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- Images from the Bahamas show the severe damage Hurricane Dorian caused to the airports that sat in the storm's path.
- Debris littered the airfield of Grand Bahama International Airport, while small airplanes parked at the airport were ripped apart by 185 mph winds, which battered Grand Bahama and the Abacos Islands from Sunday to Tuesday.
- At least seven people have died as a result of the storm.
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As Hurricane Dorian bears down on the United States, images of sheer destruction have begun to emerge from the Bahamas, where the storm wrought record-breaking winds and brutal rainfall on Sunday Monday.
The worst of the storm only impacted a small part of the Bahamas - a nation made up of more than 700 islands - but the areas that were hit faced "generational devastation," Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said.
Grand Bahama Island was more than 60% underwater as of midday on Tuesday, according to Iceye SAR Satellite Constellation, which took satellite images of the islands after the storm passed.
Complicating relief efforts: severe damage to Grand Bahama's international airport, and smaller regional airports around the islands.
Photos showed buildings and planes destroyed by the storm, with runways sitting underwater.
The hurricane has so far led to seven deaths in the Bahamas, according to officials, and the Red Cross estimates that as many as 13,000 homes may have been severely damaged or destroyed.