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    'You Can't Stay Here': Dorian Leaves Parts Of The Bahamas Uninhabitable

    Before-and-after satellite imagery shows just how staggering the devastation is across the Bahamas, with entire neighborhoods drowning in floodwaters.
    by Samantha Raphelson Sep 06, 2019 2 minutes
    Evacuee Samazio Rolle and his dog, Logan, sit in the shade next to an airplane in the afternoon heat at a landing strip on Abaco, in hopes of catching a flight to Nassau. The pair survived Hurricane Dorian's punishing strike on the Bahamas — and now they want to leave Abaco.

    In the Bahamas, people are desperately trying to escape Great Abaco Island, days after Hurricane Dorian demolished homes and obliterated infrastructure there. Faced with no running water, no electricity and with food stores running out, residents say there's nothing left for them.

    "You can't stay here," Sharona Etienne-Cole of Great Abaco tells NPR.

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