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Make no mistake, hurricanes are violent.
More damage done to the windows of the central business district than every single May 1st demo in history combined. Permanent damage to electric grid, to waterworks, to bridges, and all other forms of infrastructure. Policing completely paralyzed in the affected area for 48 hours. Roads obstructed by trees, flooding, landslides, craters.

The rapid response, army swoops in, a brief state of exception, a subtle case of martial law. National guards and army, assisting cops, guarding automatic teller machines.

Subsequently, the merger of two cellular telecom networks. All that was ruined needs to be replaced. Markets have a slight boom, old things get an update with the faster, better, stronger version. In the rebuilding, what is consolidated? Modernity doesn't destroy as thoroughly as when it builds.

Consider if you may, if you must, hurricanes as a window of opportunity, to hike prices of goods, to steal goods, to provide services for a good price, or for free, for mutual aid, for petty vandalism, for whatever. Hurricanes are a cyclical disruption of daily life, but they don't change anything, they never have.

No government has toppled because of a hurricane. They either fall by their own weight, or by the weight of mightier states, or they don't. You and your team will never match the destructive power of a hurricane. They can only hope to subsist through one, or many, hurricanes and states.