Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis called the damage from Dorian “unprecedented”
Photo: Ramon Espinosa/AP/Shutterstock Hurricane Dorian stalled over several islands in the Bahamas as a Category 5 storm on Sunday and Monday, causing profound damage to the archipelagic country with a population just under 400,000.
During the storm, images showed staggering levels of flooding and rainfall, with as much as 30 inches falling in some areas. The Grand Bahama International Airport in Freeport, the archipelago’s second-largest city, was five feet underwater. On the Abaco island chain — less developed than the tourist areas of the country and populated by fishermen and Haitian migrants — thousands of homes are expected to have been damaged or destroyed.
On Tuesday, as the storm crept up the U.S. coast and southern states began to prepare for a weakened, but still potentially deadly, Category 2 storm, the accounting of the damage in the Bahamas began. The level of flooding from the enormous storm surge appeared to encompass close to half of the island of Grand Bahama. Abaco, too, was suffering from major flooding and devastating property damage.
Lia Head-Rigby, the operator of a hurricane relief organization on the island, told the AP that on Abaco there is “total devastation. It’s decimated. Apocalyptic. It looks like a bomb went off. It’s not rebuilding something that was there. We have to start again.” According to a contact on the island that spoke with her, there are “a lot more dead” than reported.
Prime Minister Hubert Minnis called the damage from Dorian, the strongest storm to ever hit the Bahamas, “unprecedented.” The Bahamian minister of foreign affairs, Darren Henfield, said multiple unconfirmed casualties have been reported. “We have reports of bodies being seen,” Henfield said. “We cannot confirm those reports until we go out and see for ourselves.” Five deaths have been officially reported so far.
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