That presents so many more issues.......no power/control tower (even though USA covers their ATC anyway), is the runway damaged (likely).

There are some facebook groups trying to organize supply runs (via private boats) but that has its own issues. Can you imagine how much debris is in the water? The docks are probably unusable, definitely no fuel (or any you would want to take a chance with) and if your boat gets disabled then what? The US is actually closer to Grand Bahama island than Nassau is.

74 died in Texas during Hurricane Ike, many of them stayed on Bolivar peninsular despite many warnings that the storm surge would top the land turning it first into an island, then completely sweeping over that. Only one house survived intact and many of the bodies were washed, miles inland ending up not far from here.
Storm surge is something that should always be feared and avoided.

News showed the Bahamian prime minister asking private boats NOT to make the trip over no matter how well intended. Debris/lack of customs/organization would make it a total clusterfvck. The guy said "if a 70 ft yacht showed up full of supplies we couldn't handle it".............typical Bahamas politics.

They just showed a satellite before and during the storm what Grand Bahamas was like, nuts

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/03/weath...rnd/index.html