Irma reduces St. John, a once-lush gem in the U.S. Virgin Islands, to a wasteland

The Asolare restaurant is gone, practically blown off its cliff, along with its world-famous carrot ginger soup. The facade of Margarita Phil's is a junkyard of yellow and vermilion planks. Multimillion-dollar homes and aluminum huts alike lay in ruins. On the island of St. John, that was only...