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zombo_pig t1_je2oksl wrote

Reply to comment by wam654 in Recently arrived Ukrainians in Minneapolis head to Mississippi to help tornado victims | MPR News by ElectrikDonuts

I know this should be uplifting - and it is! - but it's also bittersweet thinking how accustomed Ukrainians are to helping out in disaster zones.

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Physical_Average_793 t1_je307dx wrote

I think it’s just a cultural thing like in the US

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RanoutofBananas t1_je34zq2 wrote

Disasters? Surely you don't mean helping with disasters, once the news forgets about it so does everyone else. All that crap that's happened the last five years? It didn't happen now that it's over. All those devastated fire and flood towns are fiiine. We're fiiinnee.

#cope

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MACCRACKIN t1_je3k78p wrote

But not once in 100yrs - it's always the same group who live just outside the area there never assist.

We've driven 12 hours straight to Oklahoma from MPLS everytime there's a tornado.

Most of homes ripped clean off their slabs, where you need GPS just to figure out where your Son lives, stationed there.

Local Wal-Mart's filled with so many smashed cars and vehicles, just to get them out of the way.

Cheers

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