I'm just curious what your thoughts would be and how you would respond to what happened to Prattsville NY?
It’s a small village to my east, about 700 people and Irene literally erased it from the map. The entire village was almost totally destroyed. I spent a little time there and it was a nice little quaint village. Anderson Cooper did a piece on it last night. Just do a search for Prattsville online. I’m just wondering what you would do if your entire town was destroyed in one event. Your thoughts?
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I would move on.
I like where I live but am not that attached to my town.
Well, bottom line is after the dust settles I would grab a shovel, a hammer, and start the clean up and re-building process.
It could easily have been me and my little community, across the Hudson to the east. The hurricane veered west as it came up the coast and thus hit the Catskills and not the Berkshires.
We had lots of spotty damage that is easily repaired with time and some money, but no loss of life, or shelter (a few silly people build right on the creeks and did have porches and some rooms washed away).
I am too old to start afresh and would probably take Milo and head for the nearest ice floe or my daughter’s digs, after I had taken a deep breath.
Thanks guys. I’m just having a little trouble with the degree of destruction. I’ve never seen a place erased from the face of the earth like that. These houses aren’t damaged, they’re completely destroyed. They’re no longer even standing.
While my home town of Wichita Falls, Texas was quite a bit larger than 700 in 1979, the April 10th tornado of that year ripped a mile wide swath directly through one of the most populated areas of the city. Of the many things I learned from that experience and one of the most lasting is the resiliency of the human spirit. People were literally “picking up the pieces” and moving ahead within hours if not minutes of the event. Bottom line: what else is one to do?
Pitch a tent, set up camp and start to rebuild. I agree with @YoBob on the resiliency and selflessness of people helping people in need. The human spirit really shines at times of disasters.
What could you do, other than accept, and either move on or rebuild?
Don’t get me wrong, I have the greatest empathy for the situation, but, it is also another lesson in the fleeting nature of all things.
Entire civilizations have been wiped out by natural disasters over the centuries.
It happens, and goes to show that everything is temporary. ;-)
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