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Thank-you, that was exactly my point. Illustrated beautifully. Aside from Allen making landfall in 1980 (39 years ago), every single one has missed. And this is almost always the case with Barbados.
Incidentally, by just presenting a link with no comment that says "list of Barbados hurricanes", you are implying something other than what is shown inside your link. It seems you are being snarky and contrarian, but I may be wrong. It certainly wasn't a sincere attempt at imparting knowledge. Your list includes hurricanes that passed by but weren't felt on Barbados, as well as tropical storms that later became hurricanes when they were well past Barbados, so the title is exceptionally misleading. This is a forum for people interested in the medical sciences so we can be a little more stringent with the sources and the way we present data, can we not?
It's not a controversial point. Barbados lies in an area that is not even the Caribbean sea technically, and they don't tend to get hurricanes. St Maarten, in contrast, gets them much more often.
However, having survived three Caribbean hurricanes myself, I am not necessarily saying it's a problem enough to scare anyone off St Maarten, but I was here in the Caribbean when Irma hit and St Maarten suffered a lot. We all still feel the fear. In speaking with Ross faculty, who themselves were seriously traumatized by Maria (which they experienced on Dominica), the fact that they now live on an island that almost never gets hurricanes IS i huge deal for them. If you did not live through Irma and Maria you may not understand why this is an important point of consideration in some people's eyes.
