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    Rapid Response

    Dec 21, 2019 3 minutes
    BY JILLIAN MOCK
    PHOTOGRAPHY BY MIKE FERNANDEZ/AUDUBON

    A MONTH AFTER HURRICANE dorian ravaged the bahamas, David Knowles returned to Great Abaco Island with mixed emotions. The isle’s longtime park warden was anxious to learn how the birds and landscapes he manages had weathered 185-mph winds, but also dreaded seeing his destroyed home and neighborhood for the first time since the Category 5 disaster.

    Hurricanes are frequent threats in the Bahamas, but Dorian—the second strongest on record in the Atlantic Ocean—stood out, hitting Great Abaco on September 1 and then dumping up to

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