Launched TUESDAY September 24, 2019 on zReportage.com. Story #712: Bahamas Armageddon: Devastated by Dorian: Hurricane Dorian was the most powerful tropical cyclone on record to strike the Bahamas, and is regarded as the worst natural disaster in the country's history. It's been about two weeks since the brutal Hurricane Dorian tore through the northern Bahamas, after pummeling the island nation for days with sustained winds reaching 185 mph. The Category 5 storm hit the eastern Abacos and stalled for some 30 hours over Grand Bahama island after smashing the islands immediately to the east. The official death toll has reached 50, but hundreds are still missing, and search and rescue teams continue to comb through large areas of wreckage. Thousands of residents evacuated in the days following the storm, but many remain on the hurricane hit islands of the Abacos and Grand Bahama. Local agencies are working with NGOs, foreign governments, and also cruise and travel corporations to provide food, water, medical aid and supplies to those still in need. The true death toll is unknown, but news sources in the Bahamas suggested that it may exceed 1,000. There are currently 1,300 people missing. Dorian is by far the costliest disaster in Bahamian history, estimated to have left behind an exceptional billion in property damage. These images from the past 10 days across the Bahamas, show a country still reeling from disaster.
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Destruction from Hurricane Dorian in an area called 'The Mud' at Marsh Harbour in Great Abaco Island, Bahamas.
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Police investigators look for bodies in Marsh Harbour on the island of Abaco.
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Judymae Feaster's 25-year-old bible dries on the bathroom sink of her home, destroyed by Hurricane Dorian, in Rocky Creek.
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ALIANA ALEXIS of Haiti stands on the concrete slab of what is left of her home after destruction from Hurricane Dorian in an area called ''The Mud'' at Marsh Harbour in Great Abaco Island, Bahamas. The death toll in the Bahamas remained at 20, but was expected to rise as damage surveys begin. Dorian is now blamed for at least 23 deaths overall, including two in Florida and one in Puerto Rico.
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The sun rises over stripped palm trees at the Abaco Beach Resort Harbor and Marina.
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Non-governmental organization medical workers from Team, Rubicon and Heart to Heart International help a lieutenant from the Royal Bahama Defance Force wheel a critically ill patient to a waiting U.S.Customs and Border Control blackhawk helicopter from a clinic in Treasure Cay on Abaco Island in the Bahamas. The area was hard hit by hurricane Dorian.
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A child from the Freeport Children's Home orphanage, who was evacuated from Freeport, Bahamas, aboard Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas cruise ship, cries as she arrives in Nassau.
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People line up on the runway at Treasure Key airport to be evacuated after heir homes were destroyed by hurricane Dorian. The people loading the plane said they had beed waiting on the runway for 3 days.
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Moored boats left stranded in the middle of Chippinghill Dr. by an 8 feet of water surge during Hurricane Dorian in the Fortune Bay neighborhood.
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RONNIE SAUNDERS, 42, a machine operator at Freeport Harbor, surveys the wreckage done by Hurricane Dorian to his Royal Manners house. Saunders lives with his fiancee and 18-year-old daughter.
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A newly built home, cut in half and flipped by Hurricane Dorian, in the town of Treasure Cay in the Bahamas on Tuesday.
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Massive damage from hurricane Dorian is seen to the community of Marsh Harbor. Hundreds of people were waiting to be taken to safety after their town was flattened by Hurricane Dorian.
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The area known as 'The Mudd,' once a shanty town in the heart of Marsh Harbour stands like a cemetery of personal belongings and the possibility of dead bodies underneath. Two weeks after the hurricane struck, there is no evidence of rescue or recovery efforts amid the eerie silence. A rainbow comes out as Humberto passes the island.
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West Palm Fire Rescue Captain SCOTT D'ANGELO, left, RYAN BRIAN DUNBAR and AUSTIN WILKINSON help clear debris from Steve and Judymae Feaster's home that was leveled by Hurricane Dorian in Rocky Creek.
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Yachts are piled up on the shore outside the Abaco Beach Resort and Boat Harbour Marina.
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BROOKE HARMON, of Fort Myers, left, hugs STEVE FEASTER while his wife JUDYMAE FEASTER embraces LEONI IRUZUN, of West Palm Beach, while daughter STEVENNAIA FEASTER sits in the front seat of pick-up in Rocky Creek, Bahamas. The Feaster's home was destroyed by Hurricane Dorian.
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A Hummer sticks out of the garage wall at a home damaged by Hurricane Dorian.
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Grateful Bahamas residents receive hot meals from the Grand Celebration. A week since Hurricane Dorian ravaged the Bahamas, the deadly hurricane continues to haunt survivors who rode out the storm here. At least 45 people are dead, hundreds are missing and almost 70,000 are currently homeless. There is no power or running water. Aid is arriving, but slowly on the island of Grand Bahama, where Dorian hovered for two days causing tremendous damage and loss of life.
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Relief workers work at the Humane Society of Grand Bahamas. A week since Hurricane Dorian ravaged the Bahamas, the deadly hurricane continues to haunt survivors who rode out the storm here. At least 45 people are dead, hundreds are missing and almost 70,000 are currently homeless. There is no power or running water. Aid is arriving, but slowly on the island of Grand Bahama, where Dorian hovered for two days causing tremendous damage and loss of life.
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An aid worker gathers supplies found throughout the destroyed supermarket. 'I can’t believe after so many days here, I found Diet Coke.” Debris was removed from in front of Abaco Groceries allowing aid workers access to the store.
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The area known as 'The Mudd,' once a shanty town in the heart of Marsh Harbor stands like a cemetery of personal belongings and the possibility of dead bodies underneath. Two weeks after the hurricane struck, there is no evidence of rescue or recovery efforts amid the eerie silence.
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Victims of Hurricane Dorian and members of the new Haitian Mission Baptist Church join together to sing and pray in the weeks after the hurricane. Many people have not been found. The community mourns and supports each other. For most of them, the worst part is not knowing what will happen in the future. For many of them, being in a community of the same language and culture is the only support they have.
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Evacuees from Abaco Island are desperate to get home cooked meals brought by a local church outside Nassau shelter at the Kendal Isaacs Gynmasium.
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September 18, 2019 - Nassau, Bahamas, USA - Most days the volunteers begin cooking inside the New Haitian Mission Baptist Church before sunrise and don't finish until mid day, when they and other church members bring meals to various shelters. Everything is done by hand and cooked on charcoal stoves. In response to Hurricane Dorian, volunteers from the church prepare and distribute home cooked meals to feed more than 400 Haitian survivors who were evacuated from Abaco Island and brought to different shelters in Nassau.
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With little space in the house, children and adults cram together on the floor to sleep. Because there are no beds, the mothers try to regularly change the blankets where everyone sleeps to keep some cleanliness. Many of them spent several hours in the dirty water before being rescued and now have skin rashes. They don't have enough medicine. 40 evacuees, displaced by Hurricane Dorian from Marsh Harbor, Abaco Island, livein a rented house. 20 of the evacuees in this non-government shelter, are children. All of them are Haitian, many undocumented.
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A Grand Bahamas license plate after Hurricane Dorian swept through the islands.
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The destruction from Hurricane Dorian on Abaco Island in the Bahamas. Two weeks after the storm hit, little has been done. Much of this area remains as if the hurricane had just happened.
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