Losses were very heavy, but locals wasted no time bemoaning their fate. Instead, they immediately formed a reconstruction committee which chose to rebuild the local economy by reviving the black tea and pottery industries on which the area had once depended.
澀水人沒有時間怨天尤人，很快成立重建委員會，選擇原本生根於此的紅茶與陶土工藝，重振地方經濟。