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Article snippet: CODRINGTON, Antigua and Barbuda — Paul De Windt abandoned his home and holed up in his office with his family and pet cat on the island of St. Martin to wait out the fury of Hurricane Irma. Days later, his house is uninhabitable, at least 10 people have died on the island, water and power have been knocked out, and half of the homes have lost their roofs. But instead of thinking about the long and painful recovery to come, Mr. De Windt was still in his office on Friday, bracing for yet another catastrophe: the next major hurricane was already on its way. “We are surviving, but we aren’t recovering by any means,” Mr. De Windt, the publisher of The Daily Herald, a newspaper on St. Martin. “We are just waiting for Jose.” At least 20 people died when Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful storms to ever lash the Atlantic, battered the Caribbean this week, obliterating houses and leaving thousands of people homeless with its terrifying winds. But the region had barely taken stock of its losses before another huge storm threatened to slam into the very islands that had been hit the hardest. On Friday, Hurricane Jose, a powerful storm barreling across the Atlantic in Irma’s wake, was upgraded to a Category 4, bringing with it winds up to 150 miles per hour. On Barbuda, along the eastern-most edge of the Caribbean, the authorities were evacuating the entire population of 1,600 people to the sister island of Antigua before the next hurricane struck. Irma had already “co... Link to the full article to read more