Thank you for bringing this up, it was the parallel story that first popped into my mind as well, as this was a national tragedy of rare proportions. To me the

Thank you for bringing this up, it was the parallel story that first popped into my mind as well, as this was a national tragedy of rare proportions. To me the amount of people streaming from everywhere in the entire country (!) to help fix up a region that has been struck with disaster moved me to tears more than once now. And the happier I am about this circumstance, the angrier I get at politicians and some media.