{"id":38576,"date":"2018-10-02T09:12:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T14:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38576"},"modified":"2018-10-02T09:12:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T14:12:55","slug":"disaster-collectivism-how-communities-rise-together-to-respond-to-crises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38576","title":{"rendered":"Disaster collectivism: How communities rise together to respond to crises"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico on Sept. 20, 2017, Judith Rodriguez was asleep in her home. Or rather, she was trying to sleep, but the sounds of the deadly storm blowing over the island woke her up.<\/p>\n

“That whistle was the ugliest I’ve heard in my life,”\u00a0Rodriguez said. “A whistle that was never silent. It was endless. \u2026 I thought that my house was in good condition, at least I thought that. And as I woke up at 2:30am, I felt scared. The first scare was when the back door went flying off \u2014 a metal door in the kitchen.”<\/p>\n

Like much of the island, the town of Cayey, where Rodriguez lives, was plunged into darkness for months<\/a>, as winds reaching 175 mph destroyed power lines and tore roofs off houses. Already in the midst of a crippling debt crisis<\/a>, and with no immediate relief in sight, communities like Cayey had to make due with the few resources they had.<\/p>\n

“In my house I had a lot of plates,”\u00a0Rodriguez says. “What if I donate my plates that are laying in a corner in my home?”\u00a0She wasn’t the only one with that idea. In towns and cities all over the island, from Cayey to Caguas and\u00a0Humacao to Las Marias, something began to stir. Plate donations\u00a0grew into community kitchens\u00a0which grew into community centers which grew into a movement. With its furiously whistling winds, Hurricane Maria had awakened something in the Puerto Rican people, something that storms, fires, earthquakes \u2014 and all manner of disasters and catastrophes \u2014 have awakened in communities all around the world.<\/p>\n

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