In the occurrence of the onslaught of Hurricane Sandy, how do students feel about such a terrible natural disaster that took place in our own United States? Similar to Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Sandy has pummeled the East coast and left thousands homeless and many more injured and unfortunately killed.
The students wandering on Georgia State’s campus seem to have some insight on this issue.
Rachel Anderson, a sophomore, said Hurricane Sandy was pretty bad. She didn’t think something like that would happen up north.
“Maybe somewhere like Louisiana or like Florida,” Anderson said. “You could barely see the housetops. I think it’s going to affect us negatively economically. Even when Katrina came through it affected us. I have never been in such a bad natural situation except for the snow storm that came through years ago.”
Hurricane Sandy ravaged the East coast Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. It slammed New Jersey’s coastline and flooded New York’s subway systems. It killed at least 106 people and left millions of people without power.
The aftermath of the hurricane was devastating. Erika Baik, a sophomore, has family living in New York.
“Some of my family members were affected,” Baik said. “The power went out and the kids couldn’t go to school. My friend goes to school there and weird people were coming to her dorm building. They were strangers. My aunt was unable to work.”
Millions of homes were destroyed and subway stations were flooded. The students at Georgia State have sympathy for our fellow Americans up north and are surprised by the enormity of Hurricane Sandy.
Alex Yi, a junior at Georgia State, said he think Sandy occurring where it did was random.
“Because you never hear about New York or New Jersey getting hit by a hurricane,” Yi said. “Most of my friends were pretty much stuck in their dorms and I know that most of the train stations were flooded. They live in Manhattan.”
The pillage of Hurricane Sandy has created many problems and the oncoming winter storm is making it even harder for people to continue with the clean up of the states affected.
The damage caused by Hurricane Sandy is still being rectified and the response by the government is a bit favorable than that of Hurricane Katrina.
Senior Bridgett Marzett is a part of the Community Response Emergency Team.
“In these kinds of situations the response [is] not as effective as they should be but with this situation, they are being better about it and I feel this is because of Hurricane Katrina.”
