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surprise_i'm_armed wrote: ↑Mon Jun 05, 2023 5:23 pm Consider the difference in 2 different countries where natural disasters have struck:

Haiti - Earthquake ruins everything, in a country that has always been a basket case. Years later, it's still a basket case. The people don't know which way is up, as far as governing themselves, and building back. I used to work with 2 Haitians who moved to the states. One told me that the German government had gifted the country with a brand new, fully equipped ambulance. The First Lady of Haiti commandeered it for her personal use, so that her driver could drive her around on shopping sprees and personal errands.

Japan - Tsunami causes horrible damage to large areas, as well as damaging the nuclear power site. Years later, the industrious, hardworking Japanese people have cleaned up the mess, and are getting back to normal. Personal property that people find goes to a central lost and found, where people can retrieve their items. They were presented with serious problems, and put their noses to the grindstone to better their situation.

SIA

yep night and day

we were supposed to pull in there for a port call back in 90 something, we had just left antigua you know making friends

our captain came on the speaker and told us he was not going to put our crew into such a crazy as a bat dangerous area to please some body in DC
so we went to PR to do "repairs" that suddenly came up

that place has always been a stable of nothing good or safe