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BAHAMAS DORIAN: Homes utterly destroyed by hurricane

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Villas and condos in Treasure Cay, Bahamas are torn to shreds by Hurricane Dorian's wrath in footage captured on September 5.

"I am heartbroken by what has happened to my friends, my country," filmer and local resident Jessica Robertson told Newsflare at the time. "Until last Thursday, we had only seen a few aerial images of Treasure Cay and from above it didn't look too bad. .... Then I got there on the ground and realized just how awful it is," Robertson, a former journalist, added.

Hurricane Dorian first hit the Abaco Islands, where Treasure Cay is located, as a Category 5 storm with 185 mph winds. That ties it for the strongest landfall on record.

Meteorologists believe that winds might have even gusted up to 220 mph, akin to a tornado except dozens of miles wide. Winds of that speed have the power to destroy whole houses, or at least rip off the roofs. Dorian is offically tied for being the second-strongest hurricane (in terms of windspeed) ever recorded in the Atlantic.

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