As a side comment, a couple of years ago I was in Martinique and rented a car to pick up friends at the airport there. This airport is quite big, much larger than SXM. When I got there the place was dark and the fire department had rigged up some Klieg lights which showed over 1000 people sitting around outside the dark terminal building. It turns out that the airport's emergency generating system had failed because most of the generators had "evaporated" and couldn't be found or run. All flights were diverted to Martinique until a daytime VFR approach could be attempted the next day.

Nobody seemed particularly surprised. The French attitude consisted of a shrug and a "c'est la vie".