High Rock, Bahamas (CNN) Step into the Bahamian town of High Rock and three things hit you immediately: Silence, a stench of death, and utter destruction left by Hurricane Dorian.

Virtually no one was coming down the road into this Grand Bahama island town Thursday afternoon. Aside from a crew looking for bodies, no team has arrived with food or other aid for those who remain in a community that usually has about 300 people.

That's probably because Dorian has made High Rock -- like many other towns outside the main city of Freeport -- so hard to get to.

That means pictures and stories of devastation in communities like these are just beginning to emerge.

The police station's roof is gone, and a concrete wall lies ruined.

It normally takes an hour to drive from Freeport to High Rock on Grand Bahama's southern coast. For days after Dorian, high water made getting there by road impossible.

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