Posted on 11/01/2012 2:29:58 PM PDT by jimbo123
‘We are Katrina’ says one desperate resident. ‘Everyone cares about Manhattan. No one is looking out for us.’
At a 12-unit apartment building at West 23rd near Mermaid Avenue in Coney Island, several tenants are huddled together in one room where human waste is spilling out of the toilet. They need help, and are at a loss explaining why assistance is getting to them faster.
"We have no food or water. Why isn't anyone helping us," asked tenant Aeising Cancel.
"We are scavenging for food like animals," said another tenant Jeffery Francis. "We are in a crisis and no one will help us. Look at us. We are misery. Everyone cares about Manhattan. No one is looking out for us. Nothing. We are Katrina."
At an apartment building at 3024 W 23rd the power is still out and residents are out of food.
"The food is gone. We are scrapping for food. One person found a sandwich and we split it four ways," said resident 58-year-old Albert Miller
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
I don’t understand why folks don’t have ample supplies of canned goods, and bunson burners or Coleman stoves to cook, along with water.
the canned goods should always be in the cupboard, and then on the weekend they should have been filling their water jugs..
GREAT QUOTE! I think I might have hear something like it before. ;-)
Look what is happening right before your eyes and take heed.
You either prepare and stand on your own beholden to no one or you become dependent on others to provide your basic needs and become thier‘serf’. Me I don’t want to be beholden to anyone for providing what is needed for me and mine. I certainly don’t want to have to kiss some ‘gubberment’ third class bureaucratic to try and coax some help from them, I don’t want some ‘jack booted’ thug herding me in line and telling me where to stand, sit, eat or sleep. And last but not least I don’t want to be shut up in with a bunch of ‘zombies’ and have to worry about not only trying to get basic necessities but having to fight to keep what I manage to get.
Its your choice you can prep or you can isn’t that better than stand around on a bridge waiting for FEMA to bring you a bottle of water, a MRE, a warm banklet and a kiss for your boo-boo and maybe you can even get your picture as you stand there on the national news.
For those who are just starting or are old hands at prepping you may find my Preparedness Manual helpfull. You can download it at:
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For those of you who haven’t started already it’s time to prepare almost past time maybe. You needed to be stocking up on food guns, ammo, basic household supplies like soap, papergoods, cleaning supplies, good sturdy clothes including extra socks, underwear and extra shoes and boots, a extra couple changes of oil and filters for your car, tools, things you buy everyday start buying two and put one up.
As the LDS say “When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”
Or as the bible says: A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
NIV Proverbs 22:3
“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger.
Underestimation can be fatal.”
Especially living in dense urban areas shouldn’t people be more prepared in the wheels fall off (or anything else falls off for that matter.) It would only be prudent. The cascade of collapse in those areas is very close at all times...and very quick. Enough compassion. If any of them voted LIB, DIM or nobama...best of luck, you fools.
“To lazy to flush the tiolet with waste water? There’s friggin water everywhere.”
You don’t know how sewers work? It just comes back up when the sewers are overloaded.
Heinlein is one of my favorite authors. My favorite books are Time Enough for Love (I think that is the book you quote from) and its sequel, To Sail Beyond the Sunset.
-— The only thing missing........no 24/7 unhinged journalists demanding to know how Bush let this happen. -—
No kidding. My wife told me that Zero’s approval is 50% now.
We have to take out the greatest enemy of the republic, the enemedia. And we CAN do this by boycotting national news programs.
Spread the word to your conservative friends: do NOT watch MSM news programs, even out of curiosity. Starve the beast.
We could probably eat well for 3-4 weeks on just what’s in the cupboards, not to mention other preps. We had a blizzard once when I was a kid where we had no electricity for 3 days or so in cold winter weather. No big deal.
I do feel for all those who have suffered during this storm. But it’s hard to believe people would be out of food after just 3 days.
They may not know that.
I don't know about the outlying suburbs but the sanitary drains in Manhattan go directly into the rivers with no treatment. Can you imagine the "water hammer" shock when you flush a blivey from 100 stories up when it meets the elbow on it's way to the Hudson?
Regards,
GtG
Not that easy. When the sewers get backed up where is the water going to go? That's why it overflows in the first place. Even after the water recedes the whole sewer line is likely clogged with debris. Have to do what they did in the olden days, use the bucket and pour the "night soil" out the window.
He also mentioned how they're not reporting what the Red Cross has raised this time, like they gave constant totals with Katrina. (I think it has to do with the numbers are much lower, with Sandy - at this point, than Katrina...possibly due to the economy.
How often is New York shut down by snow?
47%. Remember that figure?
Yeah, that's the ticket! And if their house catches fire, the FDNY should first ask who they voted for. Sheesh.
Have none of these people ever emptied a mop-bucket into the toilet?
“When you are a grown up...you look out for yourself.”
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I’m in MA and am alone and could have gone about 2-3 weeks with what I stashed. We were lucky,though.
The backed up plumbing thing would be awful.
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But people are weird when it comes to water. I was standing on a levee with a guy that owned a store. A trickle came over in a low spot, so he took some shovels full of dirt from the top of the levee and tossed them on the breach. He was genuinely surprised when his hole started filling with water.
The TODAY show had a piece after one of the Mexican hurricanes. There was a guy standing in nearly chest deep water as far as the eye could see, poking a stick at a drain, trying to clear it.
—— Coleman stoves to cook, along with water. ——
And they’re using gas stoves to heat their apartments. Just wait until one of these buildings catches fire. It will go up like a bomb.
Residents need to get the hell out NOW. Walk anywhere. Just get the hell out.
No cell phones?
While I understand cell phones can sometimes make life easier, I can’t help but think if these people had spent ONE TENTH AS MUCH on some stand-by supplies over the years as they spent on cell phones, for most people, this would not be anywheres near as bad...
It’s now 3 days after the storm
By the 4th day after Katrina, Bush’s administration had marshalled the rescue of over 20,000 people from flooded enighborhhods to the SuperDome, and then witin 3 days after that, the evacuation of almost 40,000 people from New Orleans
where is Barry?
Oh wait, he inherited such a mess...
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