A long-time family friend is begging for help right now. Her daughter and son-in-law are on St Maarten, they were there for their honeymoon. Their hotel didn’t survive the storm, but they did. Now they’re trying to get out before hurricane Jose hits on Saturday, but there are no flights to be had, and the marina was destroyed. She is willing to pay to get them out.
Can anybody help?
IA big fear of mine is people will wait until the last minute..roads will be clogged up and people running of gas...they will be in the open on the roads
thats is going to happen once they wake up tomorrow and see the size
the recon plane just took off..going to be a very interesting night I think
Oh No! Is that the couple who were on TV, huddled in the bathroom of the hotel room and on their honeymoon? How in the world will they get out? Much Prayers!
I am concerned about my sister in Miami with my nephew. He is basically on life support at home. Mandatory Evac..I am praying she doesnt argue with it and try to stay. No one has heard from her at all on this.
St. Maarten is just outside the cone for Jose, and is under a Tropical Storm watch at this point, not a hurricane watch, and would be on the weaker, southern side of Jose if the current track holds. San Juan, PR was on the southern side of IRMA and came through OK.
They need to find shelter even if they locate someone to get them out.
Ellandra,
they should be ok with Jose. If they survived a direct hit from Irma they should be able to survive a peripheral blow from weaker Jose.
To bug out they need to go to the airport and request a change of departure flight to what ever is available to where ever, whenever. But I wouldn’t play that game until after Jose has passed. The airport likely won’t be open until after Jose anyway. So they should find a strong place with water and elevation to ride it out. Then get back on track with departure.
Just like marriage, they need to be flexible and compromise.
Which resort? We vacation in St. Maarten and are just sick about it.
Tell your long-time family friend to relax. It’s their honeymoon! This will be a honeymoon they will always remember.
Bump.
Ellandra,
NautiNurse alerted me to this. I’m a retired Army National Guard Officer in Puerto Rico. I’ll ask my contacts there to let me know about the situation in SXM. As of now we know that the Princess Juliana Airport is heavily damaged and that the French and Dutch armed forces have opcon there. I believe they are evacuating French and Dutch nationals to Curacao first. Americans need to contact the State Department.
Again, I’ll ask around to see if any private charters are being allowed in there yet.