Welcome to the next in an ongoing series of writing prompts in the Worldbuilding community !
I'm aiming to post one of these each Sunday. They aren't a replacement for the excellent daily prompts from 
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The prompt this week is - Disaster Response
In the developed world, when a natural or man-made disaster strikes, we're used to the idea that the authorities will sweep in with helicopters, ships and teams of uniformed workers bringing in relief supplies, tidying up the mess and generally putting things back together again. We're lucky. In most of the less developed world, it's developed states sending aid as local governments don't have the resources.
But then you've got the bottom of the tree, places like Haiti. Not interesting enough, or too problematic. The earthquake struck, the weak government and civil society collapsed, and people were left to pick up the pieces as best they could.
The same applied historically. Cities like Troy and Jericho show repeated destruction layers with the survivors throwing up a shanty town on top of the ruins and rebuilding their civilisation over the course of several generations with no outside help. I can see the same happening to our modern developed societies if the disaster was big enough; a nuclear war or major meteor strike, for example.
Tell me a story of disaster response or recovery from your fictional setting. What was the disaster ? Was it localised, national or even global scale ? Who was first to respond ? Did anyone help the ordinary civilians, or were they left to fend for themselves ? What did any response look like ? Was it enough ? Did the society recover, and if so how long did it take and how did the disaster change what it looked like ?
Just to add a bit of spice to things, the two entries I most like (and are linked in comments to this post, so I can find them !) that are posted by midnight (GMT) next Saturday will each get a prize of one Hive SBI.
This link will take you to the FAQ where you can read more about Hive SBI - it's a project I thoroughly support because it gives both the donor and winner a steady trickle of passive income paid out in the form of upvotes on posts.
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