Apparently runners are the selfish ones...
I live in New York and was displaced from my house for almost a week due to the hurricane. I had no power, water, cell phone service, etc. I just finally got back home today and it was a pretty terrible experience actually.
However what am I getting from the marathon being cancelled?? Absolutely nothing. As far as I can tell from official announcements, there are different resources being used in the marathon vs relief efforts and there is no talk at all about anyone getting their power or houses back because of this cancellation.
So who are the selfish ones... The runners? What do they have to do with this? The people who trained for months, maybe years to get here. The people who raised thousands of dollars for donation to be able to run, who have been waiting for 3 years to finally get in this race or who flew from far away and had to budget and save their own money and resources for this event? Just to get here and find out the race was cancelled b/c of controversy?? No other good reason, just plain image and politics.
After my awful hurricane experience, the last thing I'd want is for another 40,000 people plus their family/friends to be inconvenienced by Sandy.
To me, people who caused the complaints and controversy are the selfish ones. Wishing inconvenience on others just b/c u are in need won't really solve your problem at all... Sure if there were reallyyyy resources from the marathon being used to help hurricane victims would be one thing, but we all know it's a little too late for that.