April 2013
| Business World Magazine | 267
Hurricane Season will officially begin on the first of June and forecasters antici-
pate that this year will yield an above average array of storm events. Of course,
residents and businesses of coastal communities are accustomed to annually pre-
paring for suchweather phenomenon by stocking-up on supplies and developing
strategies to mitigate potential impact, but even the most organized can often
be caught off guard by unforeseen occurrences. The Philosopher Epictetus once
observed that the most skillful sailors do not gain their reputation by navigating
among silent seas, but rather through storms and tempests of life. Validation of
that very point can be found in the Virgin Islands where one company’s recog-
