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Get the Marsh Harbour, Central Abaco local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
For several days, Marsh Harbour Airport on Great Abaco was underwater, and the control tower was damaged by the waters. [24] The airport was closed on September 4. [25] About 90% of the infrastructure in Marsh Harbour was damaged. [26] The shantytowns of Marsh Harbour, housing mostly poor Haitian immigrants, were completely destroyed. [27]
Marsh Harbour is a town in Abaco Islands, Bahamas, with a population of 6,283 as of 2012. [ 3 ] The settlement lies on a peninsula just off the Great Abaco Highway, which runs south through Great Abaco to Cherokee Point and Little Harbour.
Marsh Harbour Airport was among the locations severely damaged by the storm and the runway was underwater for several days. The storm caused an estimated US$9.8 million in damages and there was an additional US$10.5 million in economic impact due to canceled flights. [ 7 ]
Get the Nassau, New Providence local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
It was known as the Great Abaco hurricane [nb 1] or the 1932 Bahamas hurricane, after the site of its worst effects, which it hit at peak intensity. Though large and powerful, it impacted few areas other than islands.
The colossal Atlantic storm has killed at least five people in the Bahamas and has forced more than a million people in the U.S. to evacuate their homes. Hurricane Dorian, stalled over Bahamas ...
Marsh Harbour Airport was the site of a plane crash on 25 August 2001, that claimed the lives of nine passengers, among them R&B singer Aaliyah. [27] The cays can be reached by ferries. The southern cays can be reached from Marsh Harbour and another ferry leaves from the Treasure Cay ferry dock about a half-hour from Marsh Harbour by road.