Plea for underwear on Staten Island

My Fox NY ^ | 11/06/2012 | By LUKE FUNK

[Responsibility2nd]

MYFOXNY.COM - Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro says the people of his community are in desperate need of fresh underwear.

[PMAS]

You would use more gas to get there than its worth.

[Alice in Wonderland]

http://youtu.be/qJLlRg7oKgU

[PMAS]

I’m not sure, he didn’t ask because he already has a tenant.

[CaptainK]

I was south of Merrick Rd on Sunday to check out a friend. One house on the block was knocked off its foundation. The destruction is unreal.

I have a house I could rent, but in NY state, once a renter is in, good luck getting them out if they don’t want to leave.

NY does its part to help make charitable gestures a curse.

[Eva]

I guess that depends on what kind of car you drive. My Volvo gets 27 mpg. Would you have to drive more than 27 miles?

[Roccus]

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.

Commerce is why the NYC area has so many people....going back to colonial times. It has an emense safe harbor that was easily defensable at the Narrows, Governor's Island and the Batterty and in which goods were easily barged around. Once the Erie Canal was completed, loooooong before subways existed, the Greater NY area's fate was sealed as a commercial and population center.
First there was the commerce. Then came the people to service the commerce. THEN came the subways to service the people.

[arasina]

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.

Interesting suggestion. Some in the Orthodox/Hasidic/Frum Jewish community have also suggested that very thing. Read this: The Yeshiva World Mailbag: Far Rockaway Situation Something Out Of Movie…Except It’s Real

One sample of a comment posted there...

"JUST A THOUGHT; What about families adoptig families- albeit temporarily. A chance to catch ur breath, put things down, warm meal, fresh bed, and safe haven for the kids! A chance For the parents to focus on restarting! We just need a person or group to match" up.

Of course there are points that were argued even regarding a temporary solution, but at least it is a start.

[Alice in Wonderland]

Since the ocean and the bay merged, every home has damage.

To add insult to injury, there were major fires in three Rockaway neighborhoods . . .

Breezy Point

Belle Harbor

Rockaway Park

[Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage]

This is why Romney wanted us to bring food and clothing for the Sandy victims.

You can’t eat or wear money.

I donated bags of dog food, something people usually don’t think of.

[Alice in Wonderland]

Remember all those crazy Occupy Wall Street people we lambased when they took over Zuccotti Park? They were the first into the Rockaways with aid.

Check out my ‘about me’ page for more info.

[Eva]

Sometimes all people need is a little relief from the immediate problems to deal with larger, encompassing problems. How can a parent deal with tomorrow, when today is overwhelming?

Volunteers can’t do anything about the long term problems, but they can do something about immediate, every day needs. New York is a very, very wealthy Democrat area. People who live in multi-million dollar apartments and homes, should be able to spare some time and money for others, who are not so fortunate.

[Alice in Wonderland]

We need a “like” button . . .

[Eva]

Wait a minute, five weeks for sub station damage? I live in WA State, within two months of moving here we were hit with what was termed a hundred year storm, 90 mph winds, 15 degree temperatures, 15 inches of snow, topped off with two inches of ice as the storm passed. Sub stations and transformers were popping all over the county and we could see the green explosions from our house. We were without electricity for 5 days and as temperatures warmed, our frozen water pipes burst and we had that to deal with, also. We were some of the last to get power back. Sub stations were the first to be repaired, then transformers and above the ground lines.

We lost power for multiple days three times that year. We were told that utilities avoided burying electric lines because it would put too many electric line men out of work.

[CaptainK]

As I said, it’s a rumor. But the implication was that it’s all water damage from the surge flood.

[CharlesMartelsGhost]

Hurricane Sandy Victims: Where’s Obama? Help arrives from Israel.

You’re probably not aware of it unless you are in the area, but there are a lot of people in the New York City area who lost everything to Hurricane Sandy and still have no food, no water, no electricity and no place to live. President Obama promised to stand behind them, but....

While victims of Hurricane Sandy are begging for more help from the federal government, President Obama is playing politics on the campaign trail.

Let’s go to the videotape (Hat Tip: Memeorandum via Weekly Standard).

In the meantime, some victims of Sandy are getting help from Israel instead.

Israel Flying Aid, the Israeli global humanitarian organization which was first to land in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake, has been distributing large supplies of gas to hospitals, food, batteries and generators to Hurricane Sandy victims.

“We have many years of disaster relief experience,” said Israel Flying Aid North American Operations Manager Moti Kahana.
“Israel Flying Aid, in having Israelis on the ground here in New York and New Jersey, have made Israel the only foreign nation to provide humanitarian assistance to the US during this disaster. We are working in coordination with FEMA, local police, the American Red Cross and Jewish communities in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.”
Kahana said that most of the efforts had been donated by Israelis living in the US and this enabled gas to be distributed to hospitals in New York and New Jersey.
Joel Leyden, an Israel Flying Aid Operations Specialist who was with the IFA in Haiti, has been working with the Greater Hartford Jewish Community to distribute both food and generators on Long Island.
“We had a convoy of food and generators move out of the Greater Hartford area early yesterday morning,” said Leyden.

...

Israel Flying Aid, which is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that assists global communities after earthquakes and other natural and man made disasters, have saved lives in Japan, Haiti, Iraq, Turkey, South Sudan and the US after Hurricane Katrina.
Israel Flying Aid is requesting that all donations be sent to: P.E.F. Israel Endowment Funds Inc., 317 Madison Avenue, Suite 607, New York, NY 10017

Link, with more links embedded: http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2012/11/hurricane-sandy-victims-wheres-obama.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

P.S. Suprised Bumberg didn’t prevent them from aiding due to his love for the parasitic Muslims. By the way where are the followers of the ROP, giving assistance? NO Killing each other and crying Islamophobia? Why YES.

[Eva]

Alice, the wealthy in NYC are Democrats, not Republicans. Wealthy New Yorkers are all about the government taking responsibility for the poor and the needy, spreading the cost across the nation, rather than taking responsibility for their own neighbors.

Until New Yorkers take responsibility for their own, it is difficult to ask the rest of the country to step up and donate. New Yorkers are much wealthier than average Americans.

[Eva]

I have no doubt that it is water damage from the super high tide flood surge. we have had super high tide floods in my county as well as a hundred year storm and numerous other floods. The damage reported by the press is always worse than reality. I don’t mean exactly worse over all, just more limited. For example, two weeks after we moved to WA, a month before the 100 year storm, the town that we moved to was flooded. Everyone were calling us to find out how we made out. We weren’t anywhere near the flooding, but the national news made it seem like the whole town was under water. No disaster is ever as bad as the press makes it out to be.

[Alice in Wonderland]

You're beginning to sound foolish . . .

Actually, the Rockaways are heavily Republican ... both the new congressman who replaced Weiner and the head on NYS’s Conservative Party live in Rockaway. Both lost their homes in the fires.

In my experience, as a former employee of the City of New York, I found most union members vote Democratic because that's what their union reps told them to do. New York is a union town but they are not the wealthy.

And although you think New Yorkers are wealthier than average Americans, the cost of living is much higher there. A pack of cigarette costs more than $10. The toll to cross a bridge between two communities within the same zip code in Queens is $3.25 each way. I was able to buy two properties in Florida when I moved here and my combined mortgages were less than my rent in my 2-bedroom 900 sf apartment in NYC.

[CodeToad]

Nothing but OBama Voters; simply too stupid to live.