This was evident from the disastrous situations in other countries.
International news was filled with tragic scenes from India's Ganges River basin: a murky, yellow-brown torrent that blotted out the sky tore through the riverbanks. Ten-story religious complexes toppled like building blocks. Pilgrims in the Holy City of Varanasi struggled against the flood's crest, and bloated corpses tangled in prayer flags were swept into the Bengal Bay alongside gharials.
In the Mississippi River Delta, 98% of the towns were inundated by the saltwater backflow. In the Brazilian Amazon Basin, a thirty-meter-high "wall of water" devoured the rainforest. On the Danube Riverbank, centuries-old wineries became whirlpools as the surface runoff was rerouted...
Similar scenes, far more tragic than those within the country, were playing out all over the world.
However, the country was currently overwhelmed with its own problems and naturally had no capacity to aid the rest of the world.
