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Irma Aftermath: Tourists Report Looters With Guns and Machetes Stealing From Hotels
by Gary Leff on September 10, 2017

It’s incredible to stop and think about how vulnerable we are when we travel, in an unfamiliar place and where travel provider employees have greater local knowledge and access than we do. That’s why it’s especially unsettling for me to read about the room service staffer at the Long Island Marriott who was arrested for stealing $43,000 in jewelry from a guest room.

Plenty of people have access to your room, when you’re there and when you aren’t. Instead of paying your hotel for extra security, you’re paying the hotel and you’re extra vulnerable. Shudder. I can’t say it surprises me though that this happened by the Nassau Coliseum.

Now add in desperation of a force majeure event and a total breakdown in law and order as appears to be happening on St. Maarten in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma and travel becomes scarier still.

More than 1200 American tourists were evacuated from the island and ” told stories about hiding in their hotel bathtubs fearing for their lives” as “a gang of men with “long swords” who reportedly showed up at a hotel.”

‘There are people on the streets armed with revolvers and machetes,’ one witness told the Dutch newspaper AD on Friday. ‘The situation is very serious. No one is in charge.’

…Witnesses on the Dutch side of the island say people are roaming the streets armed with ‘revolvers and machetes’ while Rutte said most people are surviving without power and running water.

Here’s a report from a staff member at Simpson Bay Resort.

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M. Antongiavann @jafine21
A small minority of sxm-er's were looting our unoccupied rooms until the Dutch military arrived. Not essentials - taking TV's #sxm #Irma
10:00 AM - Sep 9, 2017
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M. Antongiavann @jafine21
Also, a bank was robbed yesterday #sxm #stmaarten #sxmstrong
10:08 AM - Sep 9, 2017
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Here’s a New York National Air Guard C130 flight evacuating people from St. Maarten to San Juan, Puerto Rico.