In October 2017, after Hurricane Maria devastated Dominica, residents in Roseau queued for hours either to buy food or to board a vessel leaving the island. Caribbean Media Corporation reporting recorded people waiting and a woman moving to the front to ask why the line had stalled. The queues show how, after disaster, the order for obtaining food and the order for securing transport can become urgent at the same time. This is a specific 2017 record, not a description of current conditions.