Dorian entered Canadian lands on Saturday near Halifax degraded by the local hurricane center to "very intense post-tropical cyclone" with winds up to 140 km / h, before returning to the sea on Sunday.
According to the authorities, more than 500,000 homes had no electricity along the coast in the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.
While Canada was facing the storm, the Bahamians who lost everything after the devastating hurricane Dorian tried to escape from the most affected islands, where the top-class storm left at least 43 dead, a figure that authorities expect to increase "significantly" and "numerous missing."
Airplanes, helicopters and ships, both private and governmental, and even cruises, converged on the terribly battered Abaco Islands to help with evacuations, both towards the Bahamian capital of Nassau and the United States.
The facilities of the small airport of Marsh Harbor, on the Abaco Island, suffered the wrath of winds of up to 250 km / h from Dorian, then category 5, the highest. Several hangars were collapsed by the hurricane, although the landing strip was usable and hundreds of people were able to embark towards Nassau.
"It's been almost a week and people don't have food or water. There are still bodies around here, it's not healthy to stay," said a young mother, Chamika Durosier, who left the airport fleeing the bad smell of the toilets, where you can not pull the chain due to lack of water.
"Some have been sleeping here for three or four days, the number of seats is limited on airplanes," says Durosier, who is still injured after the roof of her house fell on her and her daughter by force of Dorian .
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