‘There’s nothing left’: Storm reduces paradise to a miserable heap

AAGOF5M (1)Source: MSN News

By  Anthony Faiola

GREEN TURTLE CAY, Bahamas —The New Plymouth Hardware store has been smashed to kindling. More importantly, Curry’s Grocery Store, too. Some of the boats at Donny’s Marina have been broken to matchsticks. Others lie on their sides in the middle of the street.

This barrier island off Great Abaco in the northern Bahamas was already a community apart. When Hurricane Dorian struck on Sunday, it was completely isolated.

“We didn’t leave because we’d been through other storms,” said Craig Curry, 55. “But not this. This was nothing like we’ve ever seen.”

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