Lessons from Sandy: How to Avoid a Second Disaster
Donations of tools: helpful or costly after a disaster?
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Making Good Choices—Will You Give a Hand? Or the Shirt Off Your Back?
Hurricane Sandy tore through the Northeast nearly three months ago. While Congress debates aid funding, millions of people are donating to the victims. Are they making good choices? What choice would you make? Take our poll.
Nonsensical Donations
You probably didn’t choose the last answer in our poll. But these are real items that supposedly well-intentioned people donated after different disasters. Obviously, the victims didn’t ask for them.
Instead, those absurd items needed to be stored or transferred somewhere else. That took time, effort, and money away from helping the victims. Dealing with heaps of unwanted items like these is what relief teams call the...
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