official yet to come to say, well, here is a bottle of water or to see what's going on. >> reporter: the damage to smitty's home defies description. a wall of water crashed over this part of the island. smitty and his teenage daughter survived. many others did not. this is the hole that hurricane dorian punched into the house of washington smith. i should say one of the holes. tore off his roof. send boards with nails flying at over 100 miles an hour through his house. everywhere you go you see damage. you see how the shrapnel shredded the ceiling. careful with this. you see a nail sticking out of a board that came flying through. and then the most frightening thing is you see where the water rose to all along here.