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Hurricane Dorian hit Marsh Harbour on Abaco in the Bahamas particularly hard. This October 2019 photo shows how the storm's powerful winds and storm surge obliterated the island's largest city. Russell Lewis/NPR hide caption

Volunteers from Team Rubicon, a Texas-based veterans group, clean up a church in Marsh Harbour. Russell Lewis/NPR hide caption

Left: Volunteers take part in a "mapathon" organized by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Right: OpenStreetMap contributors pinpoint dump sites along rivers and waterways in Dar es Salaam in an effort to predict and prevent flooding in the Tanzanian city. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team hide caption

"The number of people registered missing with the Bahamas government is going down daily," a spokesman for the Bahamian National Emergency Management Agency assured the public. Ramon Espinosa/AP hide caption

Philip "P.J." Thomas was a captain and harbor pilot who along with his three children died when Hurricane Dorian roared through Grand Bahama island on Sept. 1. Fort Schuyler Shipmates hide caption

Several hundred Haitians and Bahamians wait at the port of Marsh Harbour in hopes of boarding a boat to Nassau on Friday. Cheryl Diaz Meyer for NPR hide caption

Hurricane Dorian's outer bands are lashing Florida as the storm moves northward along the U.S. coastline. NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/GOES-East hide caption

An satellite image from the company ICEYE shows flooding on Grand Bahama on Monday. The satellite uses radar to look through the clouds. ICEYE hide caption

Residents wade through a street flooded with water brought on by Hurricane Dorian in Freeport, Bahamas, on Tuesday. The storm spent most of Monday and into the morning Tuesday essentially stalled out over the Bahamas, relentlessly pounding the islands with high winds and catastrophic flooding. Ramon Espinosa/AP hide caption

Hurricane Dorian, now a Category 5 storm, tracks toward the Florida coast on Sept. 1. NOAA GOES-East satellite handout/Getty Images hide caption

This Friday, Aug. 30, 2019, image provided by NASA shows a view of Hurricane Dorian from the International Space Station as the hurricane churned over the Atlantic Ocean. NASA/AP hide caption

Water was sold out at a grocery store in North Miami, Fla., on Friday as residents heeded warnings to stockpile a week's worth of food and supplies before Hurricane Dorian arrives on Monday. Wilfredo Lee/AP hide caption