The hurricane struck on September 6, first in Barbuda and nearby Antigua, before tracking north east so far as Cuba the best part of a thousand miles further west.
Such was Irma’s ferocity, wind speeds of up to 160mph were still being recorded more than three days later.
The effects though were none the worse felt than on Anguilla.
The island took the brunt of the category five winds, which lay siege to its most basic infrastructure and left islanders without power for months.
