We had to ride out Hurricane Ivan in Barbados/2004. The eye of the storm turned at the last minute and hit Grenada with Barbados missing the brunt. The winds were high enough that it actually blew some of the tarmac off the runways shutting down the airport for several days with one fatality, but it was scary as hell with us in the bathroom all night holding back the storm surge with our feet on a mattress holding blankets stuffed under and around the door. We had to spend most of the week in the walled resort with reports of looters armed with machete's getting revenge and giving paybacks. Meanwhile on Grenada that was devastated, Prisoners that were captured during the US invasion of Grenada got out of the prison and used machetes to wreak havoc on the island until they were captured.
Do United States Marshals have jurisdiction in the USVI? Because if so, I believe they have a governor to detain.
No kidding. We didn't know it at the time, but a son of a friend was going to med school there. Said he was scared to death. It got pretty ugly I guess. One of the deepest trenches in the ocean is between Barbados and Grenada. The next day we walked the beach looking at all the dead critters washed up from the deep in the storm surge surf. Some really strange looking creatures.
In effect until the Governor decides to rescind it. Sounds like Martial law or a dictatorship.
DAMN........ Ain't that some crap?????
