Hi my name is Nazneen and i believe one adequate response New York City had in affect after hurricane Sandy was setting up the rescue centers for victims. I would call this accommodative setup because New York City organized rescue centers near areas that had gotten hit hard by hurricane Sandy. So that way victims can be provided with food and water. Accommodative setup is when something is organized to help and supply others with help. In Sandy Storylines Sheri states that she'd get up and "go to the rescue center for food and water, there were no stoves to cook on"(waiting for daylight). Setting up rescue centers for victims was a very accommodating thing to do because it helped out a lot of people with no power or water after hurricane Sandy. New York City was not fully prepared for this hurricane but the rescue centers were very a good source of help. If there were no accommodative setup then during Super storm Sandy, a lot of people would have to struggle with not having items they could not get right away. Rescue centers were very essential to victims of hurricane sandy.

I believe New York's response to hurricane sandy was adequate because privatization schemes did not occur. Privatization schemes are when a project, land or anything else that can be privatized are handed off to private companies or individuals. In the passage Blanking the Beach from The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klen takes the tsunami in Sri Lanka and mentions how after the tsunami the government had privatization schemes in effect. She states "The newly elected government would need billions from foreign creditors to reconstruct the homes, roads, schools and railways destroyed in the storm"(Naomi Klen74).  This clearly states that after the Tsunami in Sri Lanka, the government handed out contracts to foreign companies to rebuild from the storm. This keyword can also relate to Naomi Klen's passage Super storm Sandy from The Shock Doctrine. During hurricane Sandy, Naomi Klen talks about certain individuals in New York City suggesting "many of those public works project shouldn't be public at all"(Naomi Klen129). A lot of New York City's officials believed that the reconstruction after hurricane sandy should have gone to private companies and not public companies but the law did not let them proceed with this idea. This statement is a direct relation to privatization schemes. Some government officials attempt to use a crisis like hurricane sandy and turn it into a privatization scheme is ridiculous. But thank god we have law in this country to prevent them from doing so.

I am writing this blog about some Sandy story lines for my English 101 class. One of the sandy story lines revolves around the Turner family and their struggle to get back into their house. Mrs.Turner was 8 months pregnant when sandy hit and she had to deal with the pressure of finding a rental home for her family as well as a load of paperwork to fix the damages to her house. She calls it the "hamster on the wheel"(sandy storyline; Mrs.Turner).  She believes they're just going to keep running and "eventually maybe we'll get off the wheel"(sandy storyline). It is like a constant run when you have to go back and forth trying to get paperwork done. Living in a rented place and still having to pay mortgage on your home. Mrs.Turner can't even walk away from the house because she still owes money. Imagine being stuck with something you don't even want. It will take up to a year before she can actually move back into her house. It must be harsh to deal with so much when you have a new born son and a daughter to take care off. I'm sure there a plenty of families who still don't have a proper place to stay after hurricane sandy. My question is why? The clean up after hurricane sandy should not take this long. Mrs.Turner and her family should not have to wait a year to get back into their homes. If just a storm like hurricane sandy can have such a big impact on Mrs.Turner and her family then just imagine when climate change really occurs and we will be having more severe storms. Just as Nordhaus William describes in his book The Climate Casino. Climate change is occurring and the worst is yet to come.

Doreen Willem ,in the sandy story line "We're Still here", is another victim of hurricane sandy. She witnessed the storm with her own two eyes. She states "I never seen anything like this in all my years"(Doreen willem sandy storyline). She describes the storm as a frightening event. The tree in front of her house was rustling back and forth and she was scared the whole entire time that the tree will fall straight into her house. Doreen had no heat or electricity for three weeks. But she decided she won't be going anywhere and she will keep cleaning her house in and out. Doreen is such a strong willed woman who stands her ground. i can interpret this because she does not complain about the fact that she has no electricity or heat but she rather states that her and her family are preparing thanksgiving at the moment. People like Doreen are good to have around because it makes everyone have a much stronger will to get thru hard times. Going thru a storm which you do not know the outcome is pretty scary. Doreen's boyfriend swam out to the front of the house to try to save the cars but was not successful. A lot of their processions had been ruined. Hurricane sandy affected people like Doreen and now she is more aware. Maybe due to hurricane sandy people can be more aware about climate change and give attention to the details. In the Climate Casino, Nordhaus talks about more awareness of the people is needed to help prevent global warming. I'm sure the victims of Hurricane Sandy can be some out of a bunch that would be willing to learn more about global warming.