1) Barbuda's 1,600 inhabitants were forced to abandon the island after Hurricane Irma hit: It's not an overstatement to say that Hurricane Irma annihilated Barbuda, the Caribbean island with 1,600 inhabitants that forms a country along with Antigua southeast of Puerto Rico. (vox.com)
This prompted people living on an island above Alaska's north coast in August to vote to abandon their island home. (sciencenewsforstudents.org)
At the same time, the film's plot — which essentially abandons the island setting completely for something vastly different — seems just a little too strange. (slashfilm.com)