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Emerging From the Other Side of the Hurricane

​There Was No Place to Hide From ​This One!

​​We Survived, but, very little else did . . .

​​After a life-threatening evening of terror from the Category 5 hurricane named "Maria", we awoke to find our island Paradise had been converted into a debris field of thousands (yes, THOUSANDS!) of toppled power poles, uprooted trees and damaged  buildings. My residence was no exception and, I'm writing this post now from a new temporary apartment location that has restored power and internet service. 

The status for our island at present is:

  1. no power in most locations, and, none promised for months yet.
  2. no water service,
  3. no commercial air flights,
  4. no internet services for the most part and
  5. spotty/disrupted cell-phone services as well.
  6. roadways blocked with downed power lines and trees

​I'll be spending the coming weeks trying to reestablish business operations from my new location as power is not expected to be restored for months at my other residence.

​I ask patience from those who e-mailed me since the hurricane. I'm trying to get caught up. Technical questions will take a little longer to address for obvious reasons.

I'll try to put up some market observations in the coming days or weeks.

Thank you for your continued support & good wishes. - George

“Just When You Think You’re Out . . .”

. . . They Pull You Back In!"

​Yet Another Hurricane ('Maria'), Coming Our Way!

​Someone has hit the 'Replay' button to the 'Hurricane Game' and, we're facing another furious storm threat here on St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands within the next day (or two at most).

​We were miraculously spared the devastation of the Cat 5 Storm called IRMA and this allowed St. Croix to act as a staging area to provide food, shelter and aid to our Caribbean neighbors including our Sister Islands of St. Thomas and St. John which were greatly damaged by IRMA.

We need your good wishes and positive thoughts so we can continue to be in a position to extend help to those who need it in our area. It just wouldn't do to have us incapacitated too!

​As a side note, any orders received today or tomorrow will likely be delayed in response from my end as we're sure to have electrical blackouts and shipping slowdowns during the time the storm passes by here. - George