Posted on 09/09/2017 1:48:21 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Sir Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of the Virgin Group who said he would ride out Hurricane Irma from his 74-acre private island in the Caribbean, has emerged from his fortified wine cellar unscathed.
"All of the team who stayed on Necker and Moskito during the hurricane are safe and well," Branson said in a blog post Thursday, which he explained was transcribed with a satellite phone after the storm brought down all lines of communication.
"We took shelter from the strongest hurricane ever inside the concrete cellar on Necker and very, very fortunately it held firm. Our thoughts go out to everyone affected by the disaster elsewhere in the [British Virgin Islands], Caribbean and beyond," he said.
Apocalyptic scenes of flattened buildings and ruined airports emerged from once-lush Caribbean islands devastated by Hurricane Irma, as the deadly storm began to lash vulnerable Haiti on Thursday and another powerful storm, Hurricane Jose, followed fast in its wake.
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Must be good stuff.
Did he see his shadow ?
Look at all the free publicity he’s getting with no danger to himself. That’s how he got rich.
Anybody here follow the British press to see how Great Britain is responding to this horror? You have to dig hard but it’s there. They have one measly naval ship slowly making its way while comments on the opinion pieces range from “how can we send our navy into such a terrible storm???” to “We can’t expect to pay for this!”
And those same papers and readers attack Mr. Trump each and every day.
So much for the country that gave us Capt. Cook & Bligh!
It was a good read until near the end their was some climate change virtue signaling . Just had to ruin a good story by injecting that scam into it.
I hope Little St James, owned by sexual preditor Epstein, was decimated, too, and that the kids were taken off the island.
It is my understanding that Pedophiles like Podesta, Bill Clinton and others get highs by torturing and even killing kids. You can hear Podesta torturing a child.
couldn’t finish. hell. it’s hell.
There’s just something majorly galling about a billionaire and his invited guests regarding a hurricane as some sort of amusement park ride, sitting on his private island in a concrete bunker, then emerging to bestow their sympathies upon all the hoi polloi devastated by the storm. I’ve said before, too bad life really isn’t like a 70’s disaster movie, he’d have been washed away screaming while all the innocent animals in his care left to fend for themselves would have been OK.
True, this wasn’t about survival. It was about having an adventure.
He could partially redeem himself by choppering off of his little Neverland island of misfit toys out into the real world to actually do something about the situation rather than offer meaningless talk. Sorry for the devastation? In proximity, able to go help? Go help. Don’t just sit there yammering platitudes.
Ports, Sherries and Madeiras -- Brits are fond of these.
and fortified wine sucks! But so does Brit food, and Brit gin
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