The Bahamas is in a dangerously uncertain position. Hurricane Dorian caused immense damage to the physical landscape of The Abacos and Grand Bahama and the mental landscape of the entire nation during its 3-day rampage. Surrounding the topics of creating strategies to recover from these losses, a fashionable buzzword pops up frequently: resilience. The survivors …
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On August 24, 2019, a tropical wave in the Central Atlantic developed into a Tropical Storm named Dorian. This disturbance would serve as the fourth named storm, second hurricane, and first major hurricane of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season. What follows is an account of the atmospheric elements which provided Major Hurricane Dorian with enough …
Hurricane Dorian blindsided me. As the monster storm traveled in the Atlantic, I was in the Solomon Islands, a small archipelagic country in the Pacific. I was, quite literally, on the other side of the world – and utterly oblivious to the seriousness of what The Abacos and Grand Bahama were about to encounter. Historically, …
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I read Ashleigh Sean Rolle’s fantastic blog titled, “How Does God Decide?” and I had to give an unsolicited response because it so articulately summed up what a lot of Bahamians, particularly Grand Bahamians and Abaconians, felt in response to Hurricane Dorian. Specifically, the article asked if God is real, then how could he allow …
What does it mean to move on? What does it mean to find the way forward? When I was about 19 years old and grieving the sudden death of my uncle, who was only 37 years old when he died tragically in a car accident, I read somewhere that “the beautiful thing about death is …
This story is without question the most important story I have ever told. It is the story of Hurricane Dorian in The Bahamas. But even more so, it is the story of the Bahamian people—my people. I am a storyteller. I probably got it honest—in part, from my great-grandfather, the legendary Biminite and musician Nathaniel …