Bitter cold inside a disaster shelter...."We got f--ked!"

I hope you lose everything someday in a disaster, and then maybe you'd have half a heart.

Having heat/ GOOD shelter is something that every person should have, period. This is ridiculous.

Are you drinking the kool aid being served by Gov. Cuomo?

...Said the corporate douche.


Not everyone is edumacated or has even the opportunity to have enough money to prepped. Not all of them are "white trash" either, a lot of actual working middle class people in there. When your house gets flooded and shit blows all over the place it doesn't matter. YOu're homeless for the time. These shelters are death traps. And they are also designed to get people ready for prison camp style living for the po'.

I agree I don't give a fuck no more them libturds drank the kool-aid NJ to bad

what a sweetie

WHAT IS WRONG WITH EVERYONE....????? We have seen numerous disasters over the years and its very very clear that we have to have a personal plan in place. One needs to have several days of supplies on hand, blankets, flashlights, solar radio's, an emergency kit....to get you through the first days. It is absolutely impossible to mobilize mass support immediately. Think about it before you start moaning and groaning about the situation you might find yourself in. How does that help anyone?

You also have to have a plan about when to get your butt out of the area and find shelter elsewhere. You cannot sit there having a pity party waiting for someone to put you in a luxury hotel. It doesnt work like that.

I saw a newsclip on CNN the other night about a family just sitting in their battered home waiting for someone to tell them what to do. They were exhausted and cold. But they made no attempt to take their children out of harms way and leave the disaster zone behind. They claimed that there were looters in the area. SO WHAT? Youre home is uninhabitable, whatever remains is not worth protecting. So, gather up what might be meaningful and go. Be responsible and stop whining. You arent the only person having this experience. And do not expect to be rescued.

And do not consider rebuilding in the same place. Climate change is real and it does not make sense to try and recreate homes/businesses in an area that could be wiped out anytime.

Sandy is a wake up call....one of many we have had over the past years. Be prepared for anything.... Be responsible for yourself and your family.

FEMA tricked them to begin with by saying to store 3 days food and water while knowing damn well they could not adequately respond to a widespread disaster in that short time.

He's a republican which means a majority of voters in NJ elected him so it can't be that everybody in NJ is a libtard.

FEMA tricked them??? If they are so stupid and incompetent they need FEMA to tell them what to do they don't deserve any better.

NO ONE IN THAT SHELTER IS MIDDLE CLASS. They are all lower class. When your house gets flooded and you're middle class, you call the insurance agent and move to a hotel or the home of a friend/relative. When you are lower class, you call FEMA and then bitch because your cot broke and you're cold. He's ungrateful and that's why he's where he is.

Please explain to me why there are posters hating on the Democrats and Obama and wanting freebies too like housing and clothes and food ASAP? I thought you guys were all John Galt!
I am all for helping but isn't that a commie attitude to the Romney crowd? Just trying to understand....

Have at least 1 months supply of food and other necessities. Don't depend on government, they are not your friend.

True, and BTW as a New Jersyan, I'm very impressed that Christie told everyone he didn't give a damn about election politics, his state was devastated. Go Christie! (he needs to lay off the cheesesteaks though, seriously.)

I looked on zillow.com at the prices of houses for sale in that town. They are mostly over $500,000. This is of course left-over data from before the storm (it's pretty funny to look at a picture of a pretty $1.3 million waterfront house and realize it is surely no more), but it tells us that it's at least a middle-class place. How could you be living in a house worth over $300,000 and not be called middle class?

Maybe they didn't have private flood insurance. Or maybe they did, but it's actually Federal flood insurance sold thru private companies, which is how I am told they do it. And maybe that Federal flood insurance's solution to this problem is to fall back on the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Do you have any specific knowledge adequate to answer my questions?

The fact they aren't letting people charge stuff and keep talking about this should be enough for people to realize this is bad, really bad.

People of all political parties were screaming just as much about Bush and FEMA after Katrina. A ton of our tax money goes to those suckers, ostensibly to mitigate disasters such as this and to help our fellow countrymen who are affected by it, not to let them go hungry and freeze to death while the government drags its incompetent bloated collective ass along the path to yet another big FAIL.

True, and BTW as a New Jersyan, I'm very impressed that Christie told everyone he didn't give a damn about election politics, his state was devastated. Go Christie! (he needs to lay off the cheesesteaks though, seriously.)

Totally agree but it is your responsibility to take care of yourself not the governments. I konw a few people in Jersey, they are not complaining about the government not giving them everything becuase they knew a hurricane was coming and prepared for it. they didn't sit around waiting on the government.

Are you drinking the kool aid being served by Gov. Cuomo?

The only way to "prepare" for this disaster, utility-wise, would have been to bury all the lines underground. That would have helped in a lot of places including where I am.

Should they have buried all the lines in old neighborhoods in a 100 mile radius of NYC? Was money provided to pay for it? Should it have been included in the rate base? Would the utility commission have approved the rate case to do that?

Sometimes a disaster occurs that overcomes your infrastructure, whatever that infrastructure is. In fact, if you build a different infrastructure and you believe as I do that this was weather used as a weapon, then the event would have been modified to exploit the weaknesses of THAT infrastructure. When your infrastructure is defeated, you have to scramble, act intelligently, and I thought it could go unsaid that you should not sabotage the victims.

You want to show me the $300k house this loser on disability owns??? Tell me the name of his insurance agent??? You're saying he has money for a $300k house but no money in savings to find adequate shelter for his family??? This man is a failure as a husband and father and he's blaming FEMA.

Some US-People need to look at Japan,
we have still ca. "400.000" People (Four-hundred Thousand)
in our Emergency Camps but they spend their Time for Re-Organizing instead of waiting for a Heater!

Even a Country like the US of America need a bit of Time,
it can't and it will never work in between a few Days!

For what I know people who "own" a house have the least disposible income: most of it goes to mortgage, maintenance and taxes.

For what I know people who "own" a house have the least disposible income: most of it goes to mortgage, maintenance and taxes.

I own my home. less than 25% of my income goes to mortgage, maintenace and taxes. But i was smart enough to not buy a house that i could not afford. What a concept that is.

I own my home. less than 25% of my income goes to mortgage, maintenace and taxes. But i was smart enough to not buy a house that i could not afford. What a concept that is.

So you get a cookie with your lucky life! While others suffer. Find some compassion.

Have at least 1 months supply of food and other necessities. Don't depend on government, they are not your friend.

So you get a cookie with your lucky life! While others suffer. Find some compassion.