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Hurrican Sandy - lots of lessons to be learned
The devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy is overwhelming and provides a real life example of how important community response is in reestablishing services to meet basic human needs.
There are a number of articles chronicling stories of personal and community response. Feel free to add ones you find that illuminate the importance of working together and the lessons learned about how to make a community based response more effective.
Here's the first:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/10/opinion/nocera-no-heat-till-chris...
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