Recalling the menace that was 'Maria'

Since graduating from Whitewater High School in 1970, Jeff Murdock has lived through military coups, has had malaria three times, was nearly shot after being accused of being a South African Military spy and was once thrown out of the country of Uzbekistan, but of all the tribulations he has faced in his lifetime, living through Hurricane Maria last September was perhaps the most harrowing.

Dominica — officially the Commonwealth of Dominica — is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea (southeast of Guadeloupe and northwest of Martinique.) The island was devastated by Hurricane Maria on S...