Have to mention - did they loot & shoot? No found & shared! Did they wail & shout? No got on with it! Biggest typhoon ever & facing chaos they remain dignified! I know there will be elements of bad behaviour but my thoughts have to go out to them & congratulations to the press for not focusing on this bad bit of humanity!
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Dear Westi, very well said, i can't even start to imagine how you would move forward from a disaster of that scale.
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.
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I notice the press and TV got there early. Pity they hadn't left these people behind, and flown in supply's instead. 
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Most of the press and reporters where there early because a catastrophe was anticipated, against which few people had any defence regardless of the warning. They subsist in tents and a billy can along with everyone else, and quite often they arrive along with relief shipments. It is because the scale of the devastation following these catastrophes is reported in good time that a greater relief effort can be organised. And they can re-unite missing people, viz. Alex Thomson on last night's Channel 4 News.
Allotment, but little achieved.