1. As Klinenberg described how certain group such as the elderly and the African American community were basically abandoned and helpless in the heatwave because they either did not have the accommodations to survive or did not have enough of a community to ban together and survive, it reminded me of Hurricane Katrina. The ones who were most affected were poor African Americans who could not get out of New Orleans before the hurricane hit. After Sandy, it occurred to me how this pattern keeps happening over and over again and there needs to be more programs for disaster protection of these poor and helpless neighborhoods so the cycle doesn’t continue.

2. I really liked the fact about the latino community. They were less affected because they were more of a tight knit community and were able to help each other. In a sense, they did not forget about each other, so the media and the government and aid did not forget about them either.

Emma Park-Hazel