Hurricane Sandy response

     I recently finished reading the article "Fractured Recovery Divides the Region" on New York Times.com. The article is mostly about the after math of "Hurricane Sandy". In the Article the authors explain that over one million people in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut have been left with out power and are left in the dark waiting for some one to come and explain to them what is happening and what they could do. The authors also explain that fuel for cars has been an extremely difficult issue as well. Only a few gas stations have gas and of those gas stations the lines are hours long and running low on gas. Many residents across Long Island and other places that were hit really hard are really mad because they have been left to basically fend for themselves because most of the people are without power, heat, some without a house and are running low on supplies like food and water.
     I realized that I'm very lucky. I mean some people don't even have a house after this and I have a house, power, heat, food, and water among other things. The authors made me realize that how many people were affected by this storm and how serious it actually was. The authors explained that the people that were hit the hardest by this storm, people without power and with damaged homes, don't even know what's happening or when someone is coming to help. They don't even know what's happening around them, I mean they can't turn on the news because they don't have power and they can't really drive somewhere or walk somewhere because they don't have any gas or the damage is so severe so all they're left with is a damaged house, no power and low supplies of food, and a hope that some one will come and save them.
     The main problem of this storm is the after math. It could take weeks and even months to get back to a somewhat normalcy somewhat because there isn't really a way to get to and from these places to start assessing and repairing the damage of this storm and somewhat because there are just to many different problems and to many people affected to do it all at once. Sooner or later all of this will be behind us and we will be able to move forward with the understanding and experience of a really bad storm.