A Bahamas fisherman who survived Hurricane Dorian became emotional as he described helplessly watching his wife drown during the storm.

Howard Armstrong said the water rose rapidly Tuesday inside their Freeport home, CNN reported.

“We were doing all right until the water kept coming up and all the appliances were going around the house like a washing machine,” Armstrong told the news outlet.

The water eventually came up to their necks as they struggled to stay alive, he said.

“That’s probably when I was hit by something in there, and my poor little wife got hypothermia, and she was standing on top of the kitchen cabinets until they disintegrated, and then she just drowned on me,” he told CNN while he choked out sobs.

The crab fisherman said he “took a chance” and escaped by swimming to his nearby boat.

“So I had got out of the house after my wife drowned because you couldn’t be there anymore,” Armstrong said. “I had no tools to chop a hole in the roof in the ceiling, so I saw my boat was there and I swam. I took a chance and I swam out to it.”

Armstrong said he had never experienced flooding like this week’s storm.

“Everything I own is gone,” Armstrong said. “Every single thing.”

Bahamian officials said at least seven people have died since the hurricane made landfall Sunday on the island, CNN reported.

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