that is the impression that we have got since we came here a couple of days ago. most of the people were ready who shelter in their houses, trying to make themselves as safe as possible and stocking up on food, water. especially on petrol because we know that in cases like hurricanes, petrol outage is a possibility. but we think we have experienced that the bahamians were ready for them. and we have spoken with a official from the emergency management agency just late last night. and they told us that they were still assessing the damage throughout the archipelago. but there were no casualty reports of any in the bahamas, michael. >> all right, stefano pozzebon, thank you so much in nassau. let's talk a little bit more. stefano mentioned about barbuda. it was badly hit. barely habitable we're told after irma really crushed the island. it was a category 5 hurricane when it hit there on wednesday.