We are supposed to leave tomorrow to start our 1 week vacation in St. Martin. We are staying in a villa up a hill in Terres Basses. I look at the "models" and see path and intensity projections and think it won't be too severe. But what I don't know is how devastating this size/category of hurricane will be on St. Martin or it's infrastructure.

We bought the wrong type of insurance to just back out. They'll pay for trip interruption or extra money if we need to make travel changes due to hurricane, but they won't reimburse us if we decide to back out because a hurricane is headed that way.No amount of money is worth making a decision that is too risky.

Do any locals or past visitors have a perspective on the risk to staying in St. Martin the next week (Aug 22-29)? Anyone else going? What is the general feeling on the island regarding the danger of this hurricane? Is the area we are staying in any more or less susceptible to danger during or after Danny pays a visit?