Sentences with phrase «n't get to the island»

Many travelers with vacation rentals lost thousands of their vacation dollars because they simply couldn't get to the island.

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«I recall a time they weren't able to get the boat out here for two months,» Keith Ahsoon, a Ta'u resident whose family owns one of the food stores on the island, wrote in the SolarCity blog post.

The idea [at SuperShe island] is, hey, focus on yourself — don't try to get your hormones up.»

That's because while declaring bankruptcy would help the sunny Caribbean island restructure and reduce its $ 72 billion debt load, it wouldn't help Puerto Rico slim down its costly government operations in order to avoid getting in trouble again.

The castaways never got off the island because they didn't have a good reason to do so.

Ginger, Mary Ann and the Howells didn't have the skills or experience to get the castaways off the island but they could motivate the professor and skipper.

«With 90 percent of cell towers on the island out of service, people can't get in touch with their loved ones — and it's harder for rescue workers to coordinate relief efforts.

Those who can't get to Rhode Island fast enough can take comfort in some of Oreo's other flavor ventures.

Communications to and from Puerto Rico are strained (cell service has been all but wiped out on the island; even the governor couldn't get through to his parents as of Thursday), but the situation on the ground sounds very grim.

This is usually less expensive than the investment option, but you don't get any equity in a local development, and you'd have to buy a home if you wanted to live on the island.

Although Musk's idea doesn't solve Puerto Rico's current crisis — 90 % of the island is still without power, and many are having trouble getting clean water — it could set the island on the path to sustainable, renewable energy, which could reduce its dependence on imported fossil fuels and ultimately bolster its economy.

«The planes that we have in Puerto Rico — it's not news today that they are the oldest planes on inventory» among all National Guard planes nationwide, and they often face delays in getting spare parts shipped to the island, he said.

This had the effect of creating the «GTA Island», and like Manhattan in New York City, if you can't afford to buy there, you will commute one to two hours to get to there.

If there were, I'd bet he'd sound more like GOOFY from Disney... and act more like Gilligan since he seems to want to give people cancer, let them lose their homes, get mugged, killed, etcetera... and not get their dreams (of getting off the island for example).

If they have never been anywhere else but the island and women have not been there for 1000 years then it is safe to assume they are getting each other pregnant prison style otherwise 1 of those statements is not true....

just because some dude went off to some island on vacation and got high as a kite and ate some bad food, then decided to be a «creative writer», doesn't mean it has extra value.

«We have products that we get a lot of kudos for from visitors to the island, [but] they're not strong enough yet to go on the international scene.»

I haven't lived on the island for a decade now (yikes I'm getting old) so my knowledge of new businesses is limited to summer visits.

Looks fabulous... sorry I haven't been around for awhile, I moved to the US Virgin Islands (I still giggle when I say that) for six months, and it is taking awhile to get settled.

But I am from the island and we have a rather large expat community living here, so that may well be where my mom got to taste that back in the 80's; however, we didn't have all these yummy variations.

We were on our way to Fire Island, but had some time to kill before the ferry came, so we stopped in town to get some coffee (for us) and some treats (for the kids) and when I spotted the gourmet store next to it, I couldn't resist.

I'll be out of a kitchen for a bit of time while the floors get replaced in between my stove and kitchen island, and we might have to move out for a few days when the floors are ready to be refinished, but that won't be for a while.

Rottnest Island's main resort will get more top - end rooms and will almost double in size under a $ 40 million expansion to help draw more visitors, but the WA Government says it won't just be «an exclusive little enclave».

I have a date palm in my garden here in Cyprus (Eastern Mediterranean Island) and this year have got so many fresh dates changing colour from yellow to brown every day I didn't know what to do with them all..............

Of course youcould do far worse things in north Vallejo in the 1990s, especially in theSabathias» neighborhood, known as the Crest, where you could cruise up GatewayDrive to get drugs, and bleary - eyed men banged on the windows of passing cars.But Mare Island hadn't yet been shut down, and the Crest felt more hardworkingthan crime - ridden because the men hadn't gone away.

I live on a paradise island, Sun sea & sand and I don't need to get up for work!

With Stanley not only did I actually get to see him out on an island blocking edge rushers one - on - one in every game, I also saw him lock those guys down game after game after game.

He is barred because the government feels he doesn't have sufficient ties to a tiny island nation he never stepped foot in and its obvious he is just trying to get out of paying taxes.

«Adults, me included, can't seem to stop talking about this, and it's crucial to get kids away from it,» said Steven Cope, a psychotherapist who on Saturday coached his seven - year - old son, Dylan, in an American Youth Soccer Organization game at Wards Island under the Triboro Bridge.

Some gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summertime; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snowshoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles.

One thing I couldn't get my head around was actually getting to the Island airport.

If you're looking for a nice spot to get away in Florida that isn't too crazy, Marco Island is where it's at.

I feel that we didn't get to «see» much of the Big Island due to the great traveling distance from this home base.

NDBN does not have an active member diaper bank program in Puerto Rico, therefore we are coordinating efforts with other relief organizations to get diapers and supplies to the island.

Veronica Tingzon: Exactly, the size of a — try to hold up even an eight pound baby for let's say 30 to 45 minutes, which is around the typical time frame that they will eat and hold that baby up with the pillows down at your waist, your boobs are not down at your waist, your breasts are up here, okay and so you have to just build this pillow nest, this pillow island around you and have lots of support for floating elbow, floating babies and don't be afraid to build that nest up so that you can get your baby really, really, really, really close to you and tummy to tummy and chest to chest so that's number one first and foremost.

The Challenge: Get Rowdy With the Rest of the Crowd The day before Mother's Day was a glorious day on Long Island; not knowing if the weather would hold up the next day, I decided it would be best to do the activities I wanted to do on my special day Saturday instead: go out to -LSB-...]

Encourage your child to come across the islands and not get his or her feet wet before they get there.

«I have spent my career working to root out corruption and I won't stop until Long Island taxpayers get the state government they deserve,» he said.

I haven't even got on to the fact that this small island beat Russia in the Olympics last year, or that the biggest - selling vodka brand in the world isn't Russian, it's British — Smirnoff — made in Fife.

Even today, people born in American Samoa (a significant territory with 55,000 + people) and Swains Island do not get U.S. citizenship at birth, only getting non-citizen U.S. nationality, because no act of Congress extended it to them.

Long, who has been among GOP gubernatorial designee Rick Lazio's staunchest allies and pushed hard for him to get the Conservative line (endangering his own standing with some party leaders in the process), said he has spoken to the former Long Island congressman and urged him not to run on the new, yet - unnamed line.

A Long Island Republican forwarded an email he received from Becker last night, in which the candidate said he doesn't intend to repeat his 2010 mistake of getting off to a «late start» in his effort to oust the «ultra-left» McCarthy, whom he deemed «one of the most radical and incompetent members of Congress.»

Housing developers in NYC contribute huge amounts to upstate and Long Island Republican lawmakers, who will ensure that their giant tax break doesn't get touched.

As Puerto Rico struggles in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, which left much of the island without power and 95 % of its cellular sites out of service, some members of Congress are working to address the crisis and are worried it isn't getting the attention it deserves.

Turkey / Greece land border is not as easy to get to as the seaside towns in Turkey that are close to the Greek islands.

Asked who he thought might get into the race on the Democratic side, New York Rep. Charles B. Rangel couldn't offer a guess, saying, «Long Island is like Europe to me... It's almost like the Senate to the House, you know.

ALBANY — Long Island clergy on Tuesday resumed their push to get the Senate's Republican majority to agree to «raise the age» so that 16 - and 17 - year - olds would not be tried for violent crimes as adults.

Morano, a Staten Island based radio talk show host and civic activist, said he was was «reluctant» to get involved with a new political party «but the opportunity to reform New York's arcane and absurd election laws wasn't something I could pass up.»

It should be noted that Silver reportedly is ready to get all the way on board with the governor's ethics reform proposal — even the part that would require him to fully disclose his client list at Weitz & Luxenberg, which is something that Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who is also of counsel (at the Long Island firm of Ruskin Moscou Faltischek), doesn't seem all that interested in doing.

Francesca Carlow is a scrupulously honest person who has lived in our district, raised her family, built a business and been a well known community leader for 30 years, a person who, while not a professional career politician, made the decision to get involved in public service with no goal other than to make long island and New York State a better place to live work and play.