After 13 days covering Dorian and it’s aftermath, it’s with deeply mixed emotions that I head home for a break. Conditions are extremely challenging. No power, no water, it’s been over a week since anyone in my amazing team has had a shower or a real meal. Having covered the storm, the rescues and the aftermath, we have hit the wall. Bahamians have it far far worse and we are in awe of their resilience. My colleagues on the ground here will continue to follow where this heartbreaking story goes. We still don’t have an accurate number of the missing or dead. Aid is still taking too long to arrive. I am going home to give my kids a badly needed hug and will be back. My deepest thanks to @jaaydaay and @josecnn. Please keep Bahamians in your thoughts.
From my friend @aprespinosa who has been covering Dorian in the Bahamas since before the storm hit and as always has been doing amazing work. “Synobia Reckley holds up the dress her niece wore as a flower girl at her wedding, as she goes through valuables in the rubble of her home destroyed one week ago by Hurricane Dorian in Rocky Creek East End, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019. Synobia, 25, married two days after Hurricane Mathew in 2016, which passed over her home without doing serious damage.”
