Hurricane Dorian Response By USCG
 

US Coast Guard Helicopters are beginning to respond to the disaster area in the Bahamas where Hurricane Dorian has caused horrific damage for so many days....Category 5 Level Winds, tremendous storm surge, and just plain utter devastation.

The Bahamas shall need immediate outside support as there is scant infrastructure there to respond and minimal assets and resources.

Keep and eye on the news as damage assessments begin to be published when it is safe finally for people to begin to determine the true extent of the damage.

It Is so typical in these natural disasters that it is helicopter crews are among the very first to arrive and begin the rescue and relief efforts.

Hand Salute to the US Coast Guard and its helicopter crews for their very early response!

https://coastguardnews.com/coast-gua...ur/2019/09/02/


Some video from the area taken during the storm. As the Eye of the storm passes over there is dead calm and sometimes sunshine before the approaching eye wall arrives with more devastating winds.

The trouble with this storm....the strongest in modern history...is it is moving very slowly and for a period of time was stationary.



American's spared damage by Dorian are coming together to help their neighbors in the Bahamas.


https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/we...ydy-story.html

Yes, I don't envy them having to deal with those conditions and the inevitable casualties/fatalities. Good luck to them.

Watch the video taken from a USCG Helicopter....the destruction below is heart stopping.

Remember these are Islands....and thus very isolated from quick response assistance that would normally be available by road.

The US Military is no doubt mobilizing a relief operation along with other agencies and Nations.

We will see the Coast Guard, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force sending support elements in the next few days I am sure.

We will. do that even though we are going to have our own problems from this Storm....although no where as bad as the People of the Bahamas are confronted with as they are able to get out and assess their losses.


https://www.foxnews.com/world/hurric...ction-revealed

The Relief Effort began before the storm hit....with pre-positioned Relief Supplies and other assets.

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/pol...234660687.html

USCG in Bahamas
 

US and the Bahamas have a standing agreement on SAR. Same with US and Canada. US and Bahamas also have a standing collaboration on law enforcement where USCG keeps helicopters pre-positioned in the Bahamas. Those helicopters were bolstered in advance of the hurricane. US DoD assets will eventually assist, but it takes more diplomatic agreements before that happens.

God bless the US Coast Guard!

Malabo.....also consider the USCG is not a Military Service until time of War but is a Law Enforcement/SAR/Marine Infrastructure agency until that happens.

Multi-National Agreements are not un-common....even Canada and the United States cooperate with one another on the odd occasion.

Another video here showing USCG rescue

https://www.wtsp.com/video/weather/a...d-b4ca209e41f7

Malabo,

Do you speak from personal experience when you say that disasters bring out the worst in people? I have been lucky enough to avoid serious disasters, but I have read anecdotal accounts, including Sebastian Junger's great read Tribe, which documents the opposite: people under sniper fire in Sarajevo, survivors of Hurricane Katrina, and even back to the Blitz in London all quoted as saying that they actually miss the sense of community, camaraderie, and care that those fraught times inspired in ordinary humans. It is the mundane days of ordinary, easy existence that create the distance and strife between us, selon moi. I can say from personal experience that the hardest days with my friends, colleagues, or family have been the best, and I've never been more alive nor more willing to help those around me that when mortars are dropping or a vehicle is about to go up in flames. I don't have the hubris to assume that I am alone in this experience.

--Matt

Dorian will pass by my place about 0300....just about when High Tide occurs....fortunately the combination of its track offshore from me, a return to normal tides instead of "King Tides", wind direction, and my geographical location on the leeward shore next to two large inlets that facilitate lessened storm surges.....will make this far less a destructive storm than last years Hurricane Florence.

All this week folks have worked together helping one another get ready for the storm, have checked up with one another all day and on into the night making sure others are doing ok.

I know tomorrow we will assess our own damages and begin the contracts with others to see if they need help.

After we take care of our own immediate needs and those of our friends and neighbors....we will start looking out for those who need help even if they are total strangers.

That is the way it works where I live.

Last year we all turned out to help those who lost everything they had or had major damage to their homes and businesses.

We were two weeks without electricity or cell phones and internet before things returned to "normal".

I had a whole house standby generator.and had normal services to include hot water, cook stove, and air-conditioning...and my neighbors did not go without a hot meal or hot shower or the opportunity to get some relief from the heat and humidity.

We turned out and used Farm and Construction equipment to clear private drives, county and state roadways....cut up fallen trees, got trees off houses, drove folks into town for medical care....drove people to their jobs so they earn a living.

Disasters bring people together....particularly if you have an ingrained sense of community that comes with living in rural areas or small towns.

Bravo Sasless and - Good Luck ..

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Bravo SASless!

Hope it turns out OK for you and community SASless. I did my mandatory evacuation from a Florida barrier island last weekend and went to North Carolina - D'oh!