Posted on 11/06/2012 10:42:29 AM PST by ExxonPatrolUs
One week since “Frankenstorm” Sandy hit the northeastern United States, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg projects twenty to forty thousands New Yorkers. Residents on the Rockaway Peninsula are complaining about the lack of help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). A posting at Occupy Sandy Stories described, “Many Staten Islanders feel their borough is being overlooked and ignored by authorities.”
The denunciation of the Red Cross by Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro, covered by “Democracy Now!”, largely affirms this feeling of neglect permeating the community...
…I’ve got to tell you, as the borough president of Staten Island, of a half-a-million people, I am disappointed at some of these not-for-profit organizations that collect lots and lots of money from Staten Islanders and didn’t respond, and one of them being this American Red Cross. I have not seen the American Red Cross at a shelter. I have not seen them down south shore, where people are buried in their own homes, have nothing to eat, have nothing to drink.
Red Cross: All your donations are belong to us, and muslim charities...
Staten Island Bureau president slammed them hard, he told people not to give them a dime
I have been down to the south Shore of Long Island in Atlantic Beach and Long Beach several times since the storm (I have family that live down there) and it is an utter disaster down there - barely any FEMA or Red Cross.
Call Salvation Army or World Vision...
Call Salvation Army or World Vision...
We took care of our family, I was refering to the lack of supplies and help for others
They were the first into the Rockaways, along with some Sikhs, and have setup aid/food stations in at least three places:
*at 113th Street & Rockaway Beach Boulevard
*on the Boulevard between 95th Street and 94th Street
*at the old abandonded firehouse on Beach 59th Street.
They're climbing up to 21 flights, in unlit stairwells, in some of the worse public housing projects in the city, bringing blankets and supplies to the eldery trapped on the upper floors. I wouldn't set foot in those buildings; they either have more guts than I or they are very naive.
I figured you took care of your family....for others information
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