• Birdie@thelemmy.club
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    1 year ago

    In other news: see what happens after every devastating hurricane. Anyone else remember Katrina?

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      1 year ago

      I remember Andrew. The same thing happened. The U.S. Army eventually stepped in and made bi weekly supply deliveries in coordinaton with the National Guard. Back in those days the Red Cross was complete garbage.

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    1 year ago

    Much like with Katrina, Acapulco has been completely destroyed.

    Unlike Katrina, there’s absolutely zero support for the people of Acapulco. The Army or the Navy didn’t get there. There were no shelters. No food distribution, no local or state government.

    While the Red Cross was able to get there, the government is now saying they won’t let humanitarian relief get there, and only the army will help…of course, the army wasn’t even able to get the president to Acapulco, because the idiot decided to go by land…and hit stuck in mud.

    Homes in Acapulco are not insured, and the fund for disasters that the coincided to have to help in situations like this has been depleted.

    I don’t condone stealing…but there are no food supplies and people needed to get something. The looters that took TVs, and such…personally I thought it was stupid…and then I realized something: In a video someone yelled: “Walmart is insured…”. These people know they have lost it all, and they will never get it back. There ways of providing for their family are gone. As a human, I don’t blame them from wanting to get back something…I think it’s kind of dumb…but now I get why they did it. Walmart will get paid, but their life’s are ruined.