Unconcerned Blog 3

Hello everyone I am back writing about the victims of Sandy again, this story really got me emotional. Its about Deedra Cheatham who is part of the Gowanus houses community based organization for Racial and Economic Equality. There’s a limit on neglecting issues that are so severe, where it comes to the victims of Hurricane Sandy they have been neglected. When people are in need of help we seek it from our government but they are not concerned. In her mother’s apartment the steam pipe exploded and she could not reach 911, 311 or 707 “the only way I got help was to stop the cop car that was patrolling around” (No help). In the time of emergency and help is this really how we get helped. We have a government that’s really “unconcerned” (No help) by unconcerned I mean NYCHA came three days later to check on Deedra and her family asking if they were okay and they did not even get a good response back from NYCHA. NYCHA does not have any answers. 

Blanking the Beach and Key Word

Good afternoon class, I am back writing in response from Naomi Kliens writing "Blanking the Beach" sharing if New York completed its job towards the people who suffered from Hurricane Sandy. New york specially the Housing Authority was really careless and incompetent towards it job and responsibilities. In the chapter Blanking the Beach, Naomi Klien writes about the Tsunami that hit Sri Lanka in 2004 and how the community that lived on the beach did not contribute to the economic growth of the country. If they were moved to a different place their “place could be put to a more profitable use” (Klien,67). Government is doing what they planned before the wave just making the “buffer zone looked like little more than an excuse” (Klien,67). Buffer zone is when people or communities are moved and government uses their place to more profitable use. This shows the negligence of Sri Lanka’s government towards its people. Instead of helping the victims Sri Lanka made that place into a vacation spot for the rich. After Hurricane Sandy many people from New York were displaced from their homes and NYCHA did not fix their homes. They were sent back to the homes that were “unlivable” to begin with.

Sandy Storyline Blog Two

Hello everyone, today I will be writing this blog about the victims of Hurricane Sandy which is required for my English 101 class. This assignment asked me to summarize two stories about the victims of Hurricane Sandy after listening to what happened to them from the website called “Sandy Storyline”. This website includes many heart touching stories of the people who suffered and are still suffering from Hurricane Sandy. From many I will be talking only about John Watson and Barbara Ross.

John Watson and his family lived in Coney Island till Hurricane Sandy flooded their home and they were displaced to Jamaica, Queens. They have been living there for two and a half months because there were molds in their home and it was considered to be unlivable. When it was time to move back home nothing was fixed “I do everything that is asked of me but nothing is done in the other end” (Watson). NYCHA (New York City Housing Authority) had enough time to renovate his home to live in but they did nothing to fix it. This tells me that we can complain and tell the government all we want but they will not come in help for us. In the book climate casino by William Nordhaus, the motive of that book is to let everyone know what is going on about climate change. What’s the point of telling everyone if no one comes to help or does anything about these conflicts.

Where our government and authorities are not doing anything to help us we have people like Barbara Ross, who are willing to help the community. While majority of the people stayed home safe she felt “the best place to be is to be part of the community sharing the experiences good or bad” (Ross). She and her friend was trying to save a museum that he opened, asking the police for help they say “go home there’s nothing that you can do” (police). She volunteers for environmental group called “Times up” and they created energy bikes which runs by human power. So they pumped out the water from the museum using those energy bikes. It’s nice to know that there are still people who care about the community they live in. This aspect is very similar to a thought Nordhaus shares “people around the world need to understand and accept” (Nordhaus, 9). If everyone around the world and comes together all the problems can be solved.

http://www.sandystoryline.com/