Why Would an Economist Be Interested in Post-Disaster Recovery?

I've actually puzzled over for uh you know a decade now is why would an economist be interested in post-disaster recovery. One of the things that's important to remember and think about as in a post catastrophic disaster moment is that all of the social systems that make our lives work ordinarily are suspended at least temporarily. We learn a lot about the social coordination process generally by really taking careful paying careful attention to how it is that communities reboot and regain those practices and habits of widespread social coordination when there'sThat vacuum in the post-Disaster moment so let me ask you about a time in the field was actually a project that we worked on together and the Gulf Coast Recovery Project where we were