Where did all the people go? I see close ups of totally destroyed towns

[riversedge]

on cnn--aerial views. but I never see any people -maybe checking out things? their destroyed homes. etc. I do not even hear them talk of any shelters.

[Retrograde]

1. I hate to think it

but I fear many were swept out to sea - it was a huge storm in a low-lying area. Some were saved, but it will likely take days if not weeks to go through all the wreckage.

[CottonBear]

2. BBC : Hurricane Dorian: Bahamas death toll expected to be 'staggering'

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49602445

Officials are sending morticians and 200 body bags to the Abaco Islands, the worst-hit part of the archipelago.
Dorian - which devastated the northern Bahamas from Sunday to Tuesday - is now battering the coasts of South and North Carolina in the US, but is weakening.
Officials say hundreds, possibly thousands, are still missing in the Abacos and Grand Bahama.

On Thursday Health Minister Duane Sands warned of a "staggering" final count.
"The public needs to prepare for unimaginable information about the death toll and the human suffering," he told local radio.