If you have never been to St John it is a magical place only 11 miles wide and covered primarily by the Virgin Islands National Park. It’s home to only 5000 lucky residents, but it is a vacation destination for thousands. It’s a place that if you visit once you’ll want to come back again and again until eventually you can move there, which is how my wife and I ended up on the island. Once know for the white sand beaches, laid back attitude, and miles of green hills; St. John now is almost unrecognizable. Trees with no leaves, homes with no roofs, brown for miles with not a hint of green or blue; the island was decimated. It was physically decimated and economically too as our primary industry, tourism, will not recuperate for years making it hard for locals to get on their feet again.
Since Irma St. John has been without power, cell service, running water and peace of mind. Though relief has come to the island it is woefully inadequate because of the horrifically fertile hurricane season this year. Within two weeks three major storm systems had moved
Thank you,
Josh Bourassa