Relief agencies, businesses, and government are banding together with volunteers and local citizens to rebuild communities hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. Here are some of their recovery efforts:

• Telling those without power what’s happening on their favorite shows
• Electing new government officials to replace waterlogged ones
• Investing in one large sandbag instead of wasting time with many small ones
• Constructing coastal low-income housing as bulwark against future storms hitting their communities again
• Air Wick producing urine-scented aerosol to restore New York City subways to their natural scent
• Fortifying coastal sand castles
• Reerecting the Avalon Woods condo development from the ground up, except for unit 12-B, where those awful fucking Donaldsons lived
• Clearing and replacing downed tree branches with memorial glass tree branches