Hurricane Dorian

I kind of tripped and fell into it.

We had this hurricane off our coast that was about to impact the Bahamas, Hurricane Dorian.

It was interesting.

Everybody was asking, what are we doing? What are we doing as the University of Miami goes? I was told that there's this doctor, Dr.

You can see in one area there could be extreme floods, in another area there could be extreme drought, and extreme temperature swings, all kinds of stuff related to the El Nino that we're seeing, the very strong El Nino that we're dealing with now.

So that's an example of engagements, right? And there's also some response there.

So, you know, I mentioned earlier how we responded into the Bahamas following Hurricane Dorian, you know, all those years ago.

And, you know, Hurricane Dorian was an extraordinarily powerful Category 5 that stalled out over the Bahamas.

With just a brief search, I found what I think are five other countries already in the climate debt doom loop.

The short list includes other Caribbean island nations, Dominica after Maria, and the Bahamas still in financial shock after Hurricane Dorian in 2019.

And the others were Mozambique after twin cyclones.

They were terrible in 2019.

Across the Atlantic Basin, hurricane activity remained unusually quiet for much of the season, with meteorologists noting that October came without any hurricanes forming, a rare occurrence in the modern satellite era.

The quiet season comes just weeks after the country paused to honor those lost during Hurricane Dorian, with memorial events and tributes serving as a reminder of both the devastation of the storm and the resilience that followed.

While forecasters continue to stress that preparedness remains essential every year, many residents are ending this hurricane season with a renewed sense of gratitude.

And as November gives way to the holiday season, there is hope that the months ahead will continue to bring calmer skies and fewer reasons to watch the tropics.

He sits in the eyewall.

Dorian sat over this island of the Bahamas for what felt like

hours.

Hurricane Dorian is what we're looking for there.

If you want to see that video, it's freaking terrifying.

Mike, we're heading back over to you.

Yeah, but they have been documented survivors include cows

swimming and floating up to five miles in the Atlantic Ocean during Hurricane Dorian.

I suppose swim or die, right? Listen to this.

The

And I really documented the practices of essentially how do you flip a country? and make it stronger on the other side of disaster.

And so because I had created all that, I went to go to the next disaster, which was Hurricane Dorian, when it hit the Bahamas.

And I'd gone on a couple dates with this guy just to trust men again and really enjoy him.

But he had no potential in my mind.

What is your misadventure?

My family and I were living in the Bahamas when Hurricane Dorian, a category 5 storm with 200 plus mile per hour winds, hit our home and trapped us inside.

We did have a little chat before, right, just to kind of get to know each other a bit.

And you did say you grew up in the Bahamas, is that right?

But not.

Yeah.

24 hours before Hurricane Dorian made it to Grand Bahama, where we were living, it hit Abaco.

And it's the only storm that I know about in my lifetime where everyone continued to have connection.

And I don't know if you recall it, uh, people in the weather community do.

And h- what happened is Trump was tweeting about a certain hurricane in 2019 Hurricane Dorian, uh, which was in the Caribbean at the time, and it was one of the most damaging storms in the Bahamas' history.

And so here it was barreling towards the US, and he tweeted about a number of states being in the impact zone, including Alabama.

Well, it turned out, as Trump would often do, is he wasn't looking at the most accurate information, which my agency, NOAA, the National Weather Service, uh, is under us, that they had put out a, a forecast for the storm to recurve towards the Carolinas, and Alabama wasn't even in the, the, the picture.

Basically, like, I, I said all proceeds...

I was living in the Bahamas for a little bit and then Hurricane Dorian hit, and I was like, "If all, all proceeds of our Bahamian lobster pillow, you know, go to hurricane relief." And that night my phone started to go off at the counter.

I was home in Delaware.

My mom...