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In reply to the discussion: This will get lost in the GD thread. I just have a hard time and need to rant over this Ian bullshit [View all]Irish_Dem
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It blew my mind when he talked about how he felt like he was in a personal fight with Cyclone Winston the monster.
The end of the story is a bit weird too.
He is coming back to harbor after the storm and people are shocked and rattled. A big boat comes speeding towards
him, certain to hit him head on and probably kill him. He is thinking in that split second that he survived death just
to get killed the next day.
Out of nowhere a smaller boat speeds up to the big boat and diverts it away from my brother.
He never saw either boat before or since, and it is a small harbor.
He beat death twice in less than one day.
The other interesting piece of the story is the aftermath of repair and clean up.
My brother volunteered with various international disaster organizations and with his engineering background was
assigned to rebuilding infrastructure.
He met some very young Europeans who had college degrees in Disaster Relief. I don't think we have those degrees in the US.
One young woman, barely 22 was some sort of genius. She could go for example, look at a destroyed water system and just know how to fix it very quickly and cheaply. Even though the storm had completed changed the terrain and destroyed the infrastructure.
My brother worked with her. He is an older, very experienced field engineer and she would come to him and ask him to work on projects, she would ask him to do such and such. He would say sure I can do it, but I don't understand what you are doing.
She would explain and he realized she was some sort of engineering genius. She called him from time to time to work on special projects.