{"id":1705,"date":"2017-09-19T14:41:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T18:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/blog\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2019-04-25T12:00:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T16:00:21","slug":"hurricanes-in-guadeloupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/blog\/hurricanes-in-guadeloupe\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes in Guadeloupe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re coming up on our 4th anniversary here in Guadeloupe, and this is the first year that we&#8217;ve really been affected by a hurricane. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Tropical Storm Erica &#8211; which destroyed Dominica in 2015 &#8211; did nothing but chop the tops off some of our banana trees.<\/p>\n<p>2017 is another story: Hurricane Irma passed off the northeastern coast of Guadeloupe, and Hurricane Maria off the southern. 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