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I don't remember there being huge surges after Laura and whatever the one in october was, in 2020. I might be misremembering, but the primary issue was the incr

I don't remember there being huge surges after Laura and whatever the one in october was, in 2020. I might be misremembering, but the primary issue was the incredible heat, and lack of water, radio, power, ice, food, etc. In the coastal regions they suffered for weeks - we only had a rough go of it for 3 days where i'm at, and it hit us Cat 3, plus tornadoes.

dredmorbius 5y ago
Clearly it's a case of "we'll have to see". That said: - There's a clear risk. - Taking measures against the risk would be highly advisable. - Monitoring the aftereffects, over several months at least, is going to be necessary to draw conclusions. I'd also like to see a compilation of Covid (or other epidemics) and the interrelationship with other widespread disasters or disturbances. The situation in Afghanistan would be one such case, where there's a sudden breakdown of what limited order did previously exist. Wildfire evacuations in the Pacific Northwest of the US & Canada would be another. There's the long slow emergency of homelessness in California (about 100,000 individuals on any given day, not sure how many are long-term or not).