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 winds — to the dock, where soldiers inspected people’s baggage before it was stacked onto pallets and wrapped in plastic for loading on ships.
