As a Carson City native and 2009 graduate of Carson High School, and currently a senior at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, I have a first hand perspective on Hurricane Sandy that I would like to share with my hometown.Four years in New York with frequent visits to family in New Jersey has given me an appreciation for a commuter culture that routinely requires an hour or more each way to work by bus, subway, car and/or train.The effect of the storm on public transportation, let alone the travesty of closed bridges and tunnels, flooded streets, and lack …


