Awhile ago I had ordered a lighted wired keyboard. And it arrived early. I kind of regret trying to get the cheapest I could get. It's functional but it's also a 'clicky' keyboard. I didn't realize how loud these are, I mean I've used keyboards back in the 8088 days and I still have a keyboards I got when I was upgrading systems from 386 on up (I use to run a multi-line bbs). But didn't realize about the sound.. I think it's just getting use to it. Cuz now it's doesn't feel that intrusive. Part of me felt I should just get a lamp but electrical sockets are limited where I'm at. But I'm sure to make good use of it.
@Carhole - Sorry / condolences in regards to your area, not just the 'town' but the other places that were destroyed. That's just beyond awful and I'm glad you and yours weren't in the fires. Also sorry to hear about the variety of stupid that are being currently encountered / and I hope it doesn't escalate to school board infiltration and library erosion for the island. And glad to hear about the person being removed. Yeah it's a tough choice to ponder about whether to rebuild or not. I hope if you do ever encounter that horrid situation at worse it's just pondering what level do you want to return at / and it being more your decision rather than mostly limited by what ever limitation might be at the time.. but at the same time benevolent wishes all around to you and yours in what ever spot you find yourself at in the near future.
grin And I hope at some time an acceptable 'Jetfire' does return to your possession. I hope a variety of teaching options come up for you, even if it turns out to be pre-Bob Ross (Before TV) style small community class teaching and/or teaching/selling guides to for people to slowy start and maintain crafts/general business/ and community and environmental interaction etc.
I have two bits of information that you might find useful later. And for what it's worth not learned from the military side of things though no doubt can be weaponized, but learned via anthropological/NGO-with international govt partnership / human behavior kind of thing :
One of those things we learn from survivors of mass trauma of an event that happened years ago. (learned/relearned from survivors of the 1990s/early 2k Balkan conflict)
But on a community level, what can hamper a big part of the internal healing and moving on for people is the loss of a shared physical object/not quite building but a community shared level physical object/monument. They don't even have to be fully connected to it.. like having to be catholic at a 'known' church that is gone. But it's been found that the loss significantly prevents people from 'moving on' and progressing. But rebuilding such things, maybe a sign or a locally recognized physical mound or object, basically something that was part of a local's everyday thing even if it was just something they passed by.. rebuilding it / having that part returned - realized internally - is a major help in healing a community.
Current FEMA levels probably won't get to that type of that healing recovery goal / if any it might hope locals find a way to get there. At best they'd try to keep needed residential tasks as close to their communities as much as possible, ie getting town functions portable trailers etc, to help keep town business functions in close by to lessen the chance of people having to travel to other towns and lessen the chance of unintended town discorporation in terms of regular activities by residents.
And on the professional side of things. Though disasters are generally different but with the Maui one being more 'tragic' due to the mass amount of death and also obviously not just that town but nearby other places that were loss to fire. And of course any help isn't going to fully heal / do a full recovery.. and maybe even nothing if a business owner feels the SBA (Small Businessl Administration) Loans just won't work for the situation they are in (in which case it community volunteer / other levels of govt. will hopefully provide strength to try to carry on with what they have left/start over). General package for a populated zone, besides Army Corp of Engineers, various search and rescue, NOAA National Weather Service, and Nat. guard etc. Are FEMA (sort of taking point in terms of working with a state's Governer or Tribal leadership that requesting help) - assessments with various levels / helping with water supplies/ coordinating cleaning of debris/ at times changing depending on variety of situations like number of people requesting help/ of aid, with Small Business Administration (loans for business owners), and U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (not just the agricultural aspect but animal care, including pet care - food / shelter esp. if owners are in shelters that can't handle pets). Though this paragraph might not be directly helpful, if you know of people affected even the slightest ask them to fill out help through FEMA. Even if it gets declined, the 'identification' number assigned to them via FEMA, can be helpful as other Fed agencies may assign priority to those folks, ie say U.S. Dept. of Agricultural services taking those folks and putting them ahead of the line. Not much but it's something.
