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Speaking of kindness to strangers, my entire city has turned into the Justice League because of the recent floods. Unfortunately there is no attention from the international or even the national media even though hundreds of people are dead, thousands are lost, displaced, freezing, stuck without medical care or starving, and hundreds of millions of dollars of property damage. More importantly there is no electricity or internet or phone signal, so no one is able to call for help or tell their loved ones they are ok. But I'm so fucking proud of these people here, normal people who are working tirelessly to save the city. We've been sending out food packets, rescuing people from their rooftops, reviving animals, transporting fuels to generators from hospitals. This is unprecedented volunteer work from just every day citizens, and since it would be out of character for me to gush over how proud I am of my fellow city-folk in person, I will gush on Stickpage where none of them can see me.

True man. Hats off to these good Samaritans. Fuck political parties, not leaving a chance to promote themselves by sticking their names/faces on the food packets. Sick fucks man.

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Speaking of kindness to strangers, my entire city has turned into the Justice League because of the recent floods. Unfortunately there is no attention from the international or even the national media even though hundreds of people are dead, thousands are lost, displaced, freezing, stuck without medical care or starving, and hundreds of millions of dollars of property damage. More importantly there is no electricity or internet or phone signal, so no one is able to call for help or tell their loved ones they are ok. But I'm so fucking proud of these people here, normal people who are working tirelessly to save the city. We've been sending out food packets, rescuing people from their rooftops, reviving animals, transporting fuels to generators from hospitals. This is unprecedented volunteer work from just every day citizens, and since it would be out of character for me to gush over how proud I am of my fellow city-folk in person, I will gush on Stickpage where none of them can see me.

I really love it and at the same time so annoyed the fact that we have to do the work that the governments should be doing.

But damn Nish, great job. It probably feels good being thanked and being smiled at after good deeds.

I've probably personally saved about 60 cats and dogs and innumerable crows and pigeons who were starving and half-frozen. Helping out people has its rewards too, but its terrifying because it could have easily been the other way around and I could have been one of the people killed or displaced in the floods. Each time I go out to help or rescue someone there is a risk of a bridge collapsing or a dam bursting or a river sweeping across everything.

My area was fortunately not torn apart completely but I feel like I keep accidentally dodging bullets because I was in Sri Lanka during the 2004 Tsunami that killed thousands of people here too, and I was in one of the very few coastal area that weren't completely wiped out. My house in Sri Lanka is literally 30 feet away from the ocean (not beach, the actual ocean water... I can throw a tennis ball into the water from my terrace) and yet the waves on our side didn't wipe us out, it was a minor inconvenience at best while the rest of the coast was obliterated. I wonder whats more to come.

You're just that manly.

Helping out has its burdens, I wonder how you put up with that.

Kinda surprised how flooding like this isn't reported by the media if that many people were affected. Is this flooding all due to El Nino Nish?

All I know is that for 5 nights now, we're getting more rainfall in one night than the entire UK gets in a year. So we're taking a pounding.

How do you know it isn't reported though? Didn't you say you have no access to the internet or the television and whatnot? I mean, they might have reported it, and you just missed it. Maybe.

That reminds me when I was in a similar situation in which a forestfire broke out near my village and was close to surrounding it.

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Unfortunately there is no attention from the international or even the national media even though hundreds of people are dead, thousands are lost, displaced, freezing, stuck without medical care or starving, and hundreds of millions of dollars of property damage.

Well this reminded me with a local news that probably hadn't been noticed by the international too (one of those major forest burning around last month, got slightly surprised with people reaction and comments regarding to their nescience in that). Good thing the rainy season has come so that the amount of smoke already decreased.

Wow Nish, that must be helluva job you did there. I salute ya. Hope the flood will go down soon.

The most I've done to help in a calamity was when I volunteered to repack some goods sent by the UN when there was a big landslide that killed hundreds of people where I'm from. It happened 6 years ago. It was pretty bad; my school had the closest open field to the slide, so it's where all the dead bodies carried by the helicopters went. I never took a closer look (I doubt I would have been allowed to anyway), but I can see from afar how many corpses were laid out. It was pretty freaking morbid. It's completely different from when you see it on TV.

The UN goods were surprisingly effective in making me full. They were just crackers but they got me through lunch until I had eventually ran out.

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How do you know it isn't reported though? Didn't you say you have no access to the internet or the television and whatnot? I mean, they might have reported it, and you just missed it. Maybe.

Because I got power and internet before I posted that, and social media on this side of the world is abuzz with outrage about how its not being reported.

Current death toll is about 500 here. But thousands of families are still unaccounted for or lost. Lets see.

It's sad how biased the media is. Everyone and their mom found out about France but there's nothing on the news about Nish's situation here.

How're you holding up?

Is it bad that I'm not touched at all? I know that people have a hard time and I want to feel bad (kinda, I'm not a masochist). But still, I don't feel anything, I don't feel bad, I don't even feel angry or have an opinion. In neither shooting or disaster that happened recently. Maybe it's because I can't understand how other people feel when I haven't been on their shoes. Maybe I'm spoiled by the tranquility and inactivity of my home town (village). Or perhaps I'm a psychopath like terrorsama.

Quote from Not_Nish

Speaking of kindness to strangers, my entire city has turned into the Justice League because of the recent floods. Unfortunately there is no attention from the international or even the national media even though hundreds of people are dead, thousands are lost, displaced, freezing, stuck without medical care or starving, and hundreds of millions of dollars of property damage. More importantly there is no electricity or internet or phone signal, so no one is able to call for help or tell their loved ones they are ok. But I'm so fucking proud of these people here, normal people who are working tirelessly to save the city. We've been sending out food packets, rescuing people from their rooftops, reviving animals, transporting fuels to generators from hospitals. This is unprecedented volunteer work from just every day citizens, and since it would be out of character for me to gush over how proud I am of my fellow city-folk in person, I will gush on Stickpage where none of them can see me.

That's a terrible situation but thank god the city is populated by good people.

I haven't heard a goddamned thing about it in the media here. But godspeed man.

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Is it bad that I'm not touched at all? I know that people have a hard time and I want to feel bad (kinda, I'm not a masochist). But still, I don't feel anything, I don't feel bad, I don't even feel angry or have an opinion. In neither shooting or disaster that happened recently. Maybe it's because I can't understand how other people feel when I haven't been on their shoes. Maybe I'm spoiled by the tranquility and inactivity of my home town (village). Or perhaps I'm a psychopath like terrorsama.

No one is asking you to flail your hands in the air and wail over something that isn't on your plate. Humans can only really perceive what's right in front of us. Honestly it would be a little insulting to pretend to really understand the situation.
Still though, try a little empathy.

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Is it bad that I'm not touched at all? I know that people have a hard time and I want to feel bad (kinda, I'm not a masochist). But still, I don't feel anything, I don't feel bad, I don't even feel angry or have an opinion. In neither shooting or disaster that happened recently. Maybe it's because I can't understand how other people feel when I haven't been on their shoes. Maybe I'm spoiled by the tranquility and inactivity of my home town (village). Or perhaps I'm a psychopath like terrorsama.

Terrosama isn't a pyschopath, he just has little empathy.