you can repeat that thousands of times over, spoke to a man from another island in abaco who told me that there was a storm surge. he had gone under. his son reached out to hold him up. he really wanted to let go, he couldn t take anymore, but he said, no, i m not going to let my son see me die this way. and he got himself out of there. sorry, jake. so tough. paula, you were not supposed to spend the night on the abaco islands. what happened? reporter: so, we were at a staging area here in nassau and there are flights everywhere. they just couldn t get us back. with the way the air conditions the airline traffic, the helicopter traffic, obviously. there was a problem. it s so difficult, jake. on the island i was on, they cleared the baseball fields so that we could land, so that we could get ourselves in, billy, and get to that kind of reunion and get some supplies in. so we had to stay there. these people had been through so much. and yet they didn t blink an eye. we said, we ll
how could anyone survive this? [ crying ] okay, okay, okay, okay. i m paula. you re okay. you re okay. it will be okay, okay? i know. reporter: we arrive by helicopter in abaco with billy audrey, embracing his wife, shauna, after days of not knowing whether she was dead or alive. shauna hunkered down with friends inside their home until the roof blew off and they all scrambled to find anything still standing. so this is what kept you guys alive? this little bathroom? this little room. this is where we came in and hunkered down and shauna was on the ground crying. i was hysterical. what did it sound like in here at the time? it was loud. there was a lot of crashing.