Mortuary workers carried out the grim task of searching for bodies in heaps of rubble on Friday as dazed survivors of Hurricane Dorian waited for relief from the Category 5 storm that ravaged the northern Bahamas.
At least 30 deaths have been reported from the monster storm but hundreds -- perhaps thousands -- of people are missing and Bahamian officials said the final toll could be "staggering."
"No electricity, no water, no nothing."
"I honestly believe Abaco is finished," said Thaah Hepburn, another resident of Marsh Harbour. "Absolutely everything is gone."
"It's a chance I don't think people are willing to take."
"It's 100 per cent devastated all over."
"We've got plans to move but we don't know when."
"My plan is to leave, find some other place to live."
Of the eventual death toll, Sands declared: "Let me say that I believe the number will be staggering."
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