125mph winds left a path of destruction in Anguilla. Some 500 houses were destroyed leading to over 1000 persons being left homeless, the hurricane wiped out the island’s entire merchant fleet. Following the hurricane, locals had to depend heavily for several weeks on relief supplies of clothing, food and medicine from other countries. The country took several years to recover from the hurricane, but it led to a revolution in building technology in the island with many of the board structures being replaced by concrete structures