>> reporter: the damage to smitty's home defies description. a wall of water crashed over this part of the island. smitty and his teenager daughter survived. many others did not. this is the hole that hurricane dorian punched in the house of washington smith, i should say one of the holes. it t his work. sent boards with nails flying at over 100 miles per hour through his house. everywhere you go you see damage. you see how shrapnel shredded the ceiling. be careful of this. you see a nail sticking out of a board that came flying through. and then the most frightening thing, see where the water rose to. all along here. it came up, up, higher and higher, until here.