http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/far-from-unthinkable_b_2192873.html?utm_hp_ref=green
In 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 decision-making and lack of preparation that allowed it to
inflict such suffering and devastation. "In the end," they write, "a
pell-mell, 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."
