In related news, Mexican illegal immigration continues to be the United States' costliest disaster.
No the Mexican government is their costliest disaster. Wilma was their costliest NATURAL disaster.AWB
Their costliest disaster is yet to come if they keep exporting population in this direction.
Grab 4 ten foot long two by fours and four ten foot long two by tens out of the rubble piles.
Nail the two by tens together to form a wide flat box, laying on the ground.
Cover it with black visqueen and fill it with sea water.
Nail the two by fours together, and staple clear visqueen to them such that it lops over the edges a foot or so. Make sure it's taut.
Use four one or two foot two by fours out of the rubble piles for corner posts and suspend the clear plastic and frame over the tub of seawater, on a slant, so that one corner is lower than the other three.
Put a bucket under the low corner, and make sure that the floppy sides of the clear visqueen keep the breeze from stealing your moisture laden air from above the tank.
There's water for four people, indefinitely.
If you stand there and watch it work for about ten minutes, you can come up with ideas for improvements that will increase the efficiency tenfold.
Now, once you start rebuilding, put some of the tax money collected from the hundreds of billions of dollars the resorts have raked in over decades into an account to pay for the next inevitable storm that comes along, and don't spend it on other projects, "necessary" or not.
There you go, Mexico, all the "aid" you need.
get busy.