Richard Branson’s Virgin Islands’ home destroyed by Hurricane Irma [Everyone OK]

www.marketwatch.com ^ | Sept 7, 2017 9:11 a.m. ET | staff

[Beagle8U]

What a jip. I thought it would be a shot of her shinnying up a tree, from the ground view.

All that was is a bimbo sitting in a tree.

[RummyChick]

Richard Branson's menagerie of exotic animals are not all accounted for after Hurricane Irma tore through Branson's Necker Island ... TMZ has learned.

As we reported, Branson proudly assembled an awesome array of animals, including lemurs, flamingos, gigantic tortoises and exotic birds, among others.

We're told the lemurs were herded into guest rooms on the island and the parrots and tortoises were caged and stored in some of the structures. A number of structures on the island were either heavily damaged or destroyed, and people are now searching through the rubble, trying to find all the animals.

As for the flamingos -- and there are hundreds -- there was nothing Branson or his people could do ... the were left by the small lake to fend for themselves. As we reported, flamingos try to protect themselves in the midst of a hurricane by forming a line and taking turns buffering the others. With a storm as strong as Irma, however, that may have been a futile effort. The good news ... Branson, his family and his team have all been accounted for and are safe. http://www.tmz.com/2017/09/07/richard-branson-necker-island-survives-hurricane-irma-animals-sheltered/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

[Fightin Whitey]

That's she's climbing trees instead of poles IS news.

Not an uninteresting photo either. 'Cept for the eclipse by the east and west stars.

[jiggyboy]

Im sure someone like him and his money has a super duper reinforced bunker of some kind...

I do believe via the earlier reports that this was, I say was, his super duper reinforced bunker.

[RummyChick]

[RooRoobird20]

It’s hard to feel sorry for some sanctimonious left tard billionaire.

[Red Badger]

If you have an Instagram account you’ll get the full ‘exposure’..................................

[RegulatorCountry]

Too bad life really isn’t like a 70’s disaster movie. Branson would’ve been swept away screaming because of his hubris, but the innocent animals would have been mostly OK.

[dayglored]

> Kim Kardashian posts nude photo of her climbing tree on Instagram:...

> "...Kardashian had stars photoshopped on her breasts to avoid complete nudity..."

FAKE NEWS!! She also had BOOTS on!!

Man, ya can't trust the media to get ANYTHING right!!

[Red Badger]

Post #11!.....................

[Fightin Whitey]

You’re titillating me now!

And no instagram account lol

[Red Badger]

Why the boots?
Is she foot shamed?..................

[Wuli]

He stayed for the personal “climate change” photo ops amid all the destruction.

I wished him no harm and still do not, yet I consider him a fraud.

[Ciexyz]

I feel sad for the innocent animals. Branson lives in a hurricane zone. He should have provided better shelter in advance, underground, and had a game warden who could round up the flamingos, otherwise don’t have the animals at all.

[pgkdan]

Who cares about how billionaire Richard Branson weathered the storm? Big deal.

[Red Badger]

Not necessarily a fraud, just ignorant and brainwashed by all his liberal acquaintances.

Or maybe Carly Simon had his number back in ‘72................

[Tallguy]

Reminds me of the article a while back about the super-wealthy building hidey-holes to retreat to when riding out the troubled times when the SHTF.

Branson is refering to a “reinforced wine cellar”. I bet Necker Island is his retreat and that is a whole lot more than a wine cellar.

[Ronald_Magnus]

I'd be interested to see how his solar panel set-up fared. Hosted on Fotki

[Ciexyz]

This is one of the world’s oligarchs, trying to tell us how to live our lives and lecturing us on climate change. Idiot.

[Red Badger]

Probably on the bottom of the ocean....................