Posted on 11/07/2012 4:55:28 PM PST by Sub-Driver
FEMA centers in New York City closed due to weather
Posted By David Martosko On 5:09 PM 11/07/2012 @ 5:09 PM In DC Exclusives,DC Exclusives - Blurb,Featured,Fox News,Politics,RSS to email,US,Yahoo! Linkbox,Yahoo! News | No Comments
(photo courtesy of DNAinfo.com)
Many New Yorkers likely think Craig Fugate, who runs the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is doing a heckuva job. But he may have some explaining to do after FEMA disaster centers in several sections of New York City suddenly closed up shop Wednesday.
Another storm a dreaded noreaster is on its way, and FEMAs response was to shutter the relief centers that have been some Hurricane Sandy victims sole source of food, water and other supplies. The Red Cross has also cut back on relief services as New York City braces for the next wintry wallop.
Salon reported that Fugate told reporters on a Wednesday conference call that some post-Sandy FEMA facilities and services had to be secured or postponed during the [current] storm. We are going to resume when weather permits.
DNAinfo.com New York visited several FEMA disaster centers and found Closed due to weather signs.
A FEMA facility on Coney Island was among those affected.
The storm is coming. We dont know how hard its going to hit us, Jenny Cartagena told DNAInfo outside that FEMA site. I need some help now.
Non-FEMA volunteers handing out supplies on Staten Island said FEMA buses disappeared Wednesday, and were no longer available as places for New Yorkers with no electricity to get warm.
FEMA packed up and left, volunteer Louis Giraldi told the website.
We dont know where they are, so theres nothing here but us.
To all nobama-supporter pinheads...you deserve what you get.
Although I might have used a couple of poorly disguised swear words, I agree with every word of your post.
The traitors can go eat maggots for all I care.
My neice lives in Bayshore, LI and just got her power back this afternoon. (I live in rural WV and got it back yesterday) Gas is $4.999 she said.
Maybe God thought we haven't been punished enough, yet.
My brother too, in the Rockaways.
I just registered him online with FEMA and got a message back that he was in an unaccessable area ... they’ll get back to him later.
The Long Island Power Authority has the gall or the stupidity to state that just 69 customers were without power yesterday in Rockaway and have removed Rockaway from its outage map.
LIPA doesn’t count people whose homes are damaged and can’t receive electricity as somehow being “without power.”
While their reasoning might make sense in a boardroom somewhere, it does nothing to explain how much in the dark Rockaway really is. The answer right now is almost everyone. That’s roughly the entire population of Hartford, Connecticut.
Here’s a bureaucratic nugget from LIPA’s website: “From the over one million LIPA customers who lost power due to the super storm that affected eight million electric customers along the east coast, 219,000 customers remain without power, excluding those customers in the most severely flooded areas that may currently be unable to receive power.”
Word is that the two towers that provided power to Rockaway burned to the ground.
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