Perhaps Zer0 needs to do a flyover to get Sandy's New York victims pumped.
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 ...
if romney wins i predict the media will abandon odumba and give a full and accurate reporting of sandy (note, NOT being sarcastic), because once the battle is lost they now chase sensationalism and ratings.
> Where’s Obama?
There’s No-Bama.
Worse than Katrina? BS.
If Romney wins, and it is beginning to look like he will, we’ll have to reduce the influence of the liberal media.
Checking in from Long Island. I still have no power (I’m writing this from my father’s kitchen table). Thankfully, we have a fireplace and have been able to cook and keep warm because of it.
I’ve seen no looting here, but a lady from my church showed up at Mass today shaking, crying and very, very frightened. She’d been on a line at the gas station for three hours when an irate man rammed her car, got out and threatened to kill her and burn down her house if she didn’t let him cut in front of her — and this is in my own very quiet neighborhood!
Meanwhile, my cousin in Staten Island is now sleeping on his couch with a shotgun in his lap because of the lawlessness he’s seen there. (Our own shotgun is also ready to go, BTW.)
Thankfully, no one I know has been hurt, but many of my friends have severely damaged homes. Most of those were from falling trees, but one had the ocean march across more than two miles of (flat) land to flood her entire first floor.
EVERY block I’ve seen has at least one large tree down, and wires are hanging everywhere. It looks like a war zone around here.
Regards,
6 Days.....Oh please....Ike....14 days! Absolute nightmare!
A bump and my best to you.
Perhaps Zer0 needs to do a flyover to get Sandy's New York victims pumped.
I can understand the power outage problems and those of roadways and railways/subways, but the problems are excaberated by the labor unions who will not permit “free” workers to help.
Failure to deliver water, food, toilet paper and blankets, as a minimum, are problems that are unforgiveable!
Aren’t there helicopters in the area that could take in supplies of needed things? ....I’ve seen ZERO coverage of any choppers delivering supplies.
Totally disorganized recovery effort.
When asked about FEMA’s response, Obama replied, “I...Uh, I...I...uh, uh...I mean, just let me...uhm, say...... GREAT JOB, Craig!”
The Media Mother Fx@kers need to be called OUT!
Ban if you must Moderators. I can’t help myself!
We lost power for about 60 hours a couple of years ago as the result of an ice storm. Folks just to west of us lost power for weeks. 60 hours, even in winter is very doable, not a major problem, if you can get to a working gas station. We didn’t see any looting or lawlessness.
I recall crews came down from Quebec and their little red octagonal signs said “ARRÊT”, unlike in Paris, France, (also a French speaking city) where they say “STOP”.
You may have already found it, but BuckeyeTexan set up a 'check in' thread for our fellow FReepers like yourself who were knocked incommunicado by this.
Northeast FReepers Please Check In
Might help dull a bit of the sense of isolation that's likely hovering about.
Take good care and be well . . .
Have a sister and brother a half mile apart in Shirley, Suffolk County, L.I. This county is the one about half way out on Long Island.
They were spared.
Sister-in-law in East meadow, Nassau County, still has no power, or did not as of Sat. 11-3.
But they’re able to eat at a diner, and spend some hours with a daughter 10 miles away.
Terrified of thinking of themselves as racists for criticizing a black man.
Tak care of yourselves,,,
From Alabama.
If they have water pressure it is bearable. I lost electricity for 11 days due to Hurricane Isabel and it was hard to get water form my well. No water and no electricity really sucks.
Comparisons to Katrina are inevitable.
Maybe Bloomberg will do the GOP a favor ny running as the Dem POTUS nomineee in 2016.
How are those "strict gun ownership laws" working out for you folks (not you, Jyotishi...generic New York "you")?? It appears to me that the crooks still have guns, and the law-abiding do not.
Schadenfreude.
Doesn't THEIR Walmart have the Windham Weaponry SRC 16 AR-15 for $799?
Or perhaps they are temporarily out?
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