- Hurricane Dorian devastated the Bahamas, making a record-tying landfall in the Abaco Islands as a Category 5 storm on Sunday. It was the most powerful storm the Bahamas have ever seen.
- The hurricane ground to a halt over the northwestern Bahamas for over 24 hours, killing at least 30 people and leveling entire neighborhoods.
- These satellite images show what parts of the Bahamas looked like before and after Dorian. Swipe back and forth to see the damage.
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Hurricane Dorian spent more than 24 devastating hours hovering over the Bahamas last weekend, ripping away roofs, flooding homes, and killing at least 30 people.
Dorian made landfall in the Abacos islands as a Category 5 storm, bringing 185-mph sustained winds with gusts up to 220 mph. It tied the record for the strongest Atlantic hurricane landfall ever.
The storm hit Marsh Harbour, the largest city on Great Abaco island, at 2 p.m. ET on Sunday and left it destroyed. The damage to the downtown area is pictured below. Swipe back and forth to see satellite images from before and after Dorian.
The Red Cross estimated that a total of 13,000 houses were destroyed across the Bahamas — that's 45% of all homes on the islands of Grand Bahama and Abaco.
Bahamas officials expect Dorian's death toll to rise as search efforts continue, and the total "could be staggering," Duane Sands, the Bahamas Minister of Health, told the New York Times on Thursday.
"We are embalming bodies so that we have more capacity as new bodies are brought in," Sands said. "We need to get coolers into Abaco and Grand Bahama, because we believe that we may not have the capacity to store the bodies."
Bahamas officials are sending morticians and 200 body bags to the Abaco Islands, CNN reported on Friday.
Accessing Marsh Harbour has been difficult because the Leonard Thompson International Airport, pictured below, remained under 6 feet of water. It is still closed to most planes.
The tiny island of Green Turtle Cay lies just east of the Abacos. When Dorian arrived there on Sunday, its winds blew down trees and ripped houses apart.
