VANITY: Can anyone name the countries that sent aid to the United States after Hurricane Sandy?

Can anyone name the countries that sent aid to the United States after Hurricane Sandy?

I am asking this because I got an e-mail from a friend that I am trying to fact check. Here it is ...

As you know, America is always the first country to send aid to other countries when they are in trouble. It is highly appropriate that we Americans, must now send our "THANKS" to all those countries that reciprocated our help with their disasters, misgivings, social turmoil, & poverty when they returned to the USA monetary and physical help after Hurricane Sandy 2012 ravaged our East Coast leaving behind many dead people, the massive destruction, the countless homelessness and pure disaster in the east.

We have listed all the Countries and World Organizations below that are giving us their gracious assistance. Please assist is in thanking these entities by passing on this email so people all over America can join in and THANK our many neighbors, to whom this nation has invested BILLIONS and BILLIONS!!!!

NOBODY !! - NOT ONE - NADA - NILL - NON - NUN - NYE Maybe now Americans will realize that charity should begin at home.

With millions of our own country people in need and in poverty, let's save our money and spend it at home instead of sending it to Egypt , Libya , Pakistan , etc........

Staten Island and parts of New Jersey would gladly thank America if we spent the billions of dollars there that originally came from my pocket and yours...... oh yeah - THANK YOU FOR SENDING THIS ON !!!

it was a CAT ONE... get over it and rebuild.

seriously, wtf. yes, some houses got flooded and some were washed away. yes, there was flood damage. you didn’t prepare properly or observe proper building codes to insure a 10-20 ft storm surge wouldn’t wreck your stuff

come to Florida and see how much attention a cat one gets from the fedgov and other countries.
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India Takes Over NASA’s Defunct Satellite to Track Sandy

IndianExpress.com
November 2, 2012

Ocean surface winds for Hurricane Sandy observed at 9:00 p.m. PDT Oct. 28 by the OSCAT radar scatterometer on the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) OceanSat-2 satellite.

Image credit: ISRO/NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA and weather and climate scientists all over the world have been receiving help from India’s Space Applications Center (SAC) to track Hurricane Sandy. The Indian Space Research Organization’s OSCAT radar scatterometer, which travels on board its OceanSat-2 satellite, has been sending valuable image data at near-real time to NASA and NOAA.

OSCAT, designed and developed at SAC, Ahmedabad, is similar to the now defunct QuikSCAT satellite from NASA. Since QuikSCAT ceased operations in 2009, engineers and scientists from NOAA, JPL and NASA have worked with ISRO to validate and calibrate OSCAT measurements to ensure seamless coverage of ocean vector winds, critical for the global climate weather forecasting field.

ISRO’s OceanSat-2, together with NASA’s Cloudsat satellite and Aqua and Terra spacecraft, played a critical role in helping track Superstorm Sandy.

Tags: NASA, ISRO, Weather Satellite, Hurricane, NOAA

http://www.satellitetoday.com/curatedcontent/39852.html

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