At a Glance

Dorian could cost the country $7 billion in insured and uninsured losses.Thousands are still homeless or living in makeshift shelters.Airports were temporarily closed and feeding centers shut down Saturday.

Tropical Storm Humberto put a temporary wrench in aid efforts in the Bahamas on Saturday, as the storm passed near the areas most heavily hit by Hurricane Dorian.

Tropical storm warnings were in effect ahead of the storm for several islands in the northwestern Bahamas, including the devastated Great Abaco and Grand Bahama, as well as New Providence, the island where the capital, Nassau, is located and more than 2,000 hurricane survivors are staying in government shelters.

The storm wasn't on track to bring major impacts to the islands, but it did force the temporary closure of some airports that had reopened after Dorian, and a pause in meals being served by aid groups to survivors, the Associated Press reported.

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The delays were expected.

"The weather system will slow down logistics but we have contingency plans in place," Carl Smith, a spokesman for the country's National Emergency Management Agency, said Friday during a press conference.

Smith didn't go into detail on those plans, but said a shelter had been set up in a church on Grand Bahama for those living in compromised buildings or damaged homes. He did not know what shelters had been set up on Great Abaco.

While the incoming weather wasn't anywhere near as dangerous as Dorian, another government official warned that people should be prepared.

"As previous storms have taught us, things change very quickly. We want residents to take it seriously," Kwasi Thompson, minister of state for Grand Bahama, said Friday, according to the AP.

Thousands of survivors across the two islands are homeless, living in homes that are missing roofs or walls, or in tents and other makeshift shelters on their properties.

A man searches in the rubble of his house destroyed by Hurricane Dorian in Rocky Creek East, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019.

(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

With communications still limited in some locations, some may not be following the storm as it approaches the islands. And even if they are, they may not care in light of the crisis they already facing.

David Curry, a boat captain who rode out Dorian on Grand Bahama and helped rescue several people who were trapped in their attics, told weather.com that he isn't worried. After what he went through with the hurricane, a potential tropical storm pales in comparison.

Curry described what happened as he and a friend went from house to house by boat and chopped holes in people's roofs to free them from the storm surge.

"Some people were screaming," he said. "Some was injured. Most of them were scared ... Most houses were basically under the water."

Many survivors are still looking for loved ones that they haven't seen since before Hurricane Dorian hit on Sept. 1, or coming to terms with the fact that they won't ever see them again – dead or alive.

Phil Thomas Sr., a boat captain on Grand Bahama, is missing his 30-year-old son and three grandchildren. They were staying with his daughter-in-law during the storm, Thomas told the AP. She was found injured and sent to a hospital in Nassau, but there's been no sign of the others.

"People have been looking, but we don't really come up with anything," Thomas said.

He tries to stay busy cleaning up his home to keep his mind off the loss.

"It's one of those things. I'm heartbroken, but life goes on," he said. "You pick up the pieces bit by bit. ... I've got to rebuild a house. I've got three more kids. I've got to live for them until my time comes."

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The number of people officially listed by the government as missing was reduced from 2,500 earlier in the week to 1,300 as of Thursday after the list was checked against names of people who were in shelters or had left the country. That number remained unchanged Friday. The number of dead still stands at 50, despite assertions from survivors and those on the ground that the is in the hundreds, and maybe even thousands.

Smith said in the press conference that about 2,037 hurricane evacuees were in shelters on New Providence, and fewer were coming in each day. The Ministry of Education will be registering displaced students for school there, and the agency has set up a registration point at a stadium in Nassau through mid-October.

Meanwhile, some had entered South Florida from the Bahamas as of Friday morning, CNN.com reported.

Crews had started to remove some debris on Great Abaco and Grand Bahama, the two islands hit hardest by Dorian, the AP also said, but they were moving slowly to avoid accidentally disturbing any bodies lying in the rubble.

In the meantime, electricity has been restored in much of Freeport on Grand Bahama, but the towns on the eastern end of the island remain without power, the AP added. On Great Abaco, most of the electrical infrastructure around the island's biggest city, Marsh Harbour, was destroyed.

Water distribution points had been set up around the islands, despite reports of shortages in some areas, especially on Great Abaco.

"I think it’s related to the communications problem we have because there is a tremendous amount of water there," Smith said at the press conference.

He said there may be some pockets of people that have not been able to reach authorities to let them know they are in need, or vice versa.

Smith became visibly frustrated when asked why the body count was unchanged, and why some relief efforts aren't moving faster.

"We are trying to bring order out of the chaos and we are doing the best we can," he said.