07-09-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com

For Bahamas island's new homeless, a grim wait for evacuation

Miralda Smith spoke in a nervous near-whisper as she lined up Saturday with hundreds of other weary, shell-shocked residents of devastated Marsh Harbour to leave the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas.Smith, a Haitian national, had arrived on foot at 4:00 am (0800 GMT) after the shantytown where she and many other Haitian workers lived -- The Mudd -- was almost completely wiped out by Hurricane Dorian.The line stretched from a hangar -- the roof of which had been ripped off by Dorian's Category 5 wind
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