Reading Response #5: Hurricane Sandy Eyes Coast

    The author of this article is trying to explain to us that Hurricane Sandy should be taken as a big deal because it's bigger than Irene. The article talks about how governors in most states made some people evacuate from their homes because Sandy can easily destroy their house and it could also kill them. The article explained the damages that Sandy did to the Bahamas,Cuba, and Florida. The Hurricane was also compared to Irene and it said that Irene damaged some places and many people were affected by it but Hurricane Sandy was much worse. It brought about 10 inches of rain to coastal areas, it was considered as a category 1 with 75 mile-per-hour winds.
 
    I think that next time people should take this more seriously and then maybe there wouldn't have been so many injuries, and deaths because some people weren't really affected by Irene and they thought that Sandy was going to be the same but Sandy actually did a lot of damage. I really also feel bad for people who lost their houses and belongings due to the powerful winds and rain. When the article explained all the damages Sandy caused in other places I was glad that not a lot happened around where I live and that Sandy didn't really harm anyone that I knew.

   This text changed my thinking about big storms like this, because I usually don't pay attention to what the forecasters say and I always think that nothing will happen but I was proved wrong this time. After reading this article I concluded that you'll never know when something like this will happen so you should always be prepared well enough.