My strongest remembrance of that day was saying a small prayer of Thanks giving over my morning coffee that the storm was pretty much done, at least in St. Martin and the limited word we had from the Island was that our friends and ‘Island family’ had made it through the storm and were mostly okay. Early on there was much talk of incredible damage but I don’t think they yet had any idea of the actual magnitude of the damages, or that in all probability the worse might still be yet to come. Having recalled the recovery AFTER Luis and Lenny, we knew the people of SXM were strong, resourceful and resilient and they would persevere and we were ever so thankful that early reports of loss of life was minimal.