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Bahamians Look for Loved Ones as 1,300 Remain Missing After Dorian

Associated Press

   MCLEAN'S TOWN, BAHAMAS - They scan social media, peer under rubble, or
   try to follow the smell of deathto try tofind family and friends.

   They search amid alarming reports that 1,300 people remain listed as
   missing nearly two weeks after Hurricane Dorian hit the northern
   Bahamas.

   The government, which has put the official death toll at 50, has
   cautioned that the list ispreliminaryand many could be staying in
   shelters and just haven't been able to connect with loved ones.

   But fears are growing that many more died when the Category 5 storm
   slammed into the archipelago's northern region with winds in excess of
   185 mph and severe flooding that toppled concrete walls and cracked
   trees in halfas Dorian battered the area for a day and a half.

   "If they were staying with me, they would've been safe," Phil Thomas
   said as he leaned against the frame of his roofless home in the fishing
   village of McLean's Town andlooked intothe distance.

   'He was my fishing partner'

   The boat captain has not seen his 30-year-old son, his two grandsons or
   his granddaughter since the storm. They were all staying with his
   daughter-in-law, who was injured and taken to a hospital in the
   capital, Nassau, after the U.S. Coast Guard found her -- but only her.

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