To the Editor:

As I watched the daily weather reports and news channels approaching Hurricane Sandy’s landfall in the Mid-Atlantic, I somehow had a dreadful feeling that the aftermath of this event would change the landscape of the East Coast forever.

The destruction now seen in the wake of this storm is massive, and with the grace of God, common sense through the wisdom that came from the Katrina fiasco, and our officials, we were fortunate not to have had more loss of life.

I wonder, as many do, how the rebuilding of these properties will take place.

Will those people and businesses be allowed to rebuild, due to the potential of this event happening again? That which was taken by nature was built over many years.

Will new zoning laws now come into effect prohibiting this type of construction again?

Will some corporation buy the lands for a greater public good or will eminent domain be imposed for a greater public good for their profits?

Maybe now, they can get some sense of feeling what it would be like, that our Maine communities be decimated and taken over by corporate greed.

Like Hurricane Sandy, an East-West Utility Corridor would leave a mass of destruction of what once was, never to be revived again.

Maybe they will be required to bulldoze it all under and let the land return to its natural state, while ours will be to bulldoze it over and replace the land with gravel, concrete, steel and pollution.

Eventually, in the end, Nature biding its time, will eventually win again.

Though I feel their pain, maybe, just maybe they will learn from their past mistakes that nature should never be ignored and that if man wishes to live upon this earth, man must learn to co-exist with nature and rein in his desire to dominate the earth that nature owns.

Eric A. Tuttle
Guilford