Hurricane Irma Aftermath
Well, what can you say...after a week of 24/7 news coverage, endless doomsday pontifications, mass evacuations, and great hysteria...the storm is gone. Lots of regional flooding, downed trees and pow...
Forum Discussion
Choosing to live in a hurricane prone area is one thing. Choosing not to build to withstand even a cat 2 storm then complaining when you lose your house is something else.
Being without electricity for a few days, a week even, is a nuisance. It is not the end of the world. Had a hurricane knock out power for 6 weeks. Camping in your house gets old pretty quick.
Still, even that is NOTHING compared to what the storm did to the islands. Barbuda has been evacuated. Nothing has been left standing. As for the other islands which got hit when the storm was at its strongest, help is not a few days drive away by truck. Help is by sea or air. Airports & seaports have been trashed.
Spare a thought for those islands as yet another storm bears down on them.
Being without electricity for a few days, a week even, is a nuisance. It is not the end of the world. Had a hurricane knock out power for 6 weeks. Camping in your house gets old pretty quick.
Still, even that is NOTHING compared to what the storm did to the islands. Barbuda has been evacuated. Nothing has been left standing. As for the other islands which got hit when the storm was at its strongest, help is not a few days drive away by truck. Help is by sea or air. Airports & seaports have been trashed.
Spare a thought for those islands as yet another storm bears down on them.
