![[Hurricane Hugo t-shirt, St Thomas, 1989]](/images/Hurricanes/hugo-shirt.jpg)
"Good God! what horror and destruction - it's impossible for me to describe - or you to form any idea of it." -- Alexander Hamilton
Hurricane Hugo: I survived the longest night - September 17-18, 1989.
![[Hurricane Hugo phone pole, St Thomas, 1989]](/images/Hurricanes/hugo-phone.jpg)
... and the aftermath.
![[Point Ledge after Hurrican Marilyn, St Thomas, 1995]](/images/Hurricanes/marilyn-pointledge.jpg)
(Source: FEMA photo library)
Here we go again: Hurricane Marilyn, September 15-16, 1995.
![[blue tarps after Hurrican Marilyn, St Thomas, 1995]](/images/Hurricanes/marilyn-tarps.jpg)
(Source: FEMA photo library)
"Today is a little bit better than yesterday." -- Addie Ottley