How Anti-Fragile are you?
I arrived back home to Puerto Rico late last night after traveling back from our Total Access event in Las Vegas.
It was probably around 11:15 pm when I climbed into bed. And, within minutes, just as the sound of the waves outside was carrying me off to sleep, the whole house started violently shaking.
It turned out to be a magnitude 6.0 earthquake, about 20 miles off the west coast of the island.
I lived in Chile for seven years before this– one of the world’s earthquake capitals– so I’m no stranger to seismic activity.
But earthquakes are EXTREMELY rare in Puerto Rico… as in, they almost NEVER happen. People simply do not expect them.
Hurricanes, tropical storms, etc., sure, those are common occurrences here.
And you might remember that Puerto Rico was almost wiped out from 2017’s Hurricane Maria. It devastated the island and much of the Eastern Caribbean, and two years later they still haven’t recovered.
Today there’s supposed to be some Tropical Storm coming through, which, by comparison to Hurricane Maria, is barely a bit of drizzle.
But the government here is on pins and needles, and so anxious to show that they’re ready for anything that they closed schools, many government offices, and even called up the National Guard…
I can’t help but feel bad for them. They’re so scarred from Hurricane Maria two years ago that they overreact in desperation at the first warning sign of a storm.
And then, in an instant, something completely unexpected happened: Puerto Rico was hit with a 6.0 earthquake, and the government has no idea how to react.
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