The year 2017 will be remembered across the entire Virgin Islands as the year of “IRMARIA”.  On September 7, 2017, the islands of St John and St Thomas were decimated by Hurricane Irma, with winds in excess of 200 miles per hour, countless tornadoes, and devastating damage across the islands impacting all infrastructure.  Less than two weeks later Hurricane Maria ravaged St Croix and Puerto Rico, while delivering a second whallop to St John and St Thomas.  

Ironically, just two weeks before Irma tore apart St John, wrecking virtually every boat which had sought shelter in Hurricane Hole, the Summers End Group submitted new plans to the Army Corps, including a major REDUCTION in the engineered wind speed design strength of the marina structures.

The new submission from SEG to the Army Corps was intended to address the removal of the two parcels which had been sold in early 2016.  A major change such as this should have been submitted concurrently to DPNR for review by the St John CZM Committee, but Summers End apparently decided not to do that, since nothing was submitted for local CZM review.