Originally Posted By: Montanero
Yes, disasters do damage, and sometimes it is catastrophic. However, what astonishes me is not how fragile civilization is, but how resilient.


Resilient - now more due to modern technology, modern machinery, readily available transportation (ship, rail, aircraft) specialized SAR / recovery teams, various .gov, military, NGO resources and more.
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

John Lubbock