So... who decides which natural catastrophy or even war and destruction qualifies for a pause in auto demolition? If something like this happens in a third world country, do the timers stop? There's constant war in the Middle East and people lose homes all the time due to it, some may even be players. Do we stop it for them too? Or is it only convenient to stop it when it's Japan and USA? There were fires in Europe this past summer too, my own country's coast was in flames and towns were almost wiped out because of it, they're still fighting some of the fires there. Where was the pause then? Or is the rest of the world not important enough because we don't have as many players as Japan and NA do?

I'm sorry that the hurricane hit you, and that you have fires on the other side of the country, but... like... hurricanes happen every year, it's called hurricane season for a reason. Do we stop the timer every year because something somewhere could inconvenience someone? If we do that, then the timers would never even start, if we would pause it for every single disaster that hits anywhere in the world. If there's an earthquake in South America, which doesn't have as many players as NA, do we stop it then or would the people in NA not like that?