LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
HUFFINGTON
12.02.12
Far From
Unthinkable
n this week’s Huffington, five HuffPost
reporters give a detailed and unsparing
account of the man-made factors
behind Hurricane Sandy’s damage. John Rudolf, Ben Hallman,
Chris Kirkham, Saki Knafo and
Matt Sledge not only tell the story
of the storm, but paint a damning
picture of the shortcuts, expedient
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decision-making and lack of preparation that allowed it to inflict
such suffering and devastation.
“In the end,” they write, “a pellmell, decades-long rush to throw
up housing and businesses along
fragile and vulnerable coastlines
trumped commonsense concerns
about the wisdom of placing hundreds of thousands of closely huddled people in the path of potential
cataclysms.” The story of Hurricane Sandy begins long before the
storm made landfall. It’s a story of
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