Devastated by Dorian: Photos From the Bahamas

A beached boat sits on the destroyed seafront near the port in Marsh Harbour, Bahamas, on September 10, 2019. #
- An Oil spillage caused by the force of Hurricane Dorian, photographed above Freeport, Bahamas, on September 10, 2019 Alejandro Granadillo / Anadolu Agency via Getty
- Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line volunteers carry donated mattresses off their ship in Freeport, Bahamas, on September 16, 2019. Zak Bennett / AFP / Getty
A medical clinic is set up by International Medical Corps in High Rock, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, on September 16, 2019. Zak Bennett / AFP / Getty
- Damage is seen in the wake of Hurricane Dorian in Marsh Harbour, Great Abaco, Bahamas, on September 9, 2019. #Loren Elliott / Reuters
Four-year-old Alain Philogene wraps his arms around his mother, Edeline Gerumet, of Marsh Harbour, Great Abaco, as they pass the time with fellow Hurricane Dorian refugees at a shelter set up at the Kendal G. L. Isaacs National Gymnasium in Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas, on September 10, 2019. #Loren Elliott / Reuters
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Margie Gerthadauphin (bottom) and her daughter Kimberly look over her destroyed home as they try to salvage any belongings in Marsh Harbour, Bahamas, on September 10, 2019. #Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / Getty
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A helicopter flies over a destroyed building in Marsh Harbour, Bahamas, on September 10, 2019. #Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / Getty
Sheltered dogs wait to be claimed by their owners, who are missing and assumed dead, at the Humane Society of Grand Bahama in Freeport, Bahamas, on September 16, 2019. #Zak Bennett / AFP / Getty
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A payphone sits surrounded by sand on a beach in High Rock, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, on September 16, 2019. #Zak Bennett / AFP / Getty
Dexter Edwards (front), his brother Nathanael Edwards (right), and his cousin Valentino Ingraham walk amid one of their family's homes, destroyed by Hurricane Dorian, in Rocky Creek East End, Grand Bahama, on September 8, 2019. “Right now, ain’t much joy. You just gotta try to keep your head up,” one of the brothers said. “There’s always a future. Only thing we can do right now is rebuild—rebuild and try to move forward.” #Ramon Espinosa / AP
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Dexter Edwards, along with his brother and cousin, pushes over a motorboat amid the rubble of his cousin's home, destroyed by Hurricane Dorian, in Rocky Creek East End, Grand Bahama, on September 8, 2019. Their families lived off the income from three boats they used for fishing and providing tourist excursions from a pristine beachfront facing the turquoise Caribbean. #Ramon Espinosa / AP
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Damaged homes, photographed after Hurricane Dorian devastated Elbow Key Island, on September 8, 2019, in Hope Town, Bahamas #Jose Jimenez / Getty
A police officer searches for the dead in the destroyed Mudd neighborhood after Hurricane Dorian hit the Abaco Islands in Marsh Harbour, Bahamas, on September 10, 2019. #Marco Bello / Reuters
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Open grave sites are seen at the municipal cemetery in High Rock, Grand Bahama, after the passage of Hurricane Dorian, on September 16, 2019. #Zak Bennett / AFP / Getty
Abaco Islands residents are evacuated from the island at the airport in the wake of Hurricane Dorian in Marsh Harbour, Great Abaco, on September 8, 2019. #Loren Elliott / Reuters
A broken palm is silhouetted by the the sunrise in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian in Marsh Harbor, Abaco Island, on September 7, 2019.#Fernando Llano / AP
Relief aid is off-loaded from the Royal Caribbean ship Navigator of the Seas, in from Nassau, on September 11, 2019, in Freeport, Grand Bahama. The aid is being accompanied by 16 medical personnel from Puerto Rico bound for a field hospital on the island. #Jose Jimenez / Getty
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A volunteer with the NGO World Central Kitchen loads food for distribution into an SUV in Marsh Harbour on September 10, 2019. #Marco Bello / Reuters
Residents receive food and water in Grand Bahama as part of relief efforts by Royal Caribbean in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian on September 12, 2019. Royal Caribbean has been providing 20,000 hot and cold meals daily in the immediate aftermath of the storm, and will continue the efforts with a temporary land-based kitchen on the island. #Jose Jimenez / Getty
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Ayfon Minus, 8, collects donated food that was brought by helicopter from Freeport to the hurricane-destroyed village of High Rock, Grand Bahama, on September 10, 2019. # Ramon Espinosa / AP
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- Wreckage left in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, seen on the island of Abaco on September 11, 2019 #
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Destroyed boats are pushed up against the pier in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian in Treasure Cay on Abaco Island on September 11, 2019.#Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / Getty
Synobia Reckley holds up the dress her niece wore as a flower girl at her wedding, as she goes through valuables in the rubble of her home, destroyed by Hurricane Dorian, in Rocky Creek East End, Grand Bahama, on September 8, 2019. #Ramon Espinosa / AP
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Pastor Jeremiah Saunders poses for a photo among the ruins of his church, which was destroyed by Hurricane Dorian, in High Rock, Grand Bahama, on September 11, 2019. "I spoke to the water: 'Peace, be still.' It never listened," Saunders said with a wide smile, and then he grew serious as he focused on the task that tens of thousands of Bahamians now face on two islands devastated by the Category 5 storm: the cleanup. #Ramon Espinosa / AP
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Storm clouds form early in the morning near Marsh Harbour on Abaco Island on September 11, 2019.#Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / Getty
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