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April 1, 2010
"What can't break is trust."
Cobb hits it out of the park in: Gary, Jerry, Belinda and Faye - CobbI had just watched Die Hard 4 and remember the line that it took FEMA four days to get water to the Superdome. In fact, Home Depot had water there sooner, and food, and clothes. For my predicament, Chase had my money, CVS had my gas and four hustling people from Ohio had my back. As Jason Statham said, transportation is a precise business. It takes a lot to get my ass from LA to Cleveland and back in one piece. That includes the pilots, the girl who served up my crabcakes, the flight attendant who poured my Jack & Coke, the programmer who let me buy my ticket online. I do and I don't take it for granted. I know all things work together for good, most of the time. But at any moment things will break.
Posted by Vanderleun at April 1, 2010 1:20 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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What can't break is trust.
What also is amazing is when the connections break is how fast we repair them.
I recall when a tornado/bad windstorm went through Camp Dearborn, and how fast people came out with ladders and saws and tools and tarps, removing debris, covering damaged trailer roofs (the Camp is a summer resort and park and campground) and cutting up and moving downed limbs and trees.
Electricty was out, it was dark, but cars and trucks provided light, people with car-lighter plug-in spotlights providing light so others could fire up chainsaws and remove debris.
They did not need to be told, they just did. Group upon group going place to place to help each other. It was something wonderful. Something that I think our so-called 'betters' do not understand when they posit their 'total breakdown of society' theories. Societies pull together under threat, under disaster. When things fall apart it means there never was a society in that place to begin with.
The USA has a society, in most locations, and it pulls together. Where society dissolves in the USA, under stress, well, I guess I would say look at the society that was present before the stress was applied.
Posted by: Mikey NTH at April 3, 2010 12:14 PM