Evacuate When Your Told

the stories coming out of the east are sad and many areas have faced times like these, but what pisses me off is when people are told and told to get out and don't. Then the FD and PD have to come in a pull them out endangering the lives of the firefighters and police (nation guard also).

I have spent the last 23 years missing holidays, birthdays, special events with my husband as firefighters don't get those days off and accidents happen and he gets called in even if he has the days off. I understand that--that what we signed up for, but when people just refuse to help themselves and think they can ride out the storm they don't think about the other people they are hurting. Not only are they endangering themselves, the lives/families of the first responders, but they are pulling these responders from helping those who are truly helpless.

I'm sorry if I offended anyone but after watching the news yet again of people who didn't listen to the warning when a storm came through I just had to vent.

Lt.ax49- You have nothing to apologize for. What is happening now on the east coast is identical to what happened in New Orleans with Katrina.My thinking is, if people don't care about their life, then why should I. They make their decision, they can live (or die) with it. When Ike came into Galveston, there were many who decided to "ride out" the massive hurricane who have never been seen or heard from since. Stupid is as stupid does.

I appreciate your feelings and thank your husband for his service.

Not everyone who didn't evacuate are in a devastating situation. My aunt who has lived in the Atlantic City area her entire life and hubby rode out the storm. Their block did not flood and home was not damaged. Currently, they're without power and will have to deal with that. To put this into perspective, they live about equal distance from the ocean and bay in Margate City.

I'm not making light of anyone who is dealing with a devastating situation and thoughts and prayers are with those in need. One needs to remember the media shows the very worst. During the height of a storm, they're not going to show the areas that are okay.

During monsoon season, the local news did a story on flooding in a sub division near where my mom lives. Their story somewhat implied my mom's entire city was flooded. Reality, the flooding was limited to that one street.

I grew up on the coast of Texas; Port Aransas, outside of Corpus Christi and we were taught to grab your important papers, kids, pets and get out of town. We have a small Coast Guard station there. I have always felt that if those boys and girls couldn't protect my island, then no one could.
It is very sad when people think that houses and things are more important than life, but some do and that's their choice. They just need to know that there may not be anyone around to rescue them right away.
It does get scary, I know that first hand, but it usually only takes once to know that you will NEVER stay back again!

My home is fine but I'm on a Ridge... people to the left, right and below me (Staten Island, Queens , Long Island and Jersey) we're not told to leave.
It's a PTSS Clusterfu*k here and all around us:
my co-workers daughter was elec.. heres the story and there will be many more... half are stilll w/o power and have so MUCH water damage:

"At about 8:30 p.m., just as Superstorm Sandy made landfall in New Jersey, Lauren Abraham was electrocuted when she stepped into a puddle outside her home on 105th Avenue near 134th Street and came into contact with live wires that shocked her, according to the city Police Department.

"Lauren was an individual you would easily gravitate to from her positive energy, which floated throughout the room," friend Misa McGregor posted on Facebook. "I may have just met her this summer, but when I spoke to her it made me want to push higher for my goals in life. Now how many young people do you know can have such an impact?"

"She was a nice girl," said neighbor Mohan Mamgal, who along with other nearby residents had been told that Abraham was taking pictures with her cellphone when she came in contact with the downed wires.

After the initial electrocution, Abraham's body continued to be scorched, according to neighbors as emergency and police responders could only watch helplessly until the power could be shut down by Consolidated Edison.

"She was burned all over," said neighbor Marie Costa.

It took about two hours for utility crews to turn off power before Abraham's body could be reached.

"I just saw a big fire, I didn't know that a person was getting burned," said neighbor Shaun Harrilall.

Con Ed could not comment on the specific incident.

As of Thursday afternoon, power had still not been restored to the block, and the only evidence that the grisly death had taken place was a black char mark along 105th Avenue.

A spokesman for the utility said downed wires will still pose a danger even days after Sandy leaves the area.

"These kinds of incidents occur when the wires are obscured by debris or they are under water," said Robert McGee. "We are urging people to stay away from areas where there is obvious damage for fear of exactly this kind of thing occurring again."

a very sad story

Egad...that's awful, J-M. So sorry.
Glad you are safe.
I cannot imagine the depths of misery from this.
Whole hospitals wiped out.
I've been expecting a call for dialysis nurses to fill in...nothing yet.

Hi Candy,
Glad to see you posting..
this recovery will be a Marathon, not a sprint..
There are wonderful stories of heroics also..
Pediatric nurses doing manual CPR on babies as they carried them down 18 flights of stairs... due to the fact that emergency generators in the hospitals were in the basement so they floodeded out and had to evacuate.... repeat this 40K times..... as many stories towards the good, the brave; but electricity is still out in Queens so there are no traffic lights...It's cold.
Shelters need strollers, baby formula, diapers, clothing. Redcross.org

My boss is charging his cell phone in his car and hasn't shaved but he has 2 cats and won't leave.

The NOr'Easter comes tomorrow night. God help us all.

So so sad.

Yes, very very sad story. So sorry! Ugh, can't imagine.

Now the Nor-easter. Hope you go unscathed, Good luck All.