The one time I was ever outside Canada was a trip to Cozumel. We got to stay in a gorgeous house in town, across the street there was a family who lived in a tiny house. Their house was made from mud brick with a corrugated steel or tin roof, they had a well out front that they had to drop a bucket into to get water. They also had a turkey tied up out front that was obviously going to be and was Christmas dinner. That house was the most abject poverty I have ever seen with my own eyes.
I shudder to think of the sheer destruction that this hurricane could bring to a house like the one I was staying in, when the reality is it would completely erase the home and people who lived in the mud brick house. I sincerely home that the Mexican authorities are doing everything they can to aid such people, though I doubt it.
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