The 2017 hurricane season left deep scars across the Caribbean basin's social and ecological landscapes, after two powerful Category 5 storms, Hurricanes Irma and Maria, swept across the region in a span of less than two weeks. The hurricanes led to significant loss of life and left a trail of destruction across much of the Caribbean, with total damages estimated to be at least $120 billion (Wilkinson et al. 2018, 2). An assessment by the United Nations Development Program summarized the impacts: Thousands were made homeless, and key infrastructure for transportation, water, health, tourism, and education were devastated. Between 70 and 95 percent of houses were damaged in Anguilla, the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands, BVI, Barbuda and Dominica. The anomaly of two catastrophic