Local Woman Tracks Down Parents In Bahamas After Hurricane

a before-and-after photograph of the Nagy-Bonner's vacation home on Grand Bahama Island in the Bahamas
Photo credit Theresa Nagy-Bonner

PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA) —  Theresa Nagy-Bonner and her family were anxiously watching the destruction happening in the Bahamas as a result of Hurricane Dorian. 

Her parents, Randy and Sylvia Nagy of Ha­zel­wood, decided to stay in their vacation home to ride out the storm instead of evacuating. 

“They were on Grand Bahama Island, fifteen miles east of the city. So they’re out on the eastern side of the island, ten miles from the end,” Nagy-Bon­ner told KDKA Radio’s Wendy Bell on Friday afternoon. 

Nagy-Bonner had spoken with her parents on Sunday night through the FaceTime app. 

“My mom, I could see the concern in her face. She wasn’t saying anything,” Nagy-Bonner said. “My dad was just rolling his eyes, just nonchalant and laid back as if a monster storm wasn’t about to pound them.”

Nagy-Bonner lost contact with her parents once the storm hit the Bahamas.

Determined to find out the condition of her parents, she made a post on Facebook asking for anyone with information to come forward.

Her answer came in the form of Daniel Bain, an old family friend she had befriended over the years during the family’s summers in the Bahamas.

Nagy-Bonner told Wendy that Bain took it upon himself to drive a construction vehicle for fifty miles through the debris on the island.

“He was the only one who got out there, besides the locals and the government,” Nagy-Bonner said. “He went down the road where there were floods, debris, all types of craziness and a lot of devastation.”

Once there, Baim was able to contact Nagy-Bonner’s parents and report back to her that they were safe.  

Nagy-Bonner has not had direct contact with her parents yet, but she’s determined to bring them home. 

“We’re hoping to get them home soon. I don’t know how we are going to get them home, how it is going to happen,” she told Wendy. “When the Coast Guard came, I just feel that they weren’t in their right minds to go. I don’t think they realized the extent of how bad everything was, and now I think it is starting to set in.”

Ashley Funyak contributed to this article.

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