Blown Away!!!!

[JackLuis]

As aerial footage of devastated Bahamas emerges, campaigners ask how much destruction and death before global climate action taken?

“Bahamians have paid a devastating price for a crisis fossil fuel billionaires created. This isn’t right.”

As the National Hurricane Center announced Tuesday that Hurricane Dorian’s core was “finally moving away from Grand Bahama Island,” toward the Southeastern U.S. coast, footage of the storm’s devastation flooded the internet alongside calls for governments and the news media to recognize the here-and-now destruction of the climate emergency.

In the Bahamas, as many as 13,000 homes—or nearly half of all houses on the impacted islands—may have been severely damaged or destroyed by Dorian, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Flooding on Abaco “is believed to have contaminated wells with saltwater,” so some 62,000 people will need access to clean drinking water.

About 45,700 people in Grand Bahama and 14,500 in the Abacos may need food, a spokesman for the U.N. World Food Program told The Associated Press, which reported Tuesday on the region’s emerging humanitarian crisis.

Blown Away! Abaco is seriously fucked! Thank you Koch Bros.

 

[JackLuis]

Hurricane Dorian
Bricks of cocaine wash up on Florida beaches from Hurricane Dorian waves
Another 15 bricks, also believed to be cocaine, washed ashore on nearby Cocoa Beach.

More than a dozen bricks of cocaine washed up on two Florida beaches Tuesday from waves churned up by Hurricane Dorian, police said.

At around 8 a.m., a Melbourne police officer on foot patrol at Paradise Beach Park was alerted by a beachgoer that something suspicious appeared to have washed ashore.

When the officer checked it out, he found a package "wrapped in a way that was consistent with narcotics," a Melbourne police spokeswoman said.

In the Orlando area, one kilo of cocaine is estimated to be worth $20,000 to $30,000, he said. The bag has since been turned over to the U.S. Custom and Border Protection, he said.

Dorian, now a Category 2, began lashing the east coast of central Florida Tuesday night, prompting hurricane warnings for coastal Florida areas as well as warnings in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.

Gifts from the sea?