I will graduate in a few months from SGU. Hurricane Ivan hit Grenada about 2-3 weeks after I started my 1st term at SGU. Grenada is really close to Venezuela and so hurricanes usually miss it during the hurricane season. That hurricane in September of 2004 was the 1st to hit the island in 55 years. It completely demolished the island. The saying goes that "Ivan destroyed 95% of the island, and the 5% being SGU campus the facilities". None of the students were hurt and about 4 days later all the students were evacuated (no thanks to SGU and it's big shots) through an night sleeping on the floor in Barbados or Trinidad and Tobago back to USA or Canada. We finished that semester in Long Island NY although I believe the MPH students were given the option of coming back to the island early and study there. They slowly rebuilt the island and it will probably be another 50 years until they will be hit by another hurricane.
2nd semester and on we were back on Grenada. Besides the moldy luggage that we left behind, everything was usually working and live went back to the norm of SGU (studying, studying, drinking and then maybe a little studying...) Besides losing a few weeks here and there, we did not lose any major time and I will graduate on time.
