Bahamas before and after Dorian – 09/05/2019

They are entire neighborhoods, service stations, airports, houses, marinas, curators … everything is gone. The fury of Dorian was evident in Bahamas in comparing satellite and aerial images before and after the hurricane.

The Leonard M. Thompson airport in Great Abaco was a lake on Wednesday. With its track covered by a thick layer of brown and muddy water. Only when viewing previous images one imagines where the track and the terminal are.

But most impressive, is perhaps the satellite photo that shows the entire Grand Bahama before and after from space.

In the first image, the outline of the island, its coast and its beaches are clearly visible.

In the second image, a portion of land is barely distinguished. The rest was buried under the sea.

The houses and roads in Freeport, the capital are flooded. It is the main city of the island of Grand Bahama and headquarters of the airport, which makes rescue efforts difficult.

In Hope Town, on the small island of Elbow Cay, east of Great abacus, only the lighthouse remains. Its elegant houses, with gray roofs and white walls, surrounded by a bay of blue sea and with yachts anchored under a bright light, is a reminder of the past.

Those houses today are grout of rubble, invaded by sand and destruction.

Man-o-War-Cay, a small island in the archipelago, where a portion of paradise also appeared, days ago, today there are houses with torn roofs and a dark sea.

Two neighborhoods of precarious home immigrants like The Mudd and Pigeon Peas today are nothing. In the distance they look like big dumps, with their houses reduced to crumbs.

The images of Marsh Harbor, the largest city in Great Abacus, also show the level of devastation.

Dorian made landfall between Sunday and Monday with category 5, the maximum of the hurricane scale.

Until Tuesday, the cyclone was literally stranded over the Bahamas, discharging all its fury for two days.

After advancing to the mainland, Dorian dangerously approached the coast of Florida and this Thursday was moving towards the Carolinas, like a Category 3 hurricane.