Posted on 11/06/2012 11:55:11 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
Edited on 11/06/2012 4:20:35 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
MYFOXNY.COM - Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro says the people of his community are in desperate need of fresh underwear.
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxny.com ...
And keep canned goods in your pantry.
Did some checking on the NY/NJ Climate and there's a clue about why this area has so many millions of people ~ first off, disasters don't happen often, certainly not annually. Secondly, they have a subway system, lots of rail, that sort of thing.
So, when the disaster ultimately arrives and they have to live like other Americans they find out they are simply not prepared, and they drop to their knees and wail.
They probably do imagine there's an invisible godlike being called 'government' that's there to help them ~ like it helps everybody else, but that's not how it works.
This is the part of the world that keeps Wal-Mart out so no underwear for them!
I sympathize with these people, would even volunteer to help them if I lived near-by. What I can’t understand is why the wealthy New Yorkers and New Jersey residents who weren’t impacted by the storm are not helping them and I don’t mean by running concerts or benefits, I mean going down there on the street and finding out what those people need and getting it for them.
Think what could be achieved if wealthy NYers each adopted a family in need and bought them some clothes and shoes, and some containers to store them in.
My guess is that many of these destroyed residences were not owner occupied. There is no rush to get the places fixed because the owners are waiting for the insurance settlement.
I just heard from a friend who works for a business in Oceanside. The rumor going around now is, no electricity in the area for at least 5 weeks because of substation damage.
Funny you say that. I shipped a lot of care packages from our National Guard post office when we had people on deployments. One thing they usually asked for was underwear.
I was in the TX National Guard for almost 40 years. We had an Emergency Operation Center (OEC) that was in communication with the DPS and other state agencies. We loaded many a truck with pallets of water, MREs, generators and other supplies. The OEC would designate where they would be dispatched to about 48 hours before landfall.
I remember when Ike hit and the fuel tankers were dispatched to IH 10 coming out of Houston only to find out the fuel nozzles were too big to fit into the unleaded openings on the tank fillers.
Me neither ... but I think of it as a Florida thing.
I live right over there, it is a nightmare and it is getting really cold.
FEMA called my one of my co-workers who rents out a house in the next town - they wanted to know if it was available and offered $3,600 a month without utilities.
We were talking about that earlier today ~ the spouse and myself ~ and decided the images we're getting look a lot like a New York garbage strike a couple of weeks on ~ but without all the black trash bags. New Yorkers are probably good for a couple of months just as long as it keeps the stuff chilled, but if it starts to rot they'll be crying for real.
From the article: Molinaro says that people can bring underwear to Miller Field on Father Capodanno Blvd. or New Dorp Lane.
Read more: http://www.myfoxny.com/story/20015067/plea-for-underwear-on-staten-island#ixzz2BTqAn7KN
That is all I know, and sort of in a mini-crisis at work, so cannot research further at this time.
LOL! That’s the first thing that came to my mind. It’s a crazy world when you’re doing word association, and your first response to “used underwear” is “Clinton”.
There is no gasoline to get anywhere - 4 to 6 hour lines IF the station has gas.
This thread is worthless without pictures.
4-6 hour line, but how far do you have to drive to get gas outside of the storm impacted area?
4-6 hour line, but how far do you have to drive to get gas outside of the storm impacted area?
You are probably too young to remember the Carter gas lines. Every other day gas and very long lines. My husband traded cars with me every day so that I had to spend every day in those lines. The first time he made me take his car, he forgot to give me the key to the gas cap. On top of that, he his car was a Camaro, we lived a mile back on an unpaved road and it was snowing every couple of days.
Was that for FEMA employees or the homeless?
During Hurricane Ivan FEMA rented entire gulf-front condos in the Destin area to house their employees who were making damage assessments in the panhandle.
My guess is that you are wrong.
If the home is owner occupied and not insured for flood damage, that is because the city didn’t do an adequate job of defining flood zones. Banks require flood insurance on mortgaged homes in flood zones.
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