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In reply to the discussion: What if a real disaster happens? [View all]littlemissmartypants
(22,647 posts)Where I live we're still mucking out houses, trying to find hotels rooms to rent, get keys to FEMA trailers, find reputable roofers to replace tarps with shingles, get coats for children, furniture for houses, food for families, trees cut up and hauled out and miles of ruined household debris picked up off the roadside. Just to name a few things.
There are over 500 abandoned cats who need rehoming and food in my county.
That kind of disaster?
And if you have time look up Robeson county, NC. It's even worse there. Huge swaths of housing have been abandoned. Truly, I can't think of a place that hasn't been hit and isn't suffering from their own special hell.
One affluent neighborhood lost everyhouse and every neighbor but one and they've been trying to keep it a secret that they've All moved out and aren't coming back. They're lucky. They have money. But they were still hit hard having just recovered from Floyd, not too long ago. I guess the sight of dead bloated hogs and hundreds of drowned chickens, floating down the street in your multimillion dollar neighborhood twice in less than twenty years is a tipping point.
I could go on but I don't want you to think there aren't others worse off, because there certainly are and they will be living their disasters for years to come.