As we have all read, and I’m sure experienced or felt,
hurricane Sandy has been attacking the east coast for days. Catastrophic
flooding, fires, and awful storms have followed within their path. In Hoboken
and NY city suburbs, neighborhoods across the state and iconic boardwalks have
been destroyed with New Jersey taking the largest brunt of it.
Officials
in Jersey say that they’ve had it the worst. Billions of dollars in property
damage have been said to arise from this storm. At least 2 million people have
been without power since Wednesday, and more than 6,000 people have been put
into shelters.
Through
the course of this time, Jersey’s official even announced that eight people’s
lives were already taken. Thus announcing their concern for more fatalities if
this continued. For day’s the officials and policeman have been struggling to
find and evacuate more homes, but with each toll, they find more fatalities.
This
catastrophic event has taken out: boardwalks along Seaside Heights, Belmar, and
other towns; amusement parks, arcades and restaurants; bridges to barrier
islands; and many, many property’s. This destructing has led to state wide
curfews to prevent looting. Gasoline stations and grocery stores are being
stripped bare by the minute because of the large fear radiating off of this
hurricane.
Not
only is this a problem in Jersey, but in the Northeast. In long island there
have been over 60 deaths and 6 million left without powers. These crisis,
however, don’t relate quite to the flooding crisis in Hoboken. The city across
the river of Manhattan has flooded in ways no one has ever seen. When the storm
him, the Hudson River overcame the sea wall with devastating torrents that made
the eastern half of the city higher, leaving 20,000 people stuck within their
homes until the Natural Guard came in.
No one
knows what exactly caused Hurricane Sandy, but what we do know is that she is
costing us million of dollars. This is a devastating problem because of our own
trillion dollar deficit. If this hurricane is causing fatalities and causing
our deficit to go up, obviously we have a problem. This is one of the times
when we all need to come together and that’s exactly what we are doing. With
support, not only from President Obama but also from the nation as a whole, we
have the ability to get out of this crisis together.
Natural
disasters destroy, yes, but they also have the ability to bring us together.
Sure Hurricane Sandy has destroyed, but she has also helped out nation to learn
how to cooperate with one another in a way that helps solve the crisis, in a
way that helps other people give comfort, and in a way that helps us all stay together.
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