Hurricane Dorian: Bahamas defends hurricane response
Authorities in the Bahamas have defended their response to Hurricane Dorian after it hit the island last week.
Dorian ripped through the Bahamas last Sunday with category five winds with some gusts reaching 300km/h . Carl Smith, spokesperson for the Bahamas' National Emergency Management Agency said he was satisfied with the response."I am satisfied that Nema with its partners is doing everything it can to move as effectively and as efficiently as it can, given the circumstances. We are dealing with a disaster.
"I was struck by the focused nature of the devastation," he told Reuters news agency."There are parts of Abaco and the Bahamas that don't show a great deal of damage, and then there are clusters and communities that were devastated, almost as though nuclear bombs were dropped on them."
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