Bahamas

Phasma

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Sep 17, 2016
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I am curious if anyone knows the condition of the Bahamas. I know Dorian hit Grand Bahama and Abacos but are some of the more southern or western Bahamian islands intact?
 
They say no news is good news, since I haven't heard anything besides Grand Bahama and Abacos, I'm thinking the others have been spared. I was in Freeport / Lucaya a couple months back and can attest to the fact that they had not yet fully recovered from Hurricane Matthew in 2016. Lucaya seems to had fared somewhat better due to the fact that they are on the south side of Grand Bahama. I'm sure the little towns on the "west end" were pretty much destroyed as well.
 
We’re taking a Royal Caribbean Cruise in March that is supposed to stop there. Going to give it a few weeks and call the cruise guy to see if Royal Caribbean has an alternative plan.
 
Not sure if this has been posted here yet, but if anybody is interested I received this last week. There have been many postings on line about sending $ to the Bahamas, this is from the club in Marsh Harbor so I think it would be a good bet to get some money to where it is most needed.

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Fellow members,





In the aftermath of hurricane Dorian, our dear friends in the Abacos need our help. Your first impression might be to go there in person but I would strongly recommend against that. There will be time for direct help but that time is a ways in the future. Below is a message from the Association of Bahamas Marinas which addresses this directly.



Notice from the Association of Bahamas Marinas

We have been receiving reports of people from the US trying to boat to the Abacos to help with relief efforts. Private vessels should not try and reach the islands at this time. The current US and Bahamian government efforts are to get people OUT of the impacted areas of the Abacos and Grand Bahama. There is tons of debris floating and under the water, there is nowhere to tie up, there is are no warehousing facilities for goods delivered, roads on the islands are NOT passable and communications with the islands are still at a bare minimum.
We understand there is a strong desire to take action and help these communities and the offers of assistance and support have been overwhelming. Our goal is to consolidate as many efforts under the smallest number of umbrella organizations as possible in order to increase buying power and decrease the number of vessels heading to the islands with supplies. Right now we are recommending funneling as much of the relief effort through the Bahamas Red Cross Society as possible.
The Bahamas government has set up a website page as a resource center to help aide those in need. We will continue to update this page with the most relevant information needed so we can continue to provide the necessary assistance to persons and business who are willing to lend a helping hand. Please check this page frequently while we review and approve a list of additional trusted partners. https://www.bahamas.com/hurricane-relief


I would ask that our members heed this advise. Donating money will be the best way to help the people of the Abacos and those organizations that will have boots on the ground in the impacted areas. There are many organizations looking for donations with Go Fund Me pages etc. Some of these will turn out to be outright bogus or otherwise not using all of the donations for the stated purpose. I urge you to donate your hard earned money with reputable organizations. Below is a list of organizations that I would feel comfortable donating my own money. This is by no means a complete list. There are many, many other worthy organizations as well.

If every member of the RMHYC makes a donation, it will make a difference. As soon as I find out about an organized rebuilding effort requiring extra hands or extra boats I will make that information available. Until then, we should stay out of the way of the first responders.


Bahamas Red Cross
Link through https://www.bahamas.com/hurricane-relief

National Association of the Bahamas
Link through https://www.bahamas.com/hurricane-relief

Hope Town fire and Rescue
http://htvfr.org/index.html

Patrick Davis and the Songwriters in Paridise crew have started a Go Fund Me page. The contributions will be distributed to all the affected areas, not just Hope Town.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/Hope4HopeTown?rcid=r01-156738420115-e6f9a441ae7e4620&pc=ot_co_campmgmt_w

Kirk of the Pines Presbyterian Church in Marsh Harbor has set up a relief fund that will be used for for Abaco and Grand Bahama Island dispersed through their two EPC churches.
https://epc.org/donate/emergencyrelief/


Best Regards,


Scott Coles
Commodore
Royal Marsh Harbour Yacht Club
 
From what I understand, the Exumas, Berries, Nassau and Eleuthera are fine. I received an email from Ramora Bay Resort and Marina on Harbor Island informing me they only experienced some minor flooding and are open for business. We were just there in July.
 
I thought that they were evacuating/resettling a major part of the population to the other islands since rebuilding will take a very long time (10-15 years). Just the clean up alone will take a few years and it isn't clear what they are going to do with the debris.

Puerto Rico cost the US $21B a year. Hurricane Maria required that we give them another $40B to repair the island. PR government wants $139B for 1.5 Million citizens which works out to $92k per citizen NOT including the annual subsidy of $14k per year per citizen. PR is a welfare state.

My point is that rebuilding Abaco and Marsh Harbor will take a long time and a serious amount of money for the 17,000 souls that inhabited the island. Additionally the reason that the US is not stepping up to relocate them to the US is because they have a number of undocumented people from Haiti and other undesirable locations that live on the island. So....no papers .....no US. Plus, given the current political climate.....putting more people on US Welfare is not popular if they can be relocated to other Bahama islands.

I'm sensitive to the disaster.....it is that I have seen this movie before. I am curious what their plan is and who is in charge before I start sending money their way.
 
I am curious if anyone knows the condition of the Bahamas. I know Dorian hit Grand Bahama and Abacos but are some of the more southern or western Bahamian islands intact?


Any word on Bimini? We vacationed there last year and met some wonderful people and have not heard back from them after reaching out to see how they fared...
 
Any word on Bimini? We vacationed there last year and met some wonderful people and have not heard back from them after reaching out to see how they fared...

Bimini should be fine....the airport is open and the island was far south of Dorian.

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