Posted on 11/04/2012 2:45:44 PM PST by Hojczyk
(CNN) -- Kevin Cordova's family tried cooking hot food to stay warm. They wore their winter coats inside and buried themselves under blankets.
But on Sunday, six days after powerful winds from Superstorm Sandy knocked out their power, temperatures dipped so low they couldn't spend another night in their home in Floral Park, New York.
"There's really no amount of blankets that can stop you from being cold in 30-degree weather," said Cordova, 28. "We feel a little homeless right now. We have our house, but we can't really use it."
Officials say thousands of New Yorkers left without heat after Superstorm Sandy hit may need to leave their homes as temperatures plummet, but it's not clear where they'll go.
Residents in the Rockaways, in Queens, vented their frustrations at Bloomberg as he toured the area Saturday. One woman yelled, "When are we going to get some help!" while a man talked about "old ladies in my building who have got nothing."
Supplementing and, in some cases, dissatisfied with the government response, neighbors and volunteers from afar to hard-hit areas over the weekend to offer food, clothing and whatever else to those who are still cold and hungry.
"We covered two children with a blanket freezing and shivering here trying to get food last night," Rockaway resident Lauren O'Connor told CNN affiliate NY1. "We said we had to do something." Dropping temperatures are only one concern the region faces, with the presidential election only days away.
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And Sandy was not even a hurricane.
Imagine if it had been a cat 5 hurricane?
They need to get these people on their way to heated housing. It will be months before they can safely live in their houses again. No one seems to know what the heck their are doing up there. :(
And Sandy was not even a hurricane.
Imagine if it had been a cat 5 hurricane?
They need to get these people on their way to heated housing. It will be months before they can safely live in their houses again. No one seems to know what the heck their are doing up there. :(
And Sandy was not even a hurricane.
Imagine if it had been a cat 5 hurricane?
They need to get these people on their way to heated housing. It will be months before they can safely live in their houses again. No one seems to know what the heck their are doing up there. :(
A cat 5 would have soaked it good then blown it all down too.
I’ve been wondering the same thing, Grams. I, too, remember the shelters set up for Katrina folks at the George R Brown, etc. We saw endless video on the nightly news of the shelters, the people and the (well organized) food and supplies being distributed. Where are the shelters in NY and NJ?
Don’t worry some Yahoo News idiots think this is going to spur the economy.
lolz
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2954833/posts
Same reason they didn’t want National Guard on the street, same reason they wanted to run a marathon.
They want to pretend its all better since Obama dropped by for a photo-op.
In New Jersey things are much more orderly. I live in the bay shore area and got my power back on Friday. I waited on a gas line 4 hours. People here were respectful and waited their turn. The Jersey shore was hit just as hard, if not harder, than NYC. There are no people in the streets freezing. Shelters are set up here everywhere. At mass this morning, our church said not to bring more clothes because they received so much they have no room to store them. The outpouring has been amazing here. Many people on Staten Island don’t want to leave their homes because they fear looting so they stay there and freeze. A lot of the homes flooded on the lower levels so they are gutting the bottom levels and living upstairs. They can’t turn on the power because of all the standing water. These people are truly in a bad way.
They will have a housing problem and it will take a Democrat to make is worse.
Failing to take into account Bloomberg, FEMA and Obama as the ones who will be in charge of recovery is a bad idea.
They made it 10X worse than it should have been.
is = it
True. High wind is insult to injury. Flooding damage is nothing sneeze at, though.
Those people are up the creek unless they figure out how to move on, re-establish themselves and do it NOW. They can’t wait it out in the cold...then possible fires from wiring damage, bacteria and mold when the electric and heat comes back on.
They don’t understand what danger they are in and that they need to move out and come back later to restore their houses. Renters need to just move on permanently.
True. High wind is insult to injury. Flooding damage is nothing sneeze at, though.
Those people are up the creek unless they figure out how to move on, re-establish themselves and do it NOW. They can’t wait it out in the cold...then possible fires from wiring damage, bacteria and mold when the electric and heat comes back on.
They don’t understand what danger they are in and that they need to move out and come back later to restore their houses. Renters need to just move on permanently.
Yes, when you compare modern society to the pioneers we are spoiled and require luxuries. The thing is, there are no more open plains to lay a claim on. How many FReepers would do that in a heartbeat these days, a lot?
Sure they had it much worse in the “olden days”, but those people lived in the olden days None of us grew up thinking that is a normal way of life. Maybe a couple of decades living in a shack without power and running water we’d get used to it, but we wouldn’t like it because we know there is better now.
As much as radical leftists talk about wanting to take away our electricity and gasoline and easy food supply, I don’t think more than a few percent of Americans would agree, and many of them are probably comfortable or wealthy. They’ll be exempt of course.
So, yes, living in a high-rise public housing complex with no power and water is a harsh, horrible thing. These are people who have been brainwashed to government dependence, they probably thought preppers were nuts. Many are waiting for the Mayor’s Nanny Wagons to bring help to this day.
It’s horribly sad.
Maybe on election day FEMA will give them an MRE, a week after the storm. That is the storm response that Obama was praised to the hilt for, a week to get one MRE! If it goes as planned, anyways.
I think many will learn lessons from this, I know I have.
I learned that a Cat 1 storm can be turned into a Cat 10 by lousy leftist politicians more concerned with PR than actually getting things done. Bloomberg wants to put on marathons and concerts and pretend its all better now that Obama came by for a photo-op. He is an elitist snob.
If George W Bush were Governor of NY he would be there with a chainsaw cutting up fallen trees and handing out bottled water from the back of a truck. Something that would lift morale and hopes a lot more than putting on a high-class celebrity-studded party on Times Square.
26 degrees there tonight.
My kids and I, with a couple of clean up crew cooked and served 6,300 pasta meals in the Astrodome in the first two days it was open.. I was exhausted, but happy to do it, and would do it again..
However, I have to say I wanted to kick the Fire Marshal’s A$$, before I was done.. She was always on our butt about the flames from the boiling water on the friggin stoves..
I kept telling her it was WATER, not grease, so chill.. She was dumb as a sack of rocks!
The folks that you would except, were really grateful, and couldn’t thank us enough, the others didn’t even smile, let alone say thank you..
Those liberals should be tasked with feeding and housing their guests in their house until the geusts are able to return home.
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