Evacuate When Your Told

So sad - so many victims and heroes to come out of this. What a horrible and tragic scenario - we can only look forward to some stories of heroics - America has a way of throwing up heroes in these situations

Tony - a Canadian looking on and sending really good thought to all involved.

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

We got 6 inches and the lights/heat went out again

Rockaway, Breezy point and all the NYSHA housing still are w/o power..
temps are dropping tonight.
people have pulled toegther but there is much work to be done and housing to be found for 40K people who can't go back to their homes this winter... imagine?
Fema is doing what it can... everyone collects and donates and shelters/houses people who are displaced- nothing can be fast enough. Kids went back to schools today.

Noahcat, our thoughts and prayers are with you, your neighbors and all who were affected. I have family living on Staten Island and actually lived there myself as a child, many moons ago. They are all safe.

The saddest story to come out of all of this will be the folks who are still without power and one of the main reasons for it.....many thousands of those who came to help, being turned away, simply due ot the fact that they weren't in a frigging union!! Power companies from all across the country sent their bucket trucks and workers by the thousands. Once they arrived, some after driving thousands of miles, they were asked if they were union workers. If the answer was NO, they were turned away and told their services weren't needed!!!!! Hundreds of thousands without power, some still, and the help that comes, is turned away!! Heads should roll over this and I'm not talking about just the lower ranking folks. EVERYONE who had a hand in turning away this help, from the top to the bottom should be fired with NO unemployment benefits. Had anyone in gov't stood up to the union thugs and ordered them to accept this help from around the country, I feel that everyone would have had power many days ago. As it is, there are still folks without power today, well over two weeks later. Pitiful. I'm sure that before this is all over, this fiasco will also be blamed on the Bush administration.............and no, that wasn't a misprint.

In a way it is hard to imagine 40K people needing housing in one area. We don't have that many people in our entire city limits.

"In a way it is hard to imagine 40K people needing housing in one area. We don't have that many people in our entire city limits."

My Bronx housing complex had over 14,000 apartments and almost 50,000 people.

Hundreds of homes are being condemned this week

I wonder why you don't know what you're talking about. Because you don't know what you're talking about.

Union officials deny non-union utility workers were turned away from N.J. hurricane outage site

Non-union utility crews from out of state can work in N.J., power companies say

Bill Yell, communications manager for Huntsville Utilities, said he was not aware that a union issue had prevented three of that company’s crews from working in New Jersey.

“The reason we’re not working with the New Jersey system is that they had all the crews they could handle,” he said.

The fact that those crews are not unionized did not have any effect, he said.

Even internet factchecker snopes.com has labeled your "union crews were turned away" story FALSE

Like many, you've confused anti-union rhetoric produced by the Conservative Entertainment Complex for news. It's not. And because you don't know that, you don't know what you're talking about.

Now the mold has come to everyones home that was flooded or affected... mold is growing wild in basements and walls of any place still standing.. a huge health risk for elderly and children.

My stepdaughter who lives in Toms River still is not back in her house and doesn't expect to be able to return until January. She was lucky in that her home is still standing and most of her belongings are intact. The crawl space under the house was flooded, so all of the flooring and floor cover needs to be replaced. It also took a while with high powered dehunidifiers to dry out the place. Flood and home owner insurance will cover most of the costs and luckily, she has friends that she has been able to stay with since the storm.

A former coworker (teacher) who had a Summer home at the Jersey Shore found his house three blocks from where it originally was.

Larry from Las Vegas