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it is lucky, we have no such hurricane here

you know  all of us saying should care about erth but Do not perform any action

 ALENA  , your post is not far from real life situations. One of my cousins in the past worked at  Target  ,a well known shopping store in California, here is the story: at that time  an earthquake hit the area  damaging  homes and killing scores of people in Northridge ,  after the quake, while shopping , the shoppers were so nice ,greeting each other  ,smiling and changing courtesies,  but ….  shoppers  forgot the lesson and  in Christmas  were fighting over a barbie doll  that was on sale.    real story.

   Hurricane Sandy: people recognized values in life

   Watching the news and reading newspapers about horrible Hurricane Sandy (even words “horrible” and “hurricane” are almost identical in spelling) put an idea of new topic into my head. 

   Well, despite this fact that people were warned about the disaster, not all of them were ready to the Sandy`s comming morally. Unfortunately, a hurricane brought a lot of deaths. Many people were injured. Why am I writing all this?

   Those people began to realise the real value of life. Fashionable clothes, expensive houses, cars and other things became less important for them cause their relatives, friends and acquaintances were in trouble. How much they could give to bring them back to life! How much they could give just to have the opportunity to see and talk to them!

   Life is too short and you don`t know actually what it can happen tommorow. So, please, don`t be shy and say people who are close to you about your feelings and attitude to them. 

   My artical seems to be rather pessimistic but I find it useful and thought-provoking. By the way, it`s a good motto for life: “Never put off till tommorow what you can do today”!

i think the storm was caused by climate changs.humans made the earth a place for dangers like storms and hurricane sandy.one reason is increasing the temperature of the earth that caused by human’s activity like increasing CO gas,we must be carful for our activity..we r responsible for these changs and for future.thnx for this topic. 

I live UK    but so cold here   ? i dont like cold i like hom

Julito I agree, haphazard construction is another reason why the tally of human casualties is so high when hurricanes strike.

I have experienced some torrential downpours and hurricanes, but I’ve never suffered damages like what I’ve seen on TV.

     Of course climate change could have been the catalyst for Hurricane Sandy. We might say Mother Nature has a mind on her own and manifests her actions whenever she feels please, but judging by the rate in which these events have occurred we should look for another accomplice: mankind.  Us, and our reckless ways of treating the earth is what’s attracting disasters like that.  The astonishing part is that it’s no longer rocket science to us that an environmental issue like global warming (and all that cause it) could solicit for mayhem from Mother Nature. It’s sad, but I’ve seen more efforts and investments geared towards responding to natural disasters casualties than efforts to minimize the risks of their recurrence and the chaos they can produce.

     Over the past few years I’ve heard about so many catastrophes that I lost count, that’s very alarming. I agree with some of the statements I read: industrialization and unregulated harvesting of natural resources are the smoking guns in those depressing times. We drill, we excavate, we scotch, and we pollute our planet in the name of science and technology to the detriment of our own existence. We should continue on sensitizing the generations that will succeed ours on the dangers that environmental recklessness can pose, perhaps they can devise technologies that are friendlier and more sympathetic to our ecosystem. It kills me when I watched that documentary showing that some penguins being unwittingly floated away from their arctic habitats on ice floes due to climate change. Most of them would perish trying to find their way back home.

      If we do not resort to strict measures against global warming, life on earth as we know it would change drastically for the worst, for all of us. There’s no refuge on earth when Mother Nature is angry, don’t tease her.

Bella,  The world population  is  increasingly growing  and more and more   people who are  in love with nature  choose to live in the path of hurricanes  or build their houses  near the sea or in hilly places, prone to landslides and potential fires in summer . Shall we put the blame on nature, of course not… We are not in control , nature is in control, the solution is  to use common sense to minimize the damage  and enforced  strict  codes of construction  against earhquakes and hurricanes .Other than that ,leave the rest in the  hands of God.    

julito, you might be right but how can we control natural disastors?

 bella,    what I can make it out of your feed  is  that we  should understand that we can not take life and our   wellbeing  for granted , the planet is  plagued with natural and man-made disasters .

Don´t feel queasy , the planet will survive  .... I hope so !!!!   :)))))

hurrican sandy was a real catastrophe. and the reason for the calamities like hurricans, floods, earthquakes is a continious change of climate as global warming. we would certainlly have faced the pits like storms in our life. i’m talking about another ilk of storms which usually zap our lives by hurting us so deeply at different cross roads of life. to lose someone very dear to you is a paradigm seemingly. i think we all are having sojourn in this world perhaps nothing is immortal here. there is an end of everything afterall so our world might be going toward its end. its very distressing i’m feeling queasy.

First of all, I thank Englishbaby for this important and critical topic. When I heard about Hurricane Sandy and I saw it on the news, but also after the earthquake and Tsunami that hit japan on 11 march 2011, I thought, the planet is in danger and USA and china must urgently be aware of the future of our planet and sign the contract for the measures that combat the global warming before it is too late.

Deforestation, carbon dioxide emissions, green gases trapped in the atmosphere… it means, global warming ,and we have a problem here,Hurricanes, glaciers melting down at a fast pace. Mother nature´s way of sayings she has had enough of  humans abusing the planet.If industrilized Nations are not serious about their commitment to reduce emission the future of the planet earth is bleak. In the past ,hurricanes only hit poor caribbean  countries and  some coastal areas in the United states, now we see that big cities like New York and New Orleans  had been  severely  flooded by the combined forces of wind and ocean. 

Heavy! I remembered me watching at the site  www.earthcam.com to the cams New York, to see how Sandy looks like! It was a big ravage.  Hopefully, such a terrible nature attack will never come anymore.  But I don’t think so! The nature is stronger than the Human Being!

Not only hurricane sandy,but drought,flood,tsunami,tornado, to name but a few bring a lot of damage for all living beings.With a help of technological progress the situation on our planet is changed.A lot of problems appeared,and they all  cause the climate change included.

“Mother planet is showing us the red warning light-be careful-she is saying.To take care of the planet is to take care of our own house”-said the Dalai Lama.

Can you imagine our planet without forests,rivers,animals and plant kingdom?-No?Me too.We must take care of nature,because we are part of it.

Definitely it was a horrible hurricane and of course over time we make sure the weather is changing so fast that we can’t keep up with it but we have to realize that the whole world is in real danger and we have to do something about it.