The Rubble And Recovery Of U.S. Virgin Islands: 'Will We Survive The Aftermath?'
As Irma batters Florida, the storm's earliest American victims fear they will be forgotten by the mainland. Largely reduced to wreckage, the U.S. territory is now struggling to pick up the pieces.
As Hurricane Irma brings its might to bear on the west coast of Florida, there's one thing that should not be buried by the immense storm's winds: all the wreckage those winds have made of the Caribbean. From Antigua to Cuba, the string of small islands so often considered tourist paradises endured the hellish brunt of a Category 5 hurricane.
Smack in the center of that path were the U.S. Virgin Islands, a territory torn apart with the storm's arrival Wednesday. Now, days later, many on the islands
