there wasn't much rain that came afterwards.

[@nopretribrapture2318]

Certainly a difference between the rich and poor areas..seems the poor areas were worst hit !😐

[@pornstarlivesmatter3319]

well yes in a sense

[@TehKitteh01]

Money certainly builds much stronger structures.

[@MsRhondaRandy]

Thats exactly the PROBLEM ALL OVER AMERICA!....doesn't this spell racism to you? Only the blind can't see this and GOD is tired of it so the rich gets trashed as well as the poor to let them see how it feels to have nothing and break this PRIDE!

[@marilyncruz1030]

Wow there are probably bodies no one knows about 😥😪

[@stanquisharickerson339]

Looks more like a bomb went off everything looks so dry and brittle SMH just sad

[@Birdiechik]

They didnt show the worst of it at all

[@ritatolley9585]

Horrific

[@conniecharley7086]

Why don't they show the mansions and fancy expensive home after the storm.

[@justinharris5195]

Connie Charley did you watch the video?

[@pornstarlivesmatter3319]

um they need to get money from the world lol. there are a few videos i found from private citizens who live in the rich areas and their damage using their drones but of course those people has insurance ect. and most homes were built way better

[@eshjane]

How many lots their lives????? ☹️

[@shifttube1283]

wow i cant believe they never built any these houses on stilts like most all the houses in east coast Carolina's guess you live and you learn

[@haviva48]

No most of these homes were made of cinder blocks. We don't do wooden structures, only in the shantytown of abaco. And as for stilts, we never had a problem of flooding in this area.

[@judywaddell6065]

Darwin in northern Australia was totally flattened by Cyclone Tracy on Christmas Eve of 1976 (I think), The houses there were built on stilts. It reminded me of Hiroshima -nothing was left standing. Afterwards, new building codes were introduced, but a lot of people were so traumatised and had to live in caravans for such a long time, that many people left and never returned, and many marriages broke down.

[@berlindamoustafa1887]

Disaster of every kind

[@uberbuyer8599]

Go ahead.. rebuild right along the ocean ..again...and see what happens. If you do, then no more insurance....NONE!

[@bobflendorg1064]

Doesn't look as bad as you'd expect after a category 5 hurricane. The Bahamas are British Commonwealth nation. Where is the UK in the recovery efforts?

[@peterdonaldson4784]

The Brits sent two hospital ships and significant relief aid. On GBI many Brit expats remained on the island and still spend their days unpacking containers of relief supplies and cooking emergency meals.

[@Alwayshungry305]

Coastline wrecked too...

[@tomihoui]

I just don't understand how some gated communities like Shoreline 7:49 look so fine compared to the images of the rest of the island shown in the media.

[@taylorscock]

Tom Hougaz I did not mean to downvote what you said, hit that by accident. So sorry. But notice the resort next to that community also looked in decent condition. I imagine they were structurally built better.

[@ben2366]

The total devastation areas were literally shanty towns full of Haitians, many of them undocumented

[@P_RO_]

@@ben2366 No, the destruction went much further than that. But yes, all the shanty towns blew away just like everyone knew they would. Having more money means you can build stronger than required, which is why rich areas were less affected.

[@rosegarza676]

God is trying to tell you something. Jesus is returning soon with his army. Repent accept Jesus as your Lord and saviour. Jesus is the only one who can save you. Sin is the reason God is destroying earth.

[@hushjohnny9543]

I know it may be stupid,,.... but,, with all these fancy missile's and terrible bombs being made why can't somebody try to 'Blow The HELL' out of one of these storms when they are way out at sea?

[@rkan2]

Because you need probably a 100MT nuke... You can go read what Tsar Bomba did...

[@hushjohnny9543]

@@rkan2 ... first of all I really don't think you'd need a bomb that large, let alone nuclear. C'mon. Drop it at the right level? It seems it would have enough impact to break it apart. However... thanks for your reply!

[@P_RO_]

Dream on sucker. There is so much strength and power in a hurricane structure even at it's beginning that nothing we're capable of doing can much alter it, and certainly not on a long-term scale. To "blow it up" successfully would mean destroying that part of the world with the explosion. That's what science has to say on the matter.

[@mr.salvatorejpluchino8467]

I WONDER WHAT ATLANTIS LOOKS LIKE, I HAVEN’T SEEN ANY VIDEOS OF IT

[@omarjames4013]

Doubt any significant damage was done. The Atlantis is located on Paradise Island and they got less impact from Dorian in comparison to Abacos and Grand Bahama.

[@mr.salvatorejpluchino8467]

OH OK 👌 THANKS 🙏 BROTHER

[@mr.salvatorejpluchino8467]

The watchmans eyes AGREE NO PROBLEM HERE

[@mr.salvatorejpluchino8467]

I WOULD LIKE FOR GIVE ME LIKES JUST SAYING

[@burghstrong6878]

There's a commercial airing on TV saying Paradise Island & Atlantis are fine & advertising for tourist to go there.

[@J.K.649]

The nature is tied and need freedom.

[@spryfolII]

Oh my! This is devastating. Exactly what "they" wanted. Wiped clean. Now "they" will tell us that it will need BILLIONS to bring back to life. It won't be. Weather warfare is no joke. That hurricane sat and rotated for almost a complete 24 hr period. I could not imagine what people were going through. May those who didn't escape souls rest easy.

[@eshjane]

OMG!!!!!!!

[@isiomaamma9869]

One could clearly see the resorts are damage , but its really flat

[@YahshuaLovesMe]

the place is totally polluted. Land will heal, everybody has PTSD. Should be required upon citizen ship application, to first read Jack London's book on when he was caught in one of these Category Fives in the tropics, nature of the beast... you know what it's like after reading that.

[@Angie12392]

So grand Bahama resorts are gone???

[@Football-zi2dc]

No the resorts are still there. They just didn’t fly over those areas; just. The more remote eastern end if the island and residential areas

[@shifttube1283]

the news make it sound like the whole island is wiped out but most the houses from half way on were fine even tho they built them on the ground 20ft from the sea they all should be on stilts man these people are so miss informed

[@nameless0073]

You have no idea how this looked before....all of what you see was filled with green grass and plenty of homes band business aaalllll of which are COMPLETELY gone...the houses you see make up less than 5% of the property remaining... everything is goooone

[@quadq6598]

Heartbreaking but its gone, no point in rebuilding. This will happen again, no tourists will come for years if ever. The final death toll will never be published but its clearly going to be in the tens of thousands

[@ednamartins273]

Tenho raiva das pessoas que moram perto do mar

[@bonniebrook1]

Good Luck and ma God Bless

[@TBrownRecords]

Oh wow

[@rey82rey82]

Return it all to nature

[@mwizzie9346]

Get the people out of there before more storms come

[@pornstarlivesmatter3319]

this is hurricane season there and it comes every year. most do not want to leave for good because you can live there for very cheap

[@YahshuaLovesMe]

maybe get a drone next time, choppers are too noisy here.

[@bclemms601]

Got both, figured someone would complain about the chopper being too loud and someone would complain about drone being too quiet. You would be amazed what people complain about.

[@patriciaball3644]

ALL THE LOVE AND HEARTFELT PRAYERS TO YOU ALL. ANGELS ALL AROUND YOU LOVE YOU! PLEASE THINK POSITIVE I WISH THE UNITED STATES WOULD LET YOU ALL IN. YOU CAN BET THAT'S WHAT THE MAJORITY OF US AMERICANS WANT.

[@fake734]

A year to get the power on !

[@pornstarlivesmatter3319]

it wont be a year

[@fake734]

@@pornstarlivesmatter3319 Just wait and see what the Government is going to do !

[@nopretribrapture2318]

The island is uninhabitable, don't rebuilt itl get worse,leave it now to nature,earth is having a revamp,'re set,or heavily declining. Bible stated all of this at luke 21:11-31

[@carolescharwatt2373]

I dont see much destruction!