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  • In Irma-devastated US Virgin Islands, resolve blends with worry of being forgotten

    09/17/2017 11:38:11 PM PDT · by blueplum · 10 replies
    LA Times via MSN.com ^ | 17 Sept 2017 | Molly Hennessy-Fiske
    CORAL BAY, U.S. Virgin Islands — Sharon Coldren, standing on the balcony of the Coral Bay Community Council building, raised a megaphone to give a warning to about 100 of her fellow islanders. "There are tropical storms on the way that could become hurricanes," she said to a crowd gathered Saturday outside the town hall. Evacuate, she said. Their last chance to leave their island of St. John would probably be a free ferry the next day to San Juan, Puerto Rico... Coldren couldn't give them any information about the latest marine weather forecasts — emergency managers were not providing...