Three months after a hurricane devastated Barbuda few residents have returned
Gina Walker
âItâs almost like an out-of-body experience â said  Gina Walker  who returned in October . âYou wake up every morning and expect things to be back to normal and theyâre not.â
 Walker  had recently quit  her  job in New York as licensing manager for a music publisher  moving home with plans to build  her  dream house.  She  arrived a week before Irma hit.
 She  lives with an aunt now and spends most of  her  time cleaning other peopleâs homes and worrying about where to get water amid the rumble of generators and jackhammers.
âIt really takes a toll â  she  said. âIâm happy to do the work  but would be lying if I said that it wasnât really difficult at this point.â
âItâs almost like an out-of-body experience â said   [TGT]   who returned in October . âYou wake up every morning and expect things to be back to normal and theyâre not.â
 Walker  had recently quit  her  job in New York as licensing manager for a music publisher  moving home with plans to build  her  dream house.  She  arrived a week before Irma hit.
 She  lives with an aunt now and spends most of  her  time cleaning other peopleâs homes and worrying about where to get water amid the rumble of generators and jackhammers.
âIt really takes a toll â  she  said. âIâm happy to do the work  but would be lying if I said that it wasnât really difficult at this point.â