“Hopefully a plane will come soon and get us outta here.” Video footage shows flipped cars, sparking electrical lines, battered homes and flooded roads after Hurricane Dorian's direct hit on Great Abaco Island.
Leigh Lamattina-Davis, a resident of Marsh Harbour, a town of roughly 6,000 on Great Abaco, described the direct hit as “total devastation.”
Lamattina-Davis, who’s lived on the island for 25 years, said that power lines were down, car alarms were blaring and people were “wailing.”for updates on Hurricane Dorian The hurricane center warned people on the island who were making the videos to immediately take shelter.A volunteer fire and recuse agency in nearby Hope Town said late Sunday that two islands, Elbow Cay and Man-o-War, both east of Marsh Harbour, suffered"catastrophic damage."
The Bahamas’ Minister of Tourism, Dionisio D'Aguilar, said that many residents appeared to have underestimated the “catastrophic” damage Dorian could bring.
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