Cooperation is key

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Reading “It Must Be Made Safe” gives us another view point in which we can look at the Galveston hurricane; it allows us to analyze the way in which the aftermath of the storm was dealt with.  Many of the citizens in Galveston knew their city was in danger since before the huge hurricane hit; solutions were proposed to fix the surrounding problem before it became a problem but those solutions were never turned into formal plans. No one will know for certain what kept the people of Galveston from taking care of the problem sooner rather than later but its evident that most people blamed the city officials for not taking action. Bixel points out how ” Galveston political leaders were perceived by the white elite of the city to be more ill-equipped than most (Bixel 228).” Local business took the initiative and decided to restructure the way the city’s government was run, changing the way from a democracy to a business. This new method seemed to have worked with a “98 percent turnout (Bixel 234)” to approve the bonds that would be used to pay for the sea wall. In @Jessica42 post she mentions how Issac was the one to blame for the destruction of the city because he had some knowledge about its path but we now know that the citizens of Galveston knew the destruction of their city was eminent. After the storm, people banded together to rebuild their city and protect it against future storms; they used the knowledge of leading engineers, investments from business owners, and bonds to make their dream of a safer city a reality. Galveston can be seen as an example of how different members of a community need to work together to solve a problem, one person or one group isn’t enough. This notion can be amplified to include different levels of government which must work together in times of disaster to help people. If there is no cooperation people will suffer; a recent example of this failure is New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.