94,731 people have no place to live, have lost everything, this is almost beyond belief, but we tragically know it's true. My heart is breaking for them and all the others devastated by the killer storm.

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Only 3% lived on Barbuda.

Fixed it. Thanks.

They updated the population and it now says 0.

"97% of the population living on the island of Antigua" - Barbuda accounted for somewhere around 3,000 people, these people have lost all including the island where they lived.

I wonder how Antigua is doing since it's right there? I haven't heard anything specific about that island.

my best wishes to the people who lost not just their house but their home and way of life. having said that i hope they all choose to put down roots elsewhere, and wish them great success going forward.

... more and more places in the world will be abandoned. People might still move back to Barbuda, but only for a while. Eventually it, along with other low-lying islands and coastlines, will have to be abandoned. It's a taste of things to come.

I guess we just won't count the people who resided there for thousands of years prior to the arrival of Euros.

It may not have been inhabited. I don't have any specific info either way, but it's not a given that there was an indigenous population pre-contact.

Arawaks migrated there, and later Caribs, originally from South America.

The Caribs didn't form permanent settlements; they were seasonal visitors that harvested what grew in the waters and on the land.

The British did form permanent settlements. The Arawaks were also year-round dwellers. But between the two the island had no permanent inhabitants. That's all that's required for the claim to be true: That at some point in the 1600s there be no year-round settlements for several years. There's no claim about the 1500s CE or before.

I'm pretty sure the Taino, who were an Arawakan people, had permanent settlements there going back centuries if not millennia before being eradicated by the Euros.

with limited resources for traditional hunter gatherer societies. Africans and Euros may very well have been the first inhabitants

The sea provided immense bounty, of course, but the Arawaks were also quite proficient agriculturalists (not simply "hunter-gatherers&quot , raising maize, peanuts, tomato, squash, beans and even a type of sweet potato.

Not 94k.

Also, people lived there way longer than 300 years -- they were just murdered by the illegal Spanish immigrants.

That's exactly what those murdering rapists were!

Send the climate deniers to Barbuda for the next Cat 4+ there.

plants and wildlife will flourish on the island in the future.

Barbuda relies chiefly on tourism as the primary revenue source. They can't recover on their own without massive outside help to rebuild their infrastructure and housing so that they can attract resort and tourist investors who might consider new venue construction projects. This is years away for the people who lived there, but they still need jobs, food and housing, and everything else.

How many times will we rebuild down the Jersey shore? Parts of Long Beach Island have been decimated several times. Same with the Outer Banks and the low-lying Keys.

Not even counting the cost, which we all pay for through federal flood insurance (often to people WAY wealthier than the average American) it just may be smart to move back from the sea. Cause it will happen over and over.

Before this alleged "hurricane" supposedly devastated this so called "Barbuda".

before genocide came to their shores 300 years ago...