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09-16-2017, 07:54 AM
After Irma, Barbuda's 300-year-old civilization 'extinguished'
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Ambassador Ronald Sanders (http://www.sirronaldsanders.com/), the island nation of Antigua and Barbuda's ambassador to the United States, delivered a chilling report on the status of his country in the wake of Hurricane Irma.
"The damage is complete," Sanders told PRI's The Takeaway (https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-09-13/barbuda-needs-worlds-help-right-now). "For the first time in 300 years, there’s not a single living person on the island of Barbuda — a civilization that has existed on that island for over 300 years has now been extinguished."
SEE ALSO: Jaw-dropping satellite images show historic Hurricane Irma swallowing Caribbean islands (http://mashable.com/2017/09/06/frightening-satellite-images-historic-irma-swallows-caribbean-islands/)
Hurricane Irma hit Barbuda on September 6 as a category 5 tropical cyclone. The 400 mile-across storm entirely swallowed the 62 square mile island, and laid waste to 95 percent of the island's structures (http://mashable.com/2017/09/07/barbuda-hit-by-irma/).* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/09/15/barbuda-civilization-destroyed/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Ambassador Ronald Sanders (http://www.sirronaldsanders.com/), the island nation of Antigua and Barbuda's ambassador to the United States, delivered a chilling report on the status of his country in the wake of Hurricane Irma.
"The damage is complete," Sanders told PRI's The Takeaway (https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-09-13/barbuda-needs-worlds-help-right-now). "For the first time in 300 years, there’s not a single living person on the island of Barbuda — a civilization that has existed on that island for over 300 years has now been extinguished."
SEE ALSO: Jaw-dropping satellite images show historic Hurricane Irma swallowing Caribbean islands (http://mashable.com/2017/09/06/frightening-satellite-images-historic-irma-swallows-caribbean-islands/)
Hurricane Irma hit Barbuda on September 6 as a category 5 tropical cyclone. The 400 mile-across storm entirely swallowed the 62 square mile island, and laid waste to 95 percent of the island's structures (http://mashable.com/2017/09/07/barbuda-hit-by-irma/).* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/09/15/barbuda-civilization-destroyed/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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