CMcGuire: Moral Economy
Connie McGuireThe sign pictured talks about 3 heroes. A moral economy of COVID-19: Essential workers are called heroes in order to justify the risks they must take with their lives.
The sign pictured talks about 3 heroes. A moral economy of COVID-19: Essential workers are called heroes in order to justify the risks they must take with their lives.
The Jersey shore especially was vulnerable to a storm of this capcity, and showed how unprepared for the storm they were after the clouds settled. The boardwalk itself was obliterated and homes and roads were floodded. In New York, most train tranporttaion was halted as many of the lines had to undergo maintenance to bring it back to operating status.
They have worked to improve the city of Newark in their resilience to server storms.
A new 'switching site' was build to ensure less people would lose power in a disasterous storm like Hurricane Sandy.
The communities of New Jersey was not ready for this powerful stomr that knocked power out widespread across the state. They were vulnerable to all things as no agency took the natural steps to protect its people who were hit by the storm.