A bicycle-riding poor person (as I was there for a few years) who had some food and water stored wouldn't sweat the situation. But almot everyone has to have their STUFF and their football or Life As They Know It has come to a stop or something. Almost everyone there is determined to be even more nature-hating and oil-guzzling than on the Mainland.

Looking at my earthquake and hurricane experiences, I sweat stuff like this a lot less than younger people who've never done without STUFF, and some of the old-old folks, who were through WWII and worked on the plantations as kids and all that, probably no sweat at all. I think of one old math teacher who wanted us to, if he had his way, run a couple miles before class "for discipline" and who spoke Pidgin so thick I often had to translate for the girl who sat next to me.