Thanks everyone for your thoughts! Everyone in my family is safe and are not in areas affected, but as we all know, these sort of disasters eventaully affect everyone in the community. The last 3 months have not been very good for the globe, it seems.

Xander - Antigua has been spared, thankfully...so if the excursion is running, definitely take it...however, as I explained earlier, there really is only one major highway in/out of the area and it has been severely damaged...I'm sure they will get it back and running quickly, but you are visitng a scant month after the catastrope...so I would keep that in mind. Antigua is well worth the visit, so hopefully you can go.