and that was only dealing with the immediate flooding. the biggest death toll is going to be from lack of medical care/disease, exposure, and dehydration (as wells are now contaminated with harmful microbes, and from coliform carrying floodwaters; and through the public water infrastructure being destroyed or offline for the foreseeable future); in the weeks to months to come, now that the entire infrastructure of that region is destroyed, water (the single most important resource needed to survive) now has to be transported in, and a working electrical grid is projected to not be in place for months (with winter approaching by the day, mean death by hypothermia). that's what they really don't want people talking about. and why this stoppage of aid is such a big deal. every single thing people need to survive now has to be brough in from surrounding areas; and it will need to be for months on end. if you aren't living close to a distribution area, you are eventually going to die, if you can't live in a totally self sufficient way. you are hearing horror stories and reports of now isolated people having to walk tens miles in the mountains and hills (because the roads that were their primary means of getting in and out were now washed away; and walking this distance is no easy feat on someone who isn't physically prepared for it or who doesn't have the resources (paper maps to know where the closest possible town and city might be and means of navigation, water and way to treat it, food, adequate equipment and clothing that now might have been washed away or lost in a landslide)) off their isolated properties after not having anything to eat or drink for days. those are the ones that were smart and strong enough to be able to make a self-rescue. they are going to be finding dead bodies in isolated and cut off houses and properties (whose only really way to access them now is through makeshift trails and helicopters) for months on end, from here on out.
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