(September 29, 2017 at 9:00 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(September 29, 2017 at 4:40 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: The lesson from the hurricanes is that if you live on an island you are on your own when the storms pay a visit. Given the condition of Puerto Rico the thinking is that a large percentage of the people will simply leave and move to Florida and New York. There's no real reason for the people to stay there now.
Oddly enough, the Dutch and the French didn't seem to have any issues delivering help to St Martin in the wake of Irma, which wrecked that island.
Perhaps governmental commitment plays a role?
I sent the engineering officers of a ship that gave aide to UK owned islands in the hurricane zone, its still there.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
