After placing his son on a roof hoping to keep him safe, an injured Bahamian man could do nothing but helplessly watch as Hurricane Dorian swept his son away.
“So, I grabbed my son and I put him on top (of) the roof. The water was high on the roof,” he added.
“Before I could sit on the roof to hold him, the gust from the hurricane dragged him across the roof back into the surge on the next side,” he said. “I still could remember him reaching for me and calling me, ‘Daddy.’”
He then rushed to get to the area where his son had fallen, however, he didn’t see his son anywhere.
“I was like feeling to see if I could feel some kind of cloth, some kind of clothes, some kind of skin, flesh, tennis, something,” he said.
“I ain’t find nothing. I come back up. I hold my breath and I gone back down again. All this time, people carried my wife to safety and they calling me, but I ain’t want to go because I didn’t want to leave my son.”
When asked whether he thought they might rescue his son he responded, “If he (is) rescued, I praise the lord. But for the surge, what I saw when I lose him, anything could happen. You had sharks swimming in the water, anything could happen.”
Farrington continued looking for his son, eventually making it to a church, in which he found 12 people inside.
“The wall of the church was moving like when you put clothes on the line on a breezy day,” he said.
“So, after I noticed the wall was shaking so much I moved from a seated position to a standing position with the entrance of the door right there. When I feel the wall pushing me, all I (did was) hold on the wall…
“…Everybody else who was inside, they run to try to hold the wall and I watched the wall and the roof crush everybody inside the church.
“There’s a guy, I could see him. I tapped on him and I asked him if he was okay. I ain’t get no response.”
Farrington told reporters he was eventually rescued by civilians and then taken to a hospital in Nassau.
