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Anonymous Coward User ID: 19011623 United States 11/05/2012 10:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It's good to hear a first hand account. You're right..the media isn't reporting squat. I've just heard what's actually going on from friends who have family there. I tried telling my mom that things were worse than they are reporting and she chewed me out saying I was buying into the media hype. Umm.... One positive thing I've seen is requests on Facebook for individual families. If you can get a hold of friends in other areas with lists for individual family needs I bet you can get more help than what will just be sent to you. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 27057788 United States 11/05/2012 10:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | thanks for the response yes please check out the facebook threads and help out anyone you can. FEMA is doing a lot through their DRC's but they are only in nassau county which is weird since it represents less than half of the island. One of the other big problems is the gas issue there is no gas here on LI people are waiting 2 -3 hours to get gas and the stations sometimes run out before they get it. I know they are talking about jersey but they will have it before us. I am an EMT so I was able to skip the line because they are making sure fire ems hospital workers cops etc are mobile if needed but my wife was on empty and had to sit 2 1/2 hours with the kids in the car just so shed be able to go food shopping and to work. My neighborhood fared well lots of trees and power is still out for many after 6 days but the south shore is decimated. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 27057101 United States 11/05/2012 10:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | thanks for the response yes please check out the facebook threads and help out anyone you can. FEMA is doing a lot through their DRC's but they are only in nassau county which is weird since it represents less than half of the island. One of the other big problems is the gas issue there is no gas here on LI people are waiting 2 -3 hours to get gas and the stations sometimes run out before they get it. I know they are talking about jersey but they will have it before us. I am an EMT so I was able to skip the line because they are making sure fire ems hospital workers cops etc are mobile if needed but my wife was on empty and had to sit 2 1/2 hours with the kids in the car just so shed be able to go food shopping and to work. My neighborhood fared well lots of trees and power is still out for many after 6 days but the south shore is decimated. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27057788 Brother I beg you if you have the ability GET OUT OF THERE. It's going to get MUCH WORSE. There is a deep deep cold coming...and many people are predicting a massive earthquake that will cause a tsunami on the East Coast. Either way, the east coast is gone. That's why FEMA isn't even helping. They are waiting for it to get wiped out completely and don't want to waste their money. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 27057788 United States 11/05/2012 10:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | one thing I can say is that there has been limited looting. At this point in New Orleans even the cops were looting. It really shows the difference in the type of people out there. The rockaways and long beach are having problems but thats about it and it isn't wide spread just here and there. People on long beach who shouldnt even be staying there with no heat, water, sewage, electric etc are hanging signs that say I am home and I am armed. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 27057788 United States 11/05/2012 10:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | any questions from anyone about whats going on? I'll try to answer. My brother in a LT in FDNY and he told me lower manhattan is trashed like the say and that queens brooklyn are also a wreck near the shores. He hasn't been ti Staten island which was supposedly really destroyed as well half the areas deaths were there. |
waterlily User ID: 19961452 United States 11/05/2012 11:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thanks so much for accurate information. Really appreciate it. *********** WaterLily *********** " Do I dare Disturb the universe?" -- T. S. Elliot, Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ************************************* “We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.” -- Jorge Luis Borges ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Pompey made his preparations for the war at the end of the winter, entered upon it at the commencement of spring, and finished it in the middle of the summer." -- Cicero, De Imperio Cn. Pompei |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 27026693 United States 11/05/2012 11:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I grew up in a sleepy little town in England, although my husband has told me stories about the Rockaways, I feel awful being all warm and cosy and fed whilst they are there suffering. I want to get hold of her and offer to meet her somewhere on the outskirts of the city with gas. I cannot imagine the fear and worry she must be feeling. Good luck to you all and I will keep spreading the word to get help to you guys. |