As a life long resident of the city of New Orleans, who, alongside with many of my fellow citizens came home, dug out, rebuilt, and have seen with my own eyes the enormous rebirth of the city I love with all my heart and soul, you my friend can kiss my WHO DAT!!!
When 2 -- not 1, but 2, hurricanes flattened Cancun, Cozumel, Playa del Carmen and the entire Maya Rivera, removing their legendary beaches and destroying 100% of their livelihood, the Governor of Quntana Roo went to each major city center with shovels, rakes and wheelbarrows and gave a simple, yet eloquent speech: "If we do not work, we do not eat."
That day, every person in each area started working: digging out, assisting construction, clearing barriers. THEY WERE NOT PAID other than being fed communally and having rent or mortgages temporarily suspended (to be repaid later).
No $2K debit cards. No $400 a night hotels. Just hard work and a shared understanding of what is necessary. No whining.
For them, for 500,000 - 9 months and a LOT of elbow grease. For NOLA, for 300,000 -- 4 1/2 years of whining and "gimme gimme gimme whine whine whine" which continues to this day.
If you don't feel shame, you should. Mexico showed the "can do" spirit the USA used to show.