The Chicago Heatwave

The Chicago Heatwave was a man made disaster as much as it was a natural disaster. Usually natural disasters should effect everyone. But in the Chicago heatwave, only the poor died or people who lived in high rises. For example in poor neighborhoods where people could not afford air conditioning, families would go out and turn on the fire hydrants to cool down. But unfortunately the water pressure would go down in houses leaving people like the elderly to not have water, killing them their own houses. The rich however have a different story. Contrary to what people have heard from poorer neighborhoods on how surviving the heat wave was a struggle to survive wealthier people only recall the heatwave as being a nuisance. The rich had air conditioning and more running water so they could survive a lot easier than poorer people. These two reasons clearly show that the heatwave was more than a man made disaster then anything.