Summary

RESIDENTS IN THE BAHAMAS ARE CLEANING UP AFTER HURRICANE FLOYD

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 169577
Story Slug Bahama - Damage
Location Freeport, Bahamas
Format Pkg
Date 09/16/1999
Archive Time 57:33
TRT 3:17
Supers FREEPORT, BAHAMAS OVY OJITO, PILOT MIKE TOBIN, REPORTING
Video Description AERIALS OF HOMES AND BUILDINGS DAMAGED ON THE ISLAND OF ABACO, SOTS
Description RESIDENTS IN THE BAHAMAS ARE CLEANING UP AFTER HURRICANE FLOYD
Script LEAD: LOTS OF PICTURES COMING OUT OF THE BAHAMAS WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO FLY OVER ABACOAND GET AN AERIAL VIEW OF THIS STORM'S TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION MIKE TOBIN HAS THE STORY (TAKE PKG) SCRIPT: ON THE ISLAND OF ABACOSANDY POINT, A VILLAGE ON THE SOUTH END HOMESMANY OF THEM DISMANTLED STILL SIT IN SEVERAL FEET OF WATER MANY OF THE ROOFTOPS ARE SCATTERED AROUND WITH THE FALLEN PALM TREES AND THESE AREN'T VACATION HOMES -- THIS IS WHERE PEOPLE LIVE SOT THE GREATEST HUMAN IMPACT WE COULD SEE WAS IN THE FISHING TOWN OF SANDY POINTPOPULATED BY LOCALS WHO REALLY DIDN'T HAVE AN OPTION TO GET OFF THE ISLAND NORTH THERE WAS A LOT OF PROPERTY DAMAGE BUT IT APPEARED AS THOUGH THE PEOPLE WHO HAD THE OPTION TO GET OFF THE ISLAND TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THAT BEFORE THE STORM CAME FURTHER NORTH AROUND CHEROKEESOUNDWHAT APPEARS TO BE TWO HOMES SIT OBLITERATED IN THE WAKE OF FLOYD ON GREEN TURTLE KAY, BOATS ARE PILED UP ON EACH OTHER THE MARSH HARBOUR ARE STRIP, YOU CAN HANDLE THE FEIRCE WINDS WHICH STILL EXIST, YOU COULD LAND THERE, BUT THE STRIP IS NOW AN ISLAND AND YOU WOULD NEED A BOAT TO GET ANYWHERE ELSE AND A HOME WHICH SITS NEXT TO THE STRIP IS ALSON UNDER SEVERAL FEET OF WATER IN HOPE TOWN THE BACH ERODED SO MUCH THAT A NUMBER OF HOMES WERE UNDERMINDED AND COLLAPSED ALL THAT AMONG THE DOWN TREES AND BATTERED ROOFTOPS IN THE ISLAND WHICH HAS BEEN HIT AS A ANY IN FLOYDS PATH SOT AND ONE THING YOU CANNOT TELL FROM THE AIR IS HOW MUCH DAMAGE HAS BEEN DONE BY WATER THAT SURGED UP WITH HURRICANE FLOYD THEN RECEDED LEAVING SAND AND FILTH INSIDE EVEN THE HOMES WHICH APPEAR TO HAVE WEATHERED THE STORM OVER ABACO, MIKE TOBIN 7 NEWS NIGHTTEAM NOONFEED
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