Hurricane Sandy Quotes

• Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come. We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather.

  Al Gore

  Dirty, Weather, Energy

  "Sandy puts climate change back on the US election agenda" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2012.

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• Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.

  Russel Honore

  New York, Cities, Two

  "Gen. Honoré: Sandy recovery is stumbling" by Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

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• As soon as I moved to New York, I experienced Hurricane Irene and then Hurricane Sandy hit me in quite a big way. I had 12 days without any electricity or any water. The thing that I realized the most from it was that we've become so dependent on technology. There's so much accessibility to information that suddenly when everything is cut off, you're completely lost, and you start asking deeper and more profound questions - how short life is, and how grateful we should be for things.

  Archie Panjabi

  New York, Short Life, Grateful

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• It's a bit scary to see my book come true: the recent (if minor) LA earthquakes, Hurricane Sandy, the Boston bomber, and so on - much of it stoppable, I think, and yet I, too, am also guilty of passivity.

  Edan Lepucki

  Book, Thinking, Boston

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Hurricane Sandy interrupted Mr. Romney’s momentum and allowed Mr. Obama to look presidential and bipartisan.

  Karl Rove

  Presidential, Momentum, Looks

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