Strangers fight to leave the devastated Bahamas

With hardly any water or food and with electricity totally absent after the pbading of the terrible hurricane "Dorian", thousands of strangers focus their efforts on this odyssey of trying to leave the Abaco and Grand Bahama Islands. The Bahamas archipelago has been the scene of the worst scourge of the hurricane. There are at least 46 dead. The destruction of the houses is almost total.

Since the strong cyclone winds, with bursts of 200 km / hour, which ceased to be felt late this Tuesday in Freeport, many of the inhabitants of the second largest city of the Bahamas seek to escape the disaster of the region, the most affected by the disaster. The cyclone One of them is the 54-year-old Venezuelan Argimiro Torres, who is waiting at the Freeport airport with a group of four compatriots that his company sends a plane. A small group of people get on, then take off, other low capacity planes. Others are loaded with essential supplies and agree to evacuate a few people, whose names are part of a long list of waiting. Another of those affected, Julio César Ceballos, is also part of this group of Venezuelans working in the Bahamas in a ship repair business. The welder looks tired after days of tension and is waiting next to the airport to get out. The air option came after Friday, they tried the port of Freeport, but there were "too many people". The ship, which transferred free those who were sick, quickly filled up. "It's an odyssey to get out of here," laments Ceballos, who only thinks about being evacuated to be able to bathe and rest in an air-conditioned place. About a thousand people were luckier than arriving yesterday in Palm Beach, Florida for a cruise. 300 lucky others were able to board the Mariner of the Seas cruise. Loaded with large suitcases in which they seem to be carrying what little they have left, families with children and wheelchair seniors are slowly getting closer to the ship bound for Nbadau, capital of the Bahamas, who has not been touched by Dorian.

Nothing to do with Grand Bahama, where other types of waiting are repeated, whether for water, food, fuel or in banks, because everything on the island is exchanged for money and money. Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis has announced that the death toll has dropped from 30 to 43. Minnis has acknowledged that many people are still missing and that the death toll can increase dramatically. Of the 43 deaths, 35 occurred in the Abaco Islands and 8 in Grand Bahama. Hurricane Dorian on its way to Canada, where it would arrive today, would be weakened, with a level of force.