I'm sure everyone who lived through it has unbelieveable stories. We were on a cruise that week that HAD been scheduled to visit SXM and STT. Although communication then certainly was nothing like it is now, we knew a little of what was happening to our beloved SXM at the time. Our ship went to the western Caribbean instead, which was so dead flat calm, it was astounding. We surmised that the monster Luis had taken all the energy out of the ocean.

Our first trip back to SXM after Luis was in February 96, when we stayed at L'hoste and were astounded at the wide destruction still evident at that time.