As much as 95 percent of the buildings in the Eight Mile Rock and Holmes Rock areas in Grand Bahama received significant damage from Hurricane Matthew on Thursday night and Friday morning.
The Bahamas Power & Light Company (BPL) has said it could take days "or even longer" before power is restored to all customers on the island.
As airports in South Florida look toward gradually resuming normal flight schedules in the wake of Hurricane Matthew passing through that area, travel hubs further north are battening down and bringing flights to a halt as the storm bears down there.
The storm chugged along at 12 mph, with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. Flooding and strong winds were spreading inland in the Carolinas.
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