LATEST: By Sunday, Great Abaco was becoming a ghost town, as thousands of people try to evacuate by plane and boat after Hurricane Dorian. “These clothes on me, that’s all I have.' DaniellaLSilva and thisismariana report from Marsh Harbour on Sunday.
MARSH HARBOUR, Bahamas — About a week afteron record, those remaining here at the site of the devastation said the storm took away everything from them.
, but with many still reported missing, that number is feared to dramatically rise. Most deaths were here in the Abaco Islands, which were home to some 17,000 people.By Sunday, Great Abaco was becoming a ghost town, as thousands of people try to evacuate by plane and boat. Mailey Nord and her son, Asher, 8, leave Marsh Harbour on a flight to Nassau. "We lost everything, but I'm thankful to god that I'm still alive," Nord Said. "I feel much better now that I'm in the plane. I have nothing left."The Delta plane was one of two flights the company was sending on Sunday for evacuations, according to George Mattson, a member of Delta’s board of directors. The flight also brought in 5,000 pounds of relief aid, he said.
While about 60 people were waiting at Marsh Harbour’s airport for the flight, hundreds more had mistakenly gone to an airport in an area called Treasure Cay because of misinformation and ongoing communication issues on the island, he said. The Central Abaco Primary School in Marsh Harbour was serving as a shelter for some of those who remained.
Charvis McPhee at the makeshift shelter at the Central Abaco Primary School, one of the few buildings left standing on the island, on Sept. 8, 2019.He said days earlier hundreds of survivors had been living at the school; on Sunday about 100 people remained. He was living at a friend’s home, but came that day to check in on other friends.
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