A follow up about resilience and resourcefulness. I went down to Bahía Blanca for about a week after the flood to help out with recovery. One of the things we had to do was go door to door asking people what they lost and what they needed. A lot of them had lost everything. But they had incredible resilience. Yeah, some people cried and wanted to spill their story. Crying or no crying, the most common thing I saw there was this Argentine mindset of, “We’ll get through this. We’ve been through worse.”
This is a city that had already been slammed by a major windstorm the year before. And of course, like all Argentines they've have lived through a continuous state of economic crisis. No, no one deserves any of that — but the strength and resourcefulness people showed was incredible.
Honestly, I’ve heard louder complaints about the price of eggs in another country I know than from people who’d just lost everything inside their home in Bahia.