For medical facilities, Horton suggested elevating critical components, like backup generators, and placing them on higher floors. "There's more we can do in terms of having redundant power systems," he said. "I think another lesson is to highlight and focus on vulnerable individuals, those with pre-existing health conditions."

Still, Occupy Sandy's Goldberg said the city should have done more to prepare, like establishing relief stations in vulnerable areas before the storm rather than trying to get there after roads were underwater and the tunnels were flooded. "It's hard not to put the blame on the city, because there is no way they did not see it coming," he said. "From what I understand, there were warnings from the storm for the weeks leading up to it. It may not be an exact science, but it's a science."

Reprinted from Climatewire with permission from Environment & Energy Publishing, LLC. www.eenews.net, 202-628-6500

2 Comments

1. 1. Oldineluctable 05:52 PM 11/6/12

   'Superstorm Sandy May Have Long-Term Public Health Impacts' NO, really? With Bloomberg pretending to do something and most citizens on thier own, its not hard to believe that there is a long term health concern. BO is too busy with final campaigning and basketball to bother with poor poor New York. He has laready written them in his column on election day. Too bad for New York,like the Latin vote, as soon as he has it its goodby!

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2. 2. julieanderson 04:29 AM 12/14/12

   Hurricane sandy is one of the greatest disaster!Many organizations have come up to help them in many means!More over they are been implementing with new premium and medicare policies!
   http://www.medicareamerica.com/
   

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