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‘People aren’t going to have heat until Christmas’

via NYT:

He had just come from a meeting with the Long Island Power Authority, where he had been informed that no one would get power until an electrician had inspected the homes. “I told them that was impossible,” he said. “People aren’t going to have heat until Christmas.”

When I called Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office to ask why so much of the relief effort had been left to volunteers, I got [...]

Homeowners Issue Warnings To Looters Following Superstorm Sandy

newyork.cbslocal.com
November 7, 2012

In the wake of superstorm Sandy, reports of lootings across the Tri-State have been widespread.

Areas hit especially hard by Sandy continue to deal with dealing with lawlessness.

Rockaways residents told 1010 WINS reporter Gary Baumgarten that looting and thievery have become such serious threats that taking up arms and fleeing town are the best options for staying safe.

Hell in New York – Media & Politicians Ignore Chaos, Looting & Deaths

Despite the federal government attempts to pretend that everything is under control; parts of New York have devolved into absolute chaos and anarchy.

From gas lines that stretch for miles to wide spread looting, robberies and violence; The Rockaways, Queens and Coney Island look more like a war zone than they do part of New York.

http://www.pakalertpress.com/2012/11/06/hell-in-new-york-media-politicians-ignore-chaos-looting-deaths/

Hell in New York – Media & Politicians IGNORE Chaos, Looting & Deaths

from Off Grid Survival:

Despite the federal government attempts to pretend that everything is under control; parts of New York have devolved intoabsolute chaos and anarchy.

From gas lines that stretch for miles to wide spreadlooting, robberies and violence; The Rockaways, Queens and Coney Island look more like a war zone than they do part of New York.

City Councilman James Sanders (D-Far Rockaway) is warning that his district may soon slip into complete [...]

Marathon canceled, but generators and supplies still sit unused in park

What a run-around!

The city left more than a dozen generators desperately needed by cold and hungry New Yorkers who lost their homes to Hurricane Sandy still stranded in Central Park yesterday.

And that’s not all — stashed near the finish line of the canceled marathon were 20 heaters, tens of thousands of Mylar “space” blankets, jackets, 106 crates of apples and peanuts, at least 14 pallets of bottled water and 22 [...]

“When are we gonna get some f–king help?”

Storm-ravaged and weary Rockaways residents cornered Mayor Bloomberg yesterday to angrily demand more aid for their devastated neighborhood.

“When are we gonna get some help?” blasted one desperate woman, who had to be held back by the mayor’s security detail as Bloomberg stood by with a deer-in-the-headlights look.

“When are we gonna get some f–king help?” she demanded.

“There’s old ladies in my building that don’t got nothing,” lashed out a man on [...]

Just got this from a friend in Rockaway

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY: Many of you are concerned about Rockaway, and all the coastal areas affected by Hurricane Sandy. As we approach day 3 from the storm, these considerations should be made:
1 – no considerable relief effort is being made for those who chose to wait out the storm. Whether you agree with the decision to stay or not, this means tens of thousands of people now in an area [...]

WATERWORLD: At least 9 die as Sandy slams city; floods, outages wreak havoc

Hurricane Sandy blasted the New York area yesterday, killing at least nine people: three adults in Queens, a teenage girl on Staten Island, two on Long Island, one in Ulster County and three kids in Westchester.

The storm, its winds flirting with 100 mph, unleashed a wave of devastation from which it could take weeks to recover.

In flooded lower Manhattan, water gushed into the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and cars were floating in [...]

Wild ‘possum causes evacuation of NYC subway

From NYT:

It was a few minutes before 4:30 a.m. when the call came in: a suspicious passenger was aboard a Manhattan-bound subway train. Other riders were alarmed. The suspect was said to be making furtive movements.

And there was something else: this suspect had a tail.

Last Friday — yes, it happened to be the 13th — the straphangers on a late-night D train were startled to discover that a nonhuman creature [...]

It’s official: NYC hospital files for bankruptcy

Peninsula Hospital of Far Rockaways, Queens, and its nursing home affiliate enters Chapter 11 protection as a condition of its proposed purchase by a privately owned, for-profit health care shop.

Another struggling New York City hospital has filed for bankruptcy. Peninsula Hospital and its affiliate, Peninsula General Nursing Home Corp.—which does business as Peninsula Center for Extended Care & Rehabilitation—filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on [...]

NYC MAYOR ORDERS 300,000 TO FLEE

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 300,000 people were ordered Friday to evacuate flood-prone areas and subways, buses and trains prepared to shut down a day later as Hurricane Irene steamed toward New York, the most powerful storm to target the city in decades.

It was the first time the nation’s largest city was evacuated. And never before has the entire mass transit system been shuttered [...]

Fear mongering! Here’s What It Might Look Like If A Hurricane Hit New York City

Judging by this morning’s news reports it seems increasingly likely New York City is going to get whacked by Hurricane Irene this weekend.

Presumably if you have the time to read this you have already battled your way through the grocery/Duane Reade line-up to stock up on batteries, water, and pita chips.

Naturally the key is not to panic. What’s going to hit us on Sunday is a tropical [...]

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