As Hurricane Dorian left thousands missing in the Bahamas, South Carolina reside...
- As Hurricane Dorian left thousands missing in the Bahamas, South Carolina resident Daniel Huggins worried frantically about his mother on Green Turtle Cay and, with no word from U.S. or Bahamas authorities, turned to Facebook for news.
Huggins posted in Facebook groups about his mother, Mary Anne Huggins, on Green Turtle Cay, a small barrier island with about 450 residents. Two days later, his mother reached him with a cryptic message from a Global Positioning System to his cell phone. She later called him on a satellite phone but lost the signal after 15 seconds.
But the scope of the disaster soon overwhelmed the page, and Pritchard-Ansell worked with others to create a website where people have shared more than 6,000 names of missing people. It is still far from complete.The death toll from Dorian stood at 30 on Friday, officials said. As thousands remain missing, the final toll is feared to be much higher.lives lost,” said Simeka Williams, 22, who left Freeport days before the storm to start medical school in Jamaica.
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