Reading Response
This
week in New York City there was a major “super storm” named Sandy. The devastation was terrible. Almost a
hundred people through out the east coast died. Not only that, but the real
devastation came when hundreds of people lost there homes, and thousands lost
power and important recourses. What this article talks about though, is “what
if” something like this does happen again, which is a very strong possibility.
Many researchers and scientist say that sea levels have not just been rising
gradually, but rising quickly, and it will only keep getting worse.
One way the city can prep for this is to make future
buildings elastic and better equipped for a hit like this. This would be a much
more efficient way of protecting the city from another hurricane or “super
storm”. One thing Mayor Bloomberg wants to avoid is building Venetian like structures
to encapsulate NYC from any water. “I don’t think there’s
any practical way to build barriers in the oceans. Even if you spent a fortune,
it’s not clear to me that you would get much value for it.”
A huge
realization from reading this article is instead of just worrying and
complaining about now; we have to look to the future. If something like this happens
again, which is likely; we have to start coming up with ideas about protecting
the city from another one of these super storms. “Given the
frequency of these extreme weather situations we have had, for us to sit here
today and say this is once in a generation and it’s not going to happen again,
I think would be shortsighted" said Governor Cuomo.
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