Almost 4 months after Hurricane Dorian flattened and flooded Great Abaco Island, the devastation looks much as it did when the storm swept through.
Her 19-year-old son now lives on the island of Nassau, while she and her 13-year-old daughter live on another Bahamian island in Spanish Wells. Russell travels back and forth to the Abaco Islands.
“There is no home to go to,” she said. “There is an island with destruction and crumbled buildings, but there’s nowhere for these people to live.” “I understand what people are dealing with,” he said. “And by the same token, I understand the efforts that are afoot to address it, and I also say that we have to do it in a methodical and in an orderly fashion.”
While some have expressed frustration with the pace of the efforts, government officials have said it took the U.S. years to recover after Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 storm, hit Florida in 1992 and Category 3 Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005 . They have said it takes a long time to get the necessary supplies to the Bahamas because it's an island. While the timeline for recovery is a moving target, some estimate it could probably take years.
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