Why New York City Is the Worst Place for a Hurricane

　  Today I read this article on NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC.

“Why New York City Is the Worst Place for a Hurricane”

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/11/121101-new-york-city-sandy-hurricane-bight-science-environment-nation/

    REFLECTION

I heard that NY will be damaged by Hurricane Sandy. But I couldn’t imagine that NY’s damage is so this bad. Before I read this, I didn’t know that NY’s a lot of facilities were such old as that. As the article said, about 5 hundreds million tons water came to NY by 160km/h. However, this hurricane’s level was Category-one, so this means very weak. But some NY’s landforms were not convenient. These bad landforms were put together, and it happened this damages. I think, there are some reasons which should be covered before about this damage, and especially, people should pay attention to these two points.

First, the sea around NY is shallows. If sea is shallow, the wave becomes high like tsunami on 3.11 Sendai. This theory has been known from the old days.

Second, vital facilities were located along the coast of NY. There were many vital facilities like a hospitals, wastewater treatments, and Wall Street. If someone supposed that high waves came, who couldn’t place these facilities. However, reasons of almost cities’ damages by the natural disaster are to be careless such as this.

I think, old people should remove the vital facilities to anywhere when someone knew that around the NY is shallow, but if who did it, possibly more terrible disaster  will come to there.

5NEW WORDS

landform(noun) : the shape of an area of land

facility(noun) : rooms, equipment, or services that are provided for a particular purpous

shallow(adjective) :measuring only a short distance from the top to the bottom.

vital(adjective) :extremely important and necessary for something to succeed or exist

wastewater treatment(noun) :a facility to clean sewage