Cholera and typhus are both really bad ways to die. Any time you have a limited water supply, basic sanitation, like a functioning sanitation system, go first. One of my ancestors died in the Civil War from typhus, in Spotsylvania County, VA, in conditions that were measurably better than those in Harare.
I have always made it a point to include several barrels of chlorinated water in our emergency preparations, and to fill the bathtubs when hurricanes threaten. We can all easily point to the root causes of this horrific situation in Zimbabwe. The harder part is helping them find a permanent solution that doesn't involve the usual 3rd world "solution" of mass murder.
Boy great post.
And you are right. Awful ways to die.
And I can’t believe you know about someone in your family tree from the civil war!!
I have seen a picture of my Italian great grandfather.
That’s all the history before grandpas that I know.
And yes, it is difficult to help these people as we learned in “Blackhawk Down”.
And maybe there IS nothing we can do to help them.
But we can at least not LOL at the situation.
BTW, I NEVER thought of preparing for ANY event that would have implications for more than a day.
I am guessing you are not from the mid-atlantic states.
Though I know some who prepare here.
I don’t and you’ve just opened my eyes to the need for it.
Sandy should have done that!!
Drove a cab right before and after it. It was VERY surreal.