Bishop Douglas Scharf: “I’ve lived in Florida most of my life, and I have not seen two storms that have affected a good portion of this part of Florida back-to-back like this.”
Bishop Boyd said “Abaco, Grand Bahama, and the whole Bahamas will not be the same for a long time. There are years of healing, settling and resettling, rebuilding and redevelopment before us. Entire local economies have to be rebuilt.”
The Rt. Rev. Peter Eaton of the Diocese of Southeast Florida has had to issue hurricane appeals in three of the four hurricane seasons of his episcopacy.
