Non Fiction Post

         After the storm Sandy hit, New York City was a wreck! Trees down everywhere, subways flooded, roofs blown right off their houses. Articles like Sandy survivors push toward normalcy and search for the missing shows the damage of the storm. Miraculously even during this event, people were making efforts to save people in danger, and donate to those in need. This is shown in the article Hurricane Sandy Relief Charities Raise More Than $92 Million. In both articles you see the call and response to the issue, which is really movong.

         Unfortunately, like in any disaster, parts of the city were left in shambles, and some people even lost there lives. The over all death toll from this storm was 85 people, a huge amount considering the amount of preparation we had, but somethings can't be helped. Also, in places such as Breezy Point, they were faced not only with flooding waters, but raging fires. Its most tragic in this storm, because it puts people at risk to try to help. In the end the fire took out 80 homes, because of the winds. With the city crippled they search for help, and try to keep people safe.

         With a storm of this size and the extent of the damage, it was really important that people who were at no loss pitched it. I think that New Yorkers rose to meet this bar right away. As shown in the article title, Hurricane Sandy Relief Charities Raise More Than $92 Million, in just a week after the storm people have donated $92 million dollars. People really are more responsive when they know it's their friends and families suffering the damage, it could have been them! Another help effort was NBC's hour long charity concert to raise money for the Red Cross, "The star-studded event featured performances by artists who hail from some of the hardest-hit areas, including New Jersey’s Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi and Long Island's Billy Joel. In this situation everyone stepped up right away, and the city was at no loss for help.

After reading about all this I was really moved, i think that this show the unit of New Yorkers, and I hope that it always stays the same. We may be the ones helping now, but who knows they might be helping us tomorrow!