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babylonsister

(171,035 posts)
Wed Sep 4, 2019, 07:29 AM Sep 2019

Bahamas Fisherman Says He Had to Watch Helplessly as His Wife Drowned in Front of Him



https://www.thedailybeast.com/hurricane-dorian-bahamas-fisherman-says-he-had-to-watch-helplessly-as-his-wife-drowned-in-front-of-him?ref=home

UNBEARABLE
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
That poor man Bettie Sep 2019 #1
Yet trump says climate change is not a problem. Joe941 Sep 2019 #2
Exactly what we would expect THE totally stupid ignorant asshole to say and believe. democratisphere Sep 2019 #3
Hurricanes have been around for years,long before Trump and long before the virgogal Sep 2019 #5
I weep for this man's loss of his wife after struggling to survive this horrendous hurricane. democratisphere Sep 2019 #4

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
3. Exactly what we would expect THE totally stupid ignorant asshole to say and believe.
Wed Sep 4, 2019, 08:19 AM
Sep 2019

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
Wed Sep 4, 2019, 11:17 AM
Sep 2019

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.
Wed Sep 4, 2019, 08:22 AM
Sep 2019

It is so very sad.

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