Times of the Islands Spring 2023

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waterholes all about, even in the Pineyard. Creek Mouth
and other entrances from the sea were a lot deeper after
the hurricane. It was like a natural dredging.”
Hope James-Hamilton was 10 years old when
Hurricane Donna hit the Islands, but she remembers the
event like it was yesterday. She recalls, “When we first
heard the hurricane was coming, it was kind of exciting.
Everyone was baking bread, frying fish, washing and
packing away clothes to get ready. My daddy (the late
Charles Hubert James), the late Raymond Gardiner, and
the other men were checking the barometer and watching
the creek. When he saw the creek was dry, my daddy said
we had to go to the shelter. But mummy didn’t want to
go! I remember he pulled me through the last open window
in the house, which was closed up, and tied me to
a tree so I wouldn’t blow away while he tried to convince
mummy to leave.” The family made it to the shelter at
the school, where Hope honors the “brave, strong men”
who held the iron door shut against the winds while others
went to a nearby shack and cooked rice in a big pot.
The men then crawled between the shed and the shelter
clutching handfuls of rice for the people to eat as they
rode out the storm.
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