NOT AS BAD AS...
The comparative manner in which people are describing the season's initial hurricane is not the best way to start off the season along the Gulf Coast. To simply put it all aside by saying it was "not as bad a previous one" is not the best way to go.
It depends on a large extent on who got hit! I have heard a beginning figure quoted which puts damage from "Dennis" at "around one billion." Excess water was still standing in the streets at that time and few people had ?not returned to their coastal property, so we had yet another case of estimates from afar according to what someone saw in TV. It is impossible to estimate the costs of such natural disasters. much of the "damage" inflicted upon residents this time were tissue temporarily covering wounds from last year's major hurricanes. For various reasons many sites have not yet been restored. Some beach front structures were simply too far gone to merit salvage; others were what might be called "Junior" portions of "Senior" losses and owners had not, as yet,had either time or money to get their property cleaned up as yet. Some suc unfinished clean-up job from last year were ready and waiting for "Dennis" to strip them apart again because of governmental red tape which had delayed relief funds. You may have noticed how frequently FEMA personnel or pushers worked themselves into conversatoions concerning how to get ready to face "Dennis" -the worst one yet!"
That which has long been our prime example on survival under intense, repeated danger was echoed this week when we saw English men and women at Underground stations and in the the streets facing Terrorist's bombs. Perhaps you noticed their intense observance of authority; the common needs of all, and the necessity for teamwork - thinking and acting in unified groups.
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We learn as we are living out such moments. The very doing of it enables us, with experience, to get better at it, too.
? Teamwork - with someone, knowingly or not, also demands hate. We must know what we dislike. We must know how to hate and distrust those elements in the social mix which might lead us away from our goals. Teams, working together in many ways, do far better at that maneuver than individuals.
With whom are you currently working?
A.L.M. July 11, 2005 [c406wds]
