Natural disasters are terrible any way you slice it. Hurricane Sandy was a particularly devastating storm for people in the Northeast. My heart goes out to those people affected by the storm, especially those who have lost loved ones. Having grown up in New Jersey, I still have many friends who live in that area, including a cousin who’s in-laws have a house on the Jersey Shore that is underwater. Some of their neighbors’ houses were completely wiped away by the surge.
Aside from the obvious personal and financial damage from the storm, one downside of natural disasters that particularly irks me is the inevitable bad economics and political grandstanding that fills the airwaves after such an event. It bothers me because it is a self-destructive response that has real negative consequences on people’s lives and that it is completely avoidable if people only took the time to understand basic…
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