Imagine yourself being self-sufficient only to have it taken away. Here's the scene, You live in a small cinder block home Mexico's Mayan communities and you grow the food you eat. Many storms have come through and you've gotten ex pulsed from your valuable harvesting grounds but nothing has been more devastating than this one hurricane, hurricane Dean. Once this deadly hurricane came sweeping though, it took away more than it brought. It left you with your very few belongings being drenched and more importantly if destroyed all of the harvest that you have been working on all season. To you this may sounds like a horrible dream but to the Mayan Indians this is a horrific nightmare. Once the hurricane hit they didn’t spend time sulking about what happened they got straight to work, to them this is just what they call “faena” or community service. Like most of the Indians home owners they spent a few minutes surveying the damage just so they could get an idea of what they needed to repair. They were use to fending for themselves but now they had to look for the government for what they needed. Their demands or few, all they wanted was some drinking water, blankets and enough food for them to get by with until they could replant. Replanting may sound like an easy thing to do but it takes time. This being said it still is a tough job for the hurricane destroyed their farmland and their trees which they use quiet often. Trees take a long time to grow back so until they do they will have little fruit (that is tree grown) and little hardwood for their homes.
This story was taken from the Friday edition of the Charlotte Observer, the link to the online version is posted below
http://www.charlotte.com/171/story/248995.html
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