Below here I will quoting an article from our local newspaper, which refers to behavior after a hurricane when the urgent life threatening phase has passed. What in general is said that after the initial 4-6 weeks of basic life necessities have passed, people start to have excessive aggressive behavior. To be honest this was something I was just think about earlier in the week, since I work in the local hospital here, and seeing the consequences of all this drama. Of course because of my job I can not go into details, but bottom line is I see a lot of shit at the moment.


Also while being on the road you feel a sense of hostility, while normally we are called 'the friendly island' for a reason. Especially in traffic you would never need longer than 5 seconds before parking out, because somebody will stop and give you a chance. I almost just got  ran over on my way home today. We have road works in front of my house, with traffic lights because there is only one lane available. A truck went through red, and really wanted to pass, and when I was shouting at him that the hell he was doing, and the guy stopped and opened his door to shout a lot back at me. Okay, so my behavior was also more aggressive than I usually would be, which surprised me. This is just traffic, but people shooting each other in the face is just not good at all.

PHILIPSBURG--The Police Force has noticed a trend toward unnecessary violent and/or aggressive behaviour among persons within the community in the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria.

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I guess it is hard going back to normal life, and dealing with everything that happened. Too bad people get violent .. ps you wrote : shooting in the face instead of shouting :-) I thought shooting??? what??? but I don't see you as one to grab a gun so I guess it should be shouting :-) just saying ...
hehehe...I was shouting the trucker guy in the face, and somewhere in the week people were shooting each other in the face... so both are true! haha