At the southwestern edge of the Caribbean side, is an area known as Smoke Alley. Along side it, with a beautiful view of Saba and the terminal was a gray-black sand beach that stretched nearly to the end of the stone wall ahead. It's all gone. No more beach. Worse, the waves of the storm who shall not be mentioned, set up a stone wall break about 20 yards offshore. The result? Sand will not easily return to this, the only real beach on Statia. It is very sad, and very difficult to gain access for swimming. Easy come, easy go. In Florida, I suspect they'd be ordering up a $million dredging operation to put sand back on the beach. Pipe dream here.
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. 
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