Of their bark by maria. piled high onto the road until they become the road. you don t walk to point michel, you climb and clamber. these are what s left of the rain forests, giants that stood centuries, thrown like matchsticks across the shoreline. the rain forests now just a memory. once at point michel we hear the stories of those who survived like miranda john. when i came back and i saw inside there, i just break down. everything, gone. the sea was right inside there. reporter: as we venture further into the community, we find salma francis, who insisted her mother leave her home next door to be with the family as maria bore down. this is what remains of her mother s house. these are stories repeated throughout the village. we met joan frampton further along the road.
Hurricane maria brought misery and death to dominica. the island still has no running water and is running low onned too and supplies. the village of port michel was one of the worst-hit areas. our michael holmes traveled there and has this exclusive report. reporter: the drive between dominica s capital roso and the coastal village of port michel usually takes no more than ten minutes. after hurricane maria, getting between the two is looking back on an odyssey of hurricane carnage, on foot. we ve been told point michel was one of the most badly hit areas of dominica and more people died in this community than any other. more than a dozen confirmed dead, many others missing. the foot traffic is constant, mostly out of point michel. food is running low and people
Head to the capital to find what they can. we meet jermaine fontaine on the way, leaving home because she no longer has one. we are homeless, but we are okay, we have life. our entire home isone,every thing i had in my house is gone. reporter: the closer you get the more apocalyptic the scenes become. it is an assault on the senses. here a massive tree shoved into a house and blocking the way. during the storm, ra veeps and waterways became furious torrents, obliterating everything in their path. there s no running water on dominica. these waterways are now the only way to bathe or wash clothes. the scale of this is just impossible to get your head around. this was the main road to point michel from the capital. and i mean, just look at it. along the main section of the road to point michel, the trees begin. thousands of them stripped even