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I was avoiding news for the later part of last week, but one of Diane's friends who lives on the east coast of Florida called and let me know I should be worried. We did turn on the weather channel for a while but, really, there was not a darn thing I could do about the hurricane but pray.

But it is a terrible event and I am saddened and concerned for people anywhere in the path.

Mike and I spent a number of vacations on Abaco in the Bahamas. We stayed in Marsh Harbor. I don't want to try to imagine what is left there. My heart just breaks at the devastation.

Comments

  1. MaebemeSeptember 6, 2019 at 9:52 PM

    I have been watching the news reports, and it is simply devastating. I've no idea how they will manage to rebuild...it will take years and the help of many other countries. The smaller islands seem to have taken the brunt of the storm.

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  2. TomSeptember 7, 2019 at 7:40 AM

    Florida got lucky. Bahamas not so much. Our hearts and prayers go out to them. Hopefully their recovery is better than the Puerto Rico experience.

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  3. Arkansas PattiSeptember 7, 2019 at 12:10 PM

    I was wondering if you might get a brushing. Hope not. I feel so badly for those in the Bahamas. Some of my family came from there. They were loyalists during the revolutionary war and England rewarded them with plots of land in the Bahamas. Mine came from the Carolinas to Green Turtle Key, then to Key West.

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  4. gigihawaiiSeptember 7, 2019 at 1:29 PM

    Mother Nature can be so cruel sometimes. Prayers for a speedy recovery

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  5. Linda ReederSeptember 7, 2019 at 2:18 PM

    I have no experience with either Florida or the Bahamas, but the devastation in the islands is horrible. I have family just inland from the coast in both North and South Carolina, but I think they just had wind and rain for a short period of time. Not like the outer banks.

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  6. BarbaraSeptember 7, 2019 at 7:38 PM

    My finger are crossed that your condo comes through just fine. It is always the very poor that come out worse. I pray for their relief.

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  7. KaySeptember 8, 2019 at 7:49 PM

    The devastation in the Bahamas is absolutely horrible. I feel so awful for everyone there. We're looking for the best place to send a donation.

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