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Updates on Sandy...end of hell week...
Nov. 2nd, 2012 10:09 pm1. According to NY1 - They cancelled the NYC Marathon for the first time...in I think in forever? They ran it after 9/11. Guess Mayor Bloomberg finally got tired of fighting with people on it. They've been fighting over it for the last two days. Bloomberg: we'll have the marathon! Everyone else: Don't be a nitwit, we can't have it - people are hurting. Bloomberg: It will bring in needed revenue. Everyone else: And divert needed resources.
The problem was simply this - the marathon would take needed resources away from areas affected by the hurricane - such as police, sanitation workers, and others. Also it would block traffic that needs to get through. The subways are slowly coming back, but they aren't there yet. Brooklyn and Staten Island are connected to Manhattan by Ferry, Brooklyn by buses and bridges. The runners are whinging about it. Seriously people, count your blessings, some people don't have a home any more. Go volunteer instead.
2. The situation here is ...bad, folks. No, I'm not exaggerating - although I am prone to do that on occasion, I admit this. It's also surreal. Because in some areas are perfectly fine, but others look like they've been hit by a bomb. Remember the Japan Tsumani and Katrina? It's like that.
Anyhow..below is a pic I took on the way home from work. ( pic of Gas Lines in Brooklyn that I couldn't post on DW )
Also here's some links from my coworkers in case you want to help NYC or Long Beach or Long Island in anyway or live here and want to volunteer:
Help NYC Hurricane Victims
Help Long Beach - if you can get there and donate supplies for victims of the hurricane
And here's photos from Fire Island - that lovely island I visited in July with it's expensive homes:
( links to photos from Fire Island on Face Book )
3. ( What to do on Election Day about Voting, Heating issues, and other stuff )
4. Staten Island is about to leave NY and join NJ - they haven't gotten much help at all. Co-worker's hubby is a police officer (this is the one with the Mickey Mouse kid), and he was working the hurricane in Staten Island and tried to save the cop who got killed going into his basement to rescue people. Her husband's fine, but his friend is dead. Most of the deaths occurred in Staten Island.
The other isolated place is the Rockaways...which was devastated - Breezepoint is gone. This is an area populated by the first responders to 9/11.
Long Beach...omg. OMG. And you don't hear about it at all on the news. Nor do you hear about Babylon or Fire Island - also devastated. You guys have no idea how bad this is.
I have co-workers who don't know when they'll get their power back. It may be next week or the week after that. No one has returned their calls. Someone removed the tree but that was it.
5. The MTA has handled this well. They've bounced back. Yay, CRAZY, workplace!( Read more... )
So happy this week is over. Killed my planned 4 day weekend, but oh well. Was planning on taking Monday off - but can't now. Did a week's worth of work in two days and still feel overwhelmed. I keep telling myself, hang in there, it will get better! Besides, it could have been so much worse. I'm very lucky - I've picked a place in NYC that didn't get devastated by Hurricane Sandy.
The problem was simply this - the marathon would take needed resources away from areas affected by the hurricane - such as police, sanitation workers, and others. Also it would block traffic that needs to get through. The subways are slowly coming back, but they aren't there yet. Brooklyn and Staten Island are connected to Manhattan by Ferry, Brooklyn by buses and bridges. The runners are whinging about it. Seriously people, count your blessings, some people don't have a home any more. Go volunteer instead.
2. The situation here is ...bad, folks. No, I'm not exaggerating - although I am prone to do that on occasion, I admit this. It's also surreal. Because in some areas are perfectly fine, but others look like they've been hit by a bomb. Remember the Japan Tsumani and Katrina? It's like that.
Anyhow..below is a pic I took on the way home from work. ( pic of Gas Lines in Brooklyn that I couldn't post on DW )
Also here's some links from my coworkers in case you want to help NYC or Long Beach or Long Island in anyway or live here and want to volunteer:
Help NYC Hurricane Victims
Help Long Beach - if you can get there and donate supplies for victims of the hurricane
And here's photos from Fire Island - that lovely island I visited in July with it's expensive homes:
( links to photos from Fire Island on Face Book )
3. ( What to do on Election Day about Voting, Heating issues, and other stuff )
4. Staten Island is about to leave NY and join NJ - they haven't gotten much help at all. Co-worker's hubby is a police officer (this is the one with the Mickey Mouse kid), and he was working the hurricane in Staten Island and tried to save the cop who got killed going into his basement to rescue people. Her husband's fine, but his friend is dead. Most of the deaths occurred in Staten Island.
The other isolated place is the Rockaways...which was devastated - Breezepoint is gone. This is an area populated by the first responders to 9/11.
Long Beach...omg. OMG. And you don't hear about it at all on the news. Nor do you hear about Babylon or Fire Island - also devastated. You guys have no idea how bad this is.
I have co-workers who don't know when they'll get their power back. It may be next week or the week after that. No one has returned their calls. Someone removed the tree but that was it.
5. The MTA has handled this well. They've bounced back. Yay, CRAZY, workplace!( Read more... )
So happy this week is over. Killed my planned 4 day weekend, but oh well. Was planning on taking Monday off - but can't now. Did a week's worth of work in two days and still feel overwhelmed. I keep telling myself, hang in there, it will get better! Besides, it could have been so much worse. I'm very lucky - I've picked a place in NYC that didn't get devastated by Hurricane Sandy.