Nonfiction reading response

    

Hurricane Sandy was like an acting role, it came to do its job and then it left. But Sandy was a selfish big one. She destroyed homes all over Brooklyn, how could she? This powerful storm was not even close to what anyone imagined it would be. It killed few people and brought down many communities, although it helped to bring people to work together. Hurricane sandy was not just a hurricane, it was also a wedding, funeral, celebration but most of all birth. Sandy brought our communities together, it persuaded us to be giving and act kind to one another, but it also caused us to act foolish about "wants" like gas not even "needs like water.

 In NYC schools and public transportation was shut down! As a student who travels to school almost everyday by public transportation, getting to school was a mad house. In NYC a lot of the trains couldn’t run because the stations were flooded. Being 4 out of 5 students that take public transportation to school, us 4 out of 5 could not get to school. There for there was no school, but that’s not the only issue going on. People who lived in the mid region struggled with power failures, high winds and powerful flooding. This left more than 1.9 million people with power outages!

     This storm was also deadly, more than 30 deaths were reported at 1:55 pm the day sandy hit

New York; 17

Pennsylvania; 5

New Jersey: 4

Connecticut: 3

Maryland: 2

Virginia: 2

West Virginia: 2

North Carolina: 1

Off the coast of North Carolina: 1

and two not mentioned.

          As you can see based on the statistics above many lives were taken away. These lives also meant something to somebody, they weren’t just people. This makes me feel selfish inside; here are some people with nowhere to sleep no family, no cloths, people who have nothing. They are fighting just to stay alive, and here WE are with nothing to do except collect can food. Our communities are suffering, and we need to all work together to get back on track. What can we do to help others in need? Just think about it, are you doing enough?