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/