Residents of the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas are struggling to come to grips with the devastation left behind by Hurricane Dorian — with one local explaining, “Everything’s gone.”

Nearly half of the homes on the Abacos and the Grand Bahama Islands were destroyed or badly damaged by the storm, the Red Cross said, according to CBS News.

“Everything’s gone! Everything! Everything,” one woman told the network, which sent a reporter to the community of Treasure Cay.

Another woman, Nancy Albury, was at the local airport trying to find a spot on a plane to get off the island. She hunkered down in her home in the community of Man-o-War as the Category 5 storm passed through.

“The house had broken up around us,” Albury told CBS. “And we cracked the door open and there was nothing left.”

For dozens of others, the airport served as a reunion spot for lost family members.

Those in the disaster zone were airlifted out and taken to the capital, Nassau, which was spared from Dorian’s wrath.

Survivors included Robert and Phyllis Cornea, who’ve called Abaco home for 50 years.

“All the buildings, all the main buildings, gone,” Robert told CBS. “Everything. Gone.”

Phyllis said she managed to escape with just the clothes on her back.

“I’ve been in this four days,” she said about her outfit.

Dorian’s destruction left 20 people dead in the Bahamas, though authorities expect the death toll will rise.

The storm, which was recently upgraded to a Category 3 after briefly weakening, began battering South Carolina on Thursday.