Yaroslav Herin
Sociology 315
ID#: 109085843
Extra Credit Paper.
Hurricanes are the most devastating acts of nature, they come and go, but leave us with destruction death and chaos. Hurricanes are very random and are now easier to predict thanks to new technology. Still in this day of time we can track hurricanes and we can tell how strong a certain hurricane is but we cannot stop them or redirect them. If a strong hurricane is predicted to come our only option is to evacuate. This shows us how vulnerable we are and how every aspect of our normal life can change drastically with one deadly hurricane, just as it did in Eric Larson’s, Isaacs Storm.
Unlike in Isaac’s time where the only inventions that forecasters and weather prediction bureau …show more content…
During that Fall of 1900 Galveston’s weather bureau, and Isaac Cline did a very poor job tracking the hurricane. But it is hard to place all the blame on them as they did not have the right technology to know that the storm took a different route than predicted and was coming to Galveston. As for hurricane Sandy that struck New York through late October of 2012 we had plenty of warnings. The news was buzzing of a category three hurricane that could possibly flood the city. Mass evacuations took place in red danger zones. Emergency shelters in many schools and hospitals opened. Although everyone took precautions and were prepared for such a killer hurricane the city itself was not. NYC is know for its amazing infrastructure, subway system that connects the five boroughs, and the highways that stretch for miles connecting Long Island to Queens. However with this great infrastructure New York cannot withstand mass flooding, it is certainly not hurricane proof. This is why when hurricane Sandy hit New York, subway systems were closed for weeks and highway exits were closed due to flooding. Tunnels such as the Holland Tunnel and the Battery Park tunnel had to be pumped out which nearly took two weeks. From my own experience if you did not have a jeep you had no intention of going out. Many people were stranded in their vehicles because the water level was so high. State of Emergency was
Sociology 315
ID#: 109085843
Extra Credit Paper.
Hurricanes are the most devastating acts of nature, they come and go, but leave us with destruction death and chaos. Hurricanes are very random and are now easier to predict thanks to new technology. Still in this day of time we can track hurricanes and we can tell how strong a certain hurricane is but we cannot stop them or redirect them. If a strong hurricane is predicted to come our only option is to evacuate. This shows us how vulnerable we are and how every aspect of our normal life can change drastically with one deadly hurricane, just as it did in Eric Larson’s, Isaacs Storm.
Unlike in Isaac’s time where the only inventions that forecasters and weather prediction bureau …show more content…
During that Fall of 1900 Galveston’s weather bureau, and Isaac Cline did a very poor job tracking the hurricane. But it is hard to place all the blame on them as they did not have the right technology to know that the storm took a different route than predicted and was coming to Galveston. As for hurricane Sandy that struck New York through late October of 2012 we had plenty of warnings. The news was buzzing of a category three hurricane that could possibly flood the city. Mass evacuations took place in red danger zones. Emergency shelters in many schools and hospitals opened. Although everyone took precautions and were prepared for such a killer hurricane the city itself was not. NYC is know for its amazing infrastructure, subway system that connects the five boroughs, and the highways that stretch for miles connecting Long Island to Queens. However with this great infrastructure New York cannot withstand mass flooding, it is certainly not hurricane proof. This is why when hurricane Sandy hit New York, subway systems were closed for weeks and highway exits were closed due to flooding. Tunnels such as the Holland Tunnel and the Battery Park tunnel had to be pumped out which nearly took two weeks. From my own experience if you did not have a jeep you had no intention of going out. Many people were stranded in their vehicles because the water level was so high. State of Emergency was