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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“Unless you’ve been through a flood, you have NO CLUE as to what those people are experiencing.”
My family’s lived on the Outer Banks for over forty years, through more hurricanes and devastating storm surges and such than you imagine. We’re seafaring stock that’s lived and sailed and fished along the East Coast going back many generations on both sides. Don’t tell me about having a clue. The clue is to be realistically prepared and to be tough, and these idiots in New York were neither.
You are too full of yourself.
Full of better stuff than you are. Glad not to be you.
You’re hard stock. My family vacationed on the Outer Banks for years and we went through a hurricane there. I’m not sure there are more hard core preppers! I learned a lot.
If people still have a roof over their heads, it is hard for me to understand the lack of preparedness, since they had ample warning. We always have several methods of heat, ability to boil water, water storage, food storage, and lighting.
The hot water tank can be drained for drinking water if needed. Empty Soda jugs could have been filled with drinking water. The bathtub could have been filled with water as well.
I have sterno stove, charcoal grill, wood pit, coleman camping stove, and a fire place to use for cooking. Also a generator and several containers of fuel, a kerosene heater too. I have coleman lantern, oil lamps, kerosene lamps, candles, led lights and batteries.
We often have electrical outages in the summer and winter here in our area, and when my Dad was alive, he was on oxygen 24/7, and we were all electric. Not being prepared could have had a really sad outcome. I don’t understand not doing contingency planning for the worst.
Those people whose houses burnt or washed away, I can understand, but I do NOT understand Bloomie denying help from the National Guard. My prayers for all those impacted.
Just glad I don’t live in New York, the governor and mayor don’t seem to have a very organized plan either.
About that hot shower: When I was a kid on granny’s farm (no running water or indoor facilities).
We took hot showers in an old galvinized tub on the enclosed back porch. Heated up water in a tea kettle, poured it into a 2-3 gallon water can with sprinkler nozzle, added cold water to the right temperature.
Step into the tub. Lather up your hands or washrag with soap. Wash all over. Use the water can to wash off all the soap. Didn’t last that long, but it was great while it lasted. LOL.
In between bath/shower night the tub hung on the outside wall over a nail and we used an old fashined metal wash basin for nightly clean ups.
What I hated the worst was visiting the outhouse in the winter. BRRRRR.
LOL. I heard That! We did buy a bedside potty chair for my Dad before he died. We decided to keep it just in case of sewer backup, so we would have a backup plan for the flush toilet too. A little here and a little there, and we are in better shape than many.
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