St Maarten Airport webcam live

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Live view of St Maarten Airport hurricane Irma now a Cat 5 due to hit there, There are loads of live webcams if you click on the drop down box on the left


http://www.mahobeachcam.com/

Storm 10

Here is St Marteen as Irma hit the camera died after a few minutes just press play and turn up the sound, apparently the four biggest and strongest buildings on the Island have been destroyed so can you imagine what the Airport will be like, Please God they are all safe.

http://www.mahobeachcam.com/

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Amazing footage, looks genuinely scary, as opposed to just daily mail scary.

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Over on the weather boards there is some great video and pictures, Airport looks bad in some of the pictures

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https://twitter.com/RMA_Ins/status/905461348896821248/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boards.ie%2Fvbulletin%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D2057783238%26page%3D10


4th photo in these, the airport looks to be in bits!

tricky D

It's not St Marteen in the 4th photo so there's some hope. Comments further down the page say it is lifted from Mexico 3 years ago: http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-mexico-cabo-storm-20141014-story.html

Sadly this type of disaster pseudo band-wagoning is becoming more common with natural disasters.

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Ah great it was a fake

Watching the webcam footage from earlier I would still say there's some damage, should see some photos too hopefully as the winds have decreased.

CaptainSkidmark

One of my Colleagues here in Russia lives there, he was supposed to fly home yesterday but has extended his rotation by a week as there is no way for him to get home at the moment. His house luckily is fine bar one broken window but many of his friends have lost their houses and have has their business ruined.

Mebuntu

There are several aerial shots from different angles of the airport damage included in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkSNWkgkH4Q

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Mebuntu wrote: »

There are several aerial shots from different angles of the airport damage included in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkSNWkgkH4Q

Terrible damage done there will they ever get back to normal and two new storms on the same track, wonder where the ship sheltered during the storm it cant have been nice for the crew.

Tzardine

Mebuntu wrote: »

There are several aerial shots from different angles of the airport damage included in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkSNWkgkH4Q

It is a terrible event and people have lost lives.

But having seen that video from the airport I actually expected more damage. A lot of smaller structures are still standing.

Not trolling or looking to flame. Just my initial opinion watching the video.

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Tzardine wrote: »

It is a terrible event and people have lost lives.

But having seen that video from the airport I actually expected more damage. A lot of smaller structures are still standing.

Not trolling or looking to flame. Just my initial opinion watching the video.

The Dutch defence ministry said: "The picture is of many uprooted trees, houses without roofs and pleasure boats on land."
The Dutch navy has sent two ships from nearby Aruba and Curacao to assist locals but they have had trouble docking, according to media in the Netherlands.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said: "The island is not reachable at this point because of the huge damage to the airport and the harbour."

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/~/article-4858858/index.html

Normally wouldn't post daily mail links, but the airport has sustained quite a bit of damage, both internally and externally. The roof looks to be in a poor state too.

CaptainSkidmark

The airport wont be open until October, the lad in work is trying to get home but no luck getting a boat yet.