Blanking the beach quote sandwich

     In this blog I am going to talk about New York's response to Hurricane Sandy and the article Blanking the Beach. I believe New York's response to Hurricane Sandy was inadequate. The reason I believe it was inadequate is because the true victims of Hurricane Sandy are still living in shelters and public housing. The victims aren't getting the help they need. In the book Blanking the Beach by Naomi Klein she talks about the after effects of a natural disaster. Naomi Klein states "The buffer zone looked like little more than an excuse for the government to do what it had wanted to do before the wave" (Klein 67).  A buffer zone is when you have a neutral area separating two things , similar to how we have personal space or how oceans separate countries they both serve as a type of buffer zone. The government used the tsunami that hit Sri Lanka as an excuse to keep the people off the beach and build hotels where their homes used to be. The government used the buffer zone to there advantage. The buffer zone is important to New York's experience to Hurricane Sandy because they can use the buffer zone as a reason to keep people away from living there and then go and build hotels or condos in the near future. The government is aware of the rising sea levels so they can use Hurricane Sandy to there advantage to legally keep the people away.  The government would make a lot more money by replacing those houses with 5 star hotels and luxury condos.