Look at this pic...the tiny dot in the eye is (was?) Wake Island.
http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=54974
What a magnificent storm! If someone really did stay behind, I'd have to say he drowned. There had to be 30-50 feet of water over the island when the eyewall hit.
Uh oh....this is gonna cost some big money .....got to have this up and going.....