'She just drowned on me... She was gone so quickly.' As Hurricane Dorian ravaged Freeport, the main city on Grand Bahama, fisherman Howard Armstrong had to watch helplessly as his wife died in the rising flood that claimed their home.
The water rose quickly, he told CNN, and soon it was up to their necks.Howard Armstrong "We were doing all right until the water kept coming up, and all the appliances were going around the house, like the washer machine," said Armstrong, who is a crab fisherman.His wife, Lynn, was standing on the kitchen cabinets, the only place where"your head would touch the roof," he said. Only their heads were above the water.
When the storm finally released its devastating hold on the Bahamas on Tuesday, seven people were known to have died -- all on the Abaco islands, east of Grand Bahama -- and officials fear the death toll will rise sharply as more accounts like Armstrong's come to light.In the Bahamas, shocking scenes of devastation left by deadly Hurricane Dorian"She was gone so quickly," Armstrong said as he waited for his wife's body to be recovered.
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