I like how the US media is focusing on the tourists more than the people who actually live there


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What? People actually live there?

Someone has to run the resorts.

I don't know what kind of living conditions the Yucatan natives stay in, but I'm guessing they aren't hurricane-rated houses.

you know what though B, sometimes I wonder if they do have good hurricane homes. Whenever a hurricane moves through these islands I seem to remember less people killed than in the States. I'm not sure if that's because they have less population or the government doesn't report it.

Let's face it, many of them may have dwellings that while easily destroyed are easily rebuilt. Maybe everyone moves deep inland for a couple of days and then goes back to rebuild?

I bet none of those people scan FEMA.

I can't find any records of death by country ... but this doesn't seem right to me. Seems I always hear double digits for Cuba, etc ... but single digit deaths for the US.

Damage always appears to cost less, but I'm sure that's because Americans have more expensive homes.

Proximity. The US media covers mainly US citizens. The Mexican media covers mainly Mexican citizens.

Did you know we had hurricanes in the Pacific? I didn't!!

yes there are hurricanes in the pacific, they often don't hit anything though.

When they form closer to Asia they're often called typhoons

Typhoons in the Pacific, Hurricanes in the Atlantic.

That's what I always thought anyway.

my best guess is that the tourists didnt go there expecting a hurricane, and since these people live there, they are used to this sort of thing

That National Hurricane Center disagrees with you.

The US media is famously narcissistic. Shit only matters if it happens to Americans. It's pathetic and infuriating. But it's a fact.

Our media system is retarded in this country. Im sure there will be a story about how Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico will harm the search for that girl in Aruba.

so how many times did canada, mexico or even japan report last year how several towns by me were wiped out due to flooding from the hurricanes of last year?

Other countries don't cover these things period, the US Media outlets cover these events to see how they will impact other Americans.

ohhhh ok, i get it, the gall of the media to cover something that may affect americans......

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thats cruel, but looks like true

every country is like that, its only huge things like terrorist attacks or the tsunami or whatever that everyone covers it.

you do realize if the news channels covered every single thing that anyone thought was relavent itd take too much time, not that it make sit right, its just not really possible

I've been all over the Yucatan. These people are fucked for the most part. Most of the homes I saw outside of Cancun didn't have windows or doors, had dirt floors, and thatch roofs.