Posted on 11/04/2012 8:56:52 PM PST by Jyotishi
o Residents claim they are the 'forgotten victims' of Sandy
o Also say that lack of power and law enforcement means more looting and violent crime
o Those in stricken areas stockpiling weapons like kitchen knives, machetes, and bats to protect themselves
o Coney Island residents say they are forced to 'scavenge for food like animals'
o Power unlikely to be returned to Brooklyn, Queen's and Staten Island until sometime next week
Almost one week after superstorm Sandy struck the East Coast with its ferocious force, power was still out to some 2.5 million customers due to damages, down from 3.5 million on Friday, the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability claimed.
The state with the largest number of outages by far is still New Jersey with 32 percent of customers without power, it said it a report.
And as the lights begin to flicker on in Lower Manhattan, nine percent of customers across the state of New York still do not have power, followed by seven percent in Connecticut
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Well I think Farrakhan lives here in Chi.
Charlie Rangel?
NYC Councilman Charles Barron?
This is Wolf Blitzed reporting, after the break our Panel will skewer President Bush on Hurricane Sandy which was obviously caused by his friends Big Oil and Karl Rove, then we'll be back in the next segment discussing how President Bush the Draft Dodger should be executed for killing those poor guys in Benghazi.
In the meantime, let's cut away to Obama’s Victory Celebration being held at the World's Largest Mosque. After the ritualistic burning of the Sarah Palin Effigy, President Obama will slaughter a Republican Goat using a Solyndra powered electric Chainsaw. Don't forget to make the kiddies watch..
“Sounds third world-ish to me .”
It is.
Senate candidate, Wendy Long, suggested, if feasible, looking into putting people on cruise ships.
My in-law in L.I. just got his power back, too.
Hope your relative w/o power gets his back soon. Do they have shelters in the area?
BTTT.
Wrong. True.
Impy, I kind of fired that one off without a thought of who else. You got me there. I don’t see a real vile tough guy these days. Most of these guys are motor mouths who haven’t had to back it up for decades. Vile? Sure. Tough enough to back it up? Nah.
One sock to these glass-jaws, and they’d go down lying about what just took place.
Al is probably as good as anyone. Perhaps something will come to me later, but so far I’m drawing a blank.
Uh, yeah, but the fact is we have enough work here, and are not threatened in any way. These guys came to help and we are greatful. As a matter of fact we are hiring 970 employees.
Once again, I respectfully insist these stories are WRONG.
I know someone who lost a friend in Rockaway, her friend drowned
the place is overrun by hoodlums, no police near by, people hiding in homes
This story today appears to refute the IBEW denials.
The ONLY thing we have demanded (NYC/Westchester Con Ed), is that their wages be stepped up to ours while here.
My third cousin still does not have power. He lives on the north shore of Long Island, in the Suffolk County community of Northport.
His wife went to stay with one of their adult daughters who has power. My cousin commutes to his office in New Jersey every week day, by train. I don’t know if there are shelters in his area....he’s only home at night anyway.
He used to work on the 91st floor of the south tower of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, but transferred to a New Jersey office a couple of years before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. A number of people he used to work with lost their lives that day. He was there in February, 1993 during the original terror attack planned by the blind sheikh.
bttt
“..is that their wages be stepped up to ours while here.”
Why is that?
Still no power for us...at least three more days...ran a cord across the street to a neighbor who has juice...running the fireplace insert blower so we have some heat and running a TV/dvd player for the kids...could be worse...and my phone as wifi.
Fairness
” He would probably run as a rat, like John Lindsey before him.
I actually think there is a good chance he might, and he could win the rat nomination.”
Not good. He is used to using his own money to buy elections.
” Goldman was Obama’s #2 contributor (second only to U of Cal.) in 2008. See Bought and Paid For: The Unholy Alliance Between Barack Obama and Wall Street by Charles Gasparino. “
read it, thanks.
” One sock to these glass-jaws, and they’d go down lying about what just took place.
Al is probably as good as anyone. Perhaps something will come to me later....”
Al Sharpton to D. O. “ Resist we much!”
DO (right hook) W H A P P
Al (rubbing jaw) “Maybe you gotta real point there....”
;^)
Told ya...
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