Amanda Ripley Author of The Unthinkable

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Disaster Virgins

Why do we experience each disaster as if it were our first disaster?

Each time, reporters like myself cover floods and fires and storms as if they have never happened before...as if we aren’t wearing the exact same Wal-Mart slicker we got two years ago in Florida. We survey the damage, we speculate on the causes and we scour the government for someone to blame.

We treat regular people with the same fresh eyes, marveling at their resourcefulness each and every time. I noticed a classic example recently in the New York…

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