In September 2019, Hurricane Dorian made landfall in The Bahamas, ending lives, decimating infrastructure, and dispersing survivors. Soon after, the COVID-19 pandemic halted mainstream economic activity for well over a year. Despite the appearance of structural recovery and rebounding tourism, the island nation and the scholars who covered these events are still not OK five years later. How do we narrate events like these? In this piece, using autoethnography, a group of Bahamian and international scholars reflect on their experiences after the impact of Hurricane Dorian