Hurricane Sandy Update

[PaceAdvantage]

Why do the words "You're doin' a helluva job..." come to mind here after reading this piece from (shockingly) overseas...someone once said you have to go overseas to get any real coverage of the news...living here on LI after Sandy and seeing the praise heaped on this administration for their "handling" of the aftermath, I now know why:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2231095/Hurricane-Sandy-victims-hit-forced-spend-12-days-power.html

[Tom]

I saw coverage today - laughed my ass off when one local official said something to the effect of "George Bush turned on the electricity in Baghdad under fire, Obama can't turn it on Long Island!

[ArlJim78]

you're wanted out by Coney Island. This story should be enlightening for those of you with faith in big government.


Occupy Sandy Volunteer Sounds Alarm on 'Humanitarian Crisis,' Near-Complete Absence of Government Aid in Coney Island Projects (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-marans/occupy-sandy-volunteers_b_2101396.html)


The situation in public housing projects in Coney Island, Brooklyn remains a "humanitarian crisis" in which the government and the Red Cross have been nearly completely absent, according to Eric Moed, a volunteer aid worker with Occupy Sandy (http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy/).
Friday is Moed's fifth day volunteering with Occupy Sandy (http://interoccupy.net/occupysandy/), an ad hoc
hurricane relief group formed by former Occupy Wall Street activists. Moed, an architect from Brooklyn's Clinton Hill neighborhood, goes door to door in the 30-40 public housing buildings in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn to distribute food, water and supplies, and help address sanitation and medical needs. The projects in Coney Island remain without power, and often without water and necessities in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Accounts of these conditions have been corroborated in the New York Daily (http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/nycha-tenants-struggle-survive-heat-water-post-sandy-article-1.1196965)[/url]
[url="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/nycha-tenants-struggle-survive-heat-water-post-sandy-article-1.1196965"]News (http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/nycha-tenants-struggle-survive-heat-water-post-sandy-article-1.1196965)



(http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/nycha-tenants-struggle-survive-heat-water-post-sandy-article-1.1196965)

hats off to this occupy volunteer who is actually going into the distressed area to help and report on the dire situation there.