Michael Howell, consultant executive chef at the Green Turtle Club in Abaco, where he holds a Devour! The Beach event, talked to The Hollywood Reporter while at TIFF.
Michael Howell, executive director of Devour! The Food Film Fest, on Monday talked about Hurricane Dorian's aftermath in the Bahamas.
But that's in doubt in the aftermath of Dorian. "Now, with the hurricane, it seems unlikely that the hotel will open, let alone allow us to hold our festival," Howell said. His immediate concern is the community of around 550 people who live on Green Turtle Cay, whom he has known since 1999 when Howell worked as the full time executive chef at Green Turtle Club for three years, before returning to his native Nova Scotia.
"I'm letting you know we're flying there now, we will be there with a helicopter at 3:30 in the afternoon and is there any way you can let them know," the film festival head recalled of his crisis call with Andres. Howell immediately rang the only satellite phone he had contact with on Green Turtle Cay and gave word to his employer at the Green Turtle Club that help was on its way.
But the magnitude of the Hurricane Dorian devastation is far greater, with storm surges of up to 12 to 15 feet having laid waste across the Abacos islands. Howell warns that, however much the Bahamas offers Paradise on a hot, sunny day, climate change poses an existential threat to tropical islands worldwide over time.
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