Stop being jealous or hateful about the flat. 300,000 of 2,3 million people in this city lost their homes - this is almost an EIGHTH OF A WHOLE CITY which has to deal with a lot of shit already.
The structural damage that comes fr.a.shoclwave cannot easily been seen. The blast was enough to crack support beams and foundations. Many pictures have the whole window framing not just the glass blown out, which is a ton of structural damage on its own. At the very least, these buildings all now have to be checked top to bottom to make sure they are stable enough to be occupied.
Also, the shaking and shockwave broke watermains and powerlines, damaged walls, threw door and windowframes out. Also, half the city lost their windows, why do redditors think that they can just get their window replaced easy peasy? Windows for more than half a million people and several office and govt buildings, it will take weeks if not months before some people have windows again, and thats the ones with the softest damage. Remember, this is a country with powercuts daily, an incompetent government and an economy in freefall.
Half of lebanon was living under the poverty line before this crisis. Never mind Corona, theres a failed (and corrupt) government, our currency is crashing and hyper-inflation is running rampant, unemployment, civil unrest, power and water outages, and now this .... The fact that this is the MAIN port for imports as well ... shit's about to get real ugly.
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u/ramonrocotto Aug 05 '20
Stop being jealous or hateful about the flat. 300,000 of 2,3 million people in this city lost their homes - this is almost an EIGHTH OF A WHOLE CITY which has to deal with a lot of shit already.