“It’s absolutely horrific,” said Sarah Thompson, a 38-year-old lawyer and resident of Tortola, the largest of the British Virgin Islands (BVI). “The island is not fit to live on. Communications were down across much of the BVI from Wednesday and there is now some patchy phone and internet function. People on the ground are starting to panic, and I can hear it in my husband’s voice,” said Thompson. Houses are not secure and there is raw sewage, rubbish and rotting food and there are rats and birds going into the houses,” said Thompson.

Source: The Guardian September 11, 2017 21:12 UTC