The hand-written sign taped to the door at the Red Hook Houses said it all – “WE ARE NOT ANIMALS!”
A full week after Hurricane Sandy came and went, thousands of furious Housing Authority tenants in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan struggled Monday to survive in squalid conditions as NYCHA scrambled in vain to turn on power, heat and water.
“Nobody comes here to help. It’s the land of the lost,” declared a frustrated Ralph Fret, 64, pointing at the black fetid water that remained in the basement of his building - nearly to the ceiling. “You see all that water? You see a pump anywhere? They’re not doing anything.”
As of Monday some 20,000 NYCHA tenants at 108 buildings in 17 projects in Brooklyn, Queens and Lower Manhattan remained in the dark on many levels – living without heat, water, elevators and light but also without word from officials about when things might get back to normal.
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I wonder what they’re doing?
It always mystifies me. Disaster recovery and shelters should only need a supervisory staff. The victims and refuge seekers should provide most of the labor.
No - animals would have been better prepared. Public housing inhabitants are by definition those who made poor life choices and decided that public housing was better than busting their asses working for a living.
Nobody comes here to help. It’s the land of the lost,” declared a frustrated Ralph Fret, 64,
So get off your "frustrated" lazy dead ass and do something for yourself Ralph you useless POS. My sympathy meter for those in public housing who expect their fellow citizens to come and provide them the necessities of life for nothing pegs at zero. This is the 0bama voter entitlement mentality for all to see. "I have a problem. When is somone else going to fix it?" SCREW PEOPLE IN PUBLIC HOUSING! DO SOMETHING FOR YOURSELVES YOU LAZY SH!TS OR FREEZE. And frankly freeze would be best for everyone else.
I reserve my sympathy for the hardworking New Yorkers (even though they most likely will vote for 0bama)who actually lost something that THEY worked for.
I'd be inclined to give those guys a little bit of a break.
When I lived in an apartment, I didn't own a pump suitable for emptying a flooded basement.
Even if one of them did have a pump, where would they get the power to run it?