Thousands of people are desperately trying to find loved ones in the Bahamas.
The number of confirmed dead after Hurricane Dorian rose to 43 Friday, and the figure was expected to grow"significantly" as recovery efforts continued in the devastated Bahamas, the prime minister's office said.
“It started because I realized very quickly that there needed to be a central location for people to ask has anyone seen or has anyone heard from my loved one,” she said.The website, launched earlier this week, grew out of the Facebook group Pritchard-Ansell created Sunday night as the storm hit the islands.
Pritchard-Ansell said she and the team running the website were currently working with another local group, called HeadKnowles, which was going to the airport in Nassau and registering evacuees coming to combine efforts to update the list of the missing.“Today a lot of people are going to get some good news. I think a lot of people got some good news yesterday,” she said, adding that HeadKnowles had listed about 260 evacuees on Thursday that landed in Nassau.
Pritchard-Ansell said even after loved ones are found safe, the storm would leave lasting impacts on everyone effected. She said her aunt told her mother they would be safe in their two-story home in Marsh Harbour, so she does not believe the two tried to evacuate.
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