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Exactly right. When we cancelled our reservation in the town impacted by the flooding the hotel owner thanked us, saying that now he had one more room for the emergency workers. We felt better about our privileged lives knowing that at least we were staying out of the way instead of consuming resources needed by people who were already in a tough situation.
1 month agoThanks Steve.
We on this forum are in a privileged position, with a greater contrast in SL than Spain. It is not the possible dangers that worry me, more that if I did get hurt then my insurance would (hopefully) kick in and help me while locals around me were denied that help…..and if nothing bad to me happened then I would still be consuming local food and water needed by others.
Even now tourists are visiting SL and their media seems to be encouraging people to continue with their trips. In two months time as the rains reduce then hopefully life there will improve.
Regards
Andy
You are probably right to keep your trip plans in place. It would be a different story if you were leaving next week, or in the middle of the disaster event. We rode in to Valencia a few years ago, in the middle of their terrible flooding event. Since we do not keep up with the news when on tour we were complerely unaware of the problem. Once aware we did a quick pivot of plan and stayed longer in the city which was not directly impacted.
1 month ago
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