Alex Bellow, Arbuthnot’s pastor, had started an insurance agency in the New Orleans area in early July 2005 as a second job. Day to day, I didn’t know what was going on. Lines formed outside gas stations and grocery stores. It was such a blessing because everything had closed down. We are a resilient people but this has shaken us to our core. Like all of us, I am heartbroken by the loss of homes and businesses but above all the loss of life the hurricane has brought. Read More: Before-and-after images show how Hurricane Dorian's storm surge put a Bahamas airport underwater.Ĭrews in Grand Bahama worked to reopen the airport and used heavy equipment to pick up branches and palm fronds. The world is now aware of the destruction caused in the BVI by Hurricane Irma, a record category 5 hurricane. 'He calmed the storm to a whisper and stilled the waves.' - The Bible, Psalm 107:29. Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work of knowing, holding, more fully valuing what we have lost. 'Remember to play after every storm.' - Mattie Stepanek. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions. 'The storm is an artist the rainbow is its masterpiece.' - Matshona Dhliwayo. In Grand Bahama, a Royal Caribbean cruise ship dropped off 10,000 meals, 10,000 bottles of water and more than 180 generators, as well as diapers and flashlights. 'Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.' - Shannon L. The United Nations announced the purchase of eight tons of ready-to-eat meals and said it will provide satellite communications equipment and airlift storage units, generators and prefab offices to set up logistics hubs for helping the estimated 76,000 people who will need food and other relief. 3, 2019.Ī British Royal Navy ship docked in the Abaco islands distributed supplies to hurricane survivors. Try as we might, we know that we cannot control the. Volunteers rescue several families that arrived on small boats, from the rising waters of Hurricane Dorian, near the Causarina bridge in Freeport, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, Tuesday, Sept. An Approaching Hurricane God of the heavens: nature and all that You have created are truly awesome. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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