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https://www.thedailybeast.com/hurricane-dorian-bahamas-fisherman-says-he-had-to-watch-helplessly-as-his-wife-drowned-in-front-of-him?ref=home
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Bahamas Fisherman Says He Had to Watch Helplessly as His Wife Drowned in Front of Him
Jamie Ross
Reporter
Updated 09.04.19 6:34AM ET /
CNN
A fisherman from the Bahamas has given a heartbreaking account of the moment he had to watch helplessly as his wife drowned in floods that claimed their home at the height of Hurricane Dorian. Howard Armstrong told CNN the water rose rapidly until it was up their necks. We were doing all right until the water kept coming up, and all the appliances were going around the house, like the washer machine, he said. His wife, Lynn, succumbed to hypothermia and slipped underwater after spending hours in the floodwaters. And then I kept with her, and she just drowned on me, he said before breaking down in tears. The death toll from Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas stands at seven but Prime Minister Hubert Minnis has warned the public to expect that number to climb as floodwaters recede.
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Bahamas Fisherman Says He Had to Watch Helplessly as His Wife Drowned in Front of Him (Original Post)
babylonsister
Sep 2019
OP
Exactly what we would expect THE totally stupid ignorant asshole to say and believe.
democratisphere
Sep 2019
#3
I weep for this man's loss of his wife after struggling to survive this horrendous hurricane.
democratisphere
Sep 2019
#4
Bettie
(16,072 posts)1. That poor man
it is all so sad.
Joe941
(2,848 posts)2. Yet trump says climate change is not a problem.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)3. Exactly what we would expect THE totally stupid ignorant asshole to say and believe.
If one supports drumpf, then they are drumpf!
virgogal
(10,178 posts)5. Hurricanes have been around for years,long before Trump and long before the
climate change fears.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)4. I weep for this man's loss of his wife after struggling to survive this horrendous hurricane.
It is so very sad.