The relentless winds and torrential downpour that tore through Florida and the Caribbean this month have left thousands of lives in devastation.
But amidst the Hurricane Irma horror stories flooding the media, the story of Kate Jackson and her fiancé, Alex Ashman, is a refreshing ray of God’s light in the storm.
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Irma left the residents of the British Virgin Islands fearing for their lives like never before, but for Kate and Alex, their panic was three-fold with 6-month-old triplets in their care.
Preparing for the worst, the couple sought shelter with their baby girls, Beatrice, Isabella and Charlotte in Kate’s mom’s house on the island of Tortola.
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Though the biggest of the British Virgin Islands, Tortola was still no match for the raging power of Irma.
The family was crammed into a small bathroom with relatives and friends when the roof ripped clean off the house. As the foundation crumbled around them and the bathroom walls began to cave, panic rose exponentially.
“Our house was a gauntlet of destruction,” said family friend Nick Cunha of the terrifying experience. “First a balcony went, then the kitchen. We ended up in the only remaining room, a recently constructed bathroom.”
The group cowered in the shower, hovering over the babies while the unforgiving storm destroyed everything around them.