“It’s evidence that when official channels fail, other parts of society respond.” (Feurer). The previous statement really sums up the disaster that followed after Hurricane Sandy. Everyone was basically looking out for one another after this horrific natural disaster. I remember that I had to travel to the Stop and shop down the street in order to do my nebulizer because I had a horrible asthma attack the day after. My experience isn’t as dreadful as those that the people of the NYCHA’s Gowanus Houses had to go through. I cannot even imagine staying in my home for a week because I was trapped at a higher level of a building and not having electricity/heat/power for 11 full days. Both the Huffington post and the New York Times Articles clearly send out the message that during these hard times, government officials were the slow ones to react and that has to be fixed. Volunteers made this difficult time smoother for all those that were suffering. Its truly sad how we were not prepared for such a thing and I hope the governmental officials took note of how devastating this storm was and have made plans to address the issues it brought up.

Question: What types of rules and laws would the government have to put into action to prevent something like this from happening again? Or is this type of consequence from a natural disaster inevitable?