Cities Are the Best Places to Ride Out a Hurricane
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Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Sandy has immobilized NewYork City for two days, with mass transit shut down, power outin many parts of the city, and widespread flooding. At least 10people in the city died as a result of the storm.
Yet it’s worth saying that it could have been much, muchworse. For a lot of modern history, cities were dangerousplaces, prone to acts of God. “In the olden days, you would havehad lots of fatalities,” New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg(founder and principal owner of Bloomberg LP) said on Monday.