Most of the large beach bars on Orient are all owned by the same company....have been to all of them, a lot of the staff were directly from France and hence I would guess that a lot of them have returned to France....but having said that the time issue is a concern. Be assured if this had happened, and it has happened in the USA, that those properties would never be allowed to be built that close to the beach/water......again it is a case where this area will have a hurricane again, it is not like this is a one time thing, it will happen again...so how best to handle it and keeping in mind that they want to build in an area that is prone to disasters.