How the society and companies here, prepared for these sorts of unpredictable natural disasters, that will make the recovery from these disasters less difficult, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
Days after the quakes in Hualien, those who were trapped on the Zhongheng and Suao-Hualien Highways were finally, rescued, and the efforts of rescue is still, pushing toward the hardest part, and the good news of TMSC up and running by eighty-percent came too. With more and more messages and images coming from the regions, people saw how scary it was, at the moment when the quakes started; the cars dodging the large rocks that had fallen from the cliffsides, the motorists, hesitant, whether to cross those, unstable, bridges, the minors stacking the sand bags by the side of the cliffs, to block out the rain of, rocks…………
like this, being ready for it, even when it's not here yet! Photo from online
We need to offer our deepest condolences to those who'd lost their lives, and, offer our blessings for those who almost got, killed! And, those of us who live faraway from the disaster regions, we may not know how it feels to be living in the moment of not knowing whether or not we would, die, but, as those who'd survived come back, and told the stories of their, survival, their stories became, an, inspiration. Just like how we'd watched the bridge start shaking, it would serve the vehicles best to stop moving; as the huge rocks fall from the skies above, the cars, staying close to the sides of the cliffs, may have a higher rate of, survival.
Like the five-story residential building that crumbled down, because the owner of the breakfast store on the first floor, was quick enough to tell all the customers to get out, it'd saved the seventeen customers' lives, as the building collapsed. While the survival story of the miners of Taiwan Cement, quite, inspiring. Because the foreman is a native of the mountain region mines, other than collecting and gathering the wild vegetations to feed to everyone, he'd set up the ropes used to get all sixty-four of the miners to climb down the cliffs to safety.
The sturdiness of the society, is an accumulation of the experiences, passed from one generation to the next. After the earthquake on September 21, 1999. Taiwan had upped the safety factor of the buildings, which helped reduced the amount of damages this time. Like how the rest of the world showed concerns of the semi-conductor chip production of Taiwan, and, in the time being, although, TMSC's production lines had been damaged, and some stopped working, but, after just ten hours, the production rate was back to over seventy-percent, and the following day, it got back to eighty-percent. It's this sort of a tenacity of the people, that can, surpass the fears that these earthquakes had, caused the society to experience.
And so, this is on how being organized, to act in the moment, to make the right decisions in time of crises is important, and because there's no way of predicting when these natural disasters will happen, we can only, make certain, that we overprepare ourselves (because more is way better than not enough!), for things like this, because, nobody can accurately predict, when the next earthquake, tornado, typhoon, cyclone, or other natural disasters will come.
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