Disaster Response: A New Yorker Reflects on Sandy
November 2nd, 2012 |
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Evolutionary psychologists tell us it’s human nature to search for lessons from the skies. Here is what I think Hurricane Sandy is saying to the U.S.: If you don’t hang together, you will hang separately. I feel undeservedly lucky to be in a part of New York City that has power and water in Sandy’s [...]
Keep reading »Map of Flood Risks and Hurricane Evacuation Zones Wakes Up NYC Residents [UPDATE]
August 26th, 2011 |
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As Hurricane Irene trundles toward the densely populated cities of the U.S. Northeast, residents and officials in municipalities large and small have been preparing for a full-force tropical cyclone. “All implications point to this being a historic hurricane,” President Barak Obama said in a speech Friday morning. Some 50 million people along the eastern seaboard [...]
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How to Prepare for a Hurricane in the U.S. Northeast
August 25th, 2011 |
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It’s not that the central and northern portions of the east coast of North America never see hurricanes. It’s just that we in the Northeast don’t see them that often. The last one was in 1999, and the last bad one was in 1938, a deadly one that caused damage that can still be seen [...]
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