Something tells me it will all be rebuilt - much “better” than ever - things like this are always a boon to gentrification projects and enhanced commercialism.
Part of me wonders whether they ever should rebuild some of these areas. New Jersey has a number of developed places where you couldn’t build anything under today’s restrictions related to flood plains.
Something tells me it will all be rebuilt - much “better” than ever - things like this are always a boon to gentrification projects and enhanced commercialism.
1. Since I’ve moved to KY we’ve had some serious storms here. Two of the large buildings I pass every day on my way to work were on one side of the freeway when I went to work, and were “mostly” on the other side of the freeway when I went home.
2. Two days ago I watched a History Channel documentary about the 1938 nor’easter.
What made this storm so impressive was simply how many people it affected. But I don’t see it that way. I don’t see the human race as numbers. I see it as individuals. A tragic death in one family is just as bad as a tragic death in a hundred families.
“things like this are always a boon to gentrification projects and enhanced commercialism.”
You need a gentry to support gentrification, and you need return on investment to support commercialism.