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摘要

International trips often take unplanned turns for the most disparate reasons, but a hurricane-induced change of schedule is out of the ordinary. This is what happened as The Banker visited the Dominican Republic in early September - the peak month of hurricane season. Luckily, the country suffered much less disruption from Hurricane Irma than other less fortunate countries elsewhere in the Caribbean; its most recent catastrophe occurred nearly two decades ago in 1998.