After Sandy, is New York Ready for More Extremist Shocks? : The New Yorker

After Sandy, is New York Ready for More Extremist Shocks? : The New Yorker:

"The new normal will require large-scale public investment to protect New York from extremist shocks. Even with those investments, we who volunteer during the next few decades to share the city’s risks in exchange for access to its thrills would be advised—if the empty shelves of my neighborhood Rite-Aid and grocery store are any guide—to think a little further ahead about our private supplies of D batteries, bottled water, and tuna fish. There are more days to come when we will be on our own."