> I mentioned to Paul, offlist, that the national news hasn't covered
> the migrant workers and really poor folks who've been hit hard in
> PUnta Gorda and Central, FL --which is where the food is mainly grown.
Not to speak of Grenada, where I heard or half-heard something on the news the other day about 90% of the buildings being destroyed.
What do people on Caribbean islands do about earthquakes? I would think that they can't evacuate, the way U.S.-ers in the hurricane area do. I guess they just hunker down and wait for them to blow over. But then they have had centuries of experience dealing with them.
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________________ Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. -- Attr. to Alfonso the Wise, King of Castile