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Ruudy
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prayers for bountiful food and heat and coffee
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malik3000
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It is now that the storm has gone and people are trying to recover and more now comes to light i am struck by just how awful the extent of this storm's destruction has been. What an awful night it must have been for the folks in New Jersey and Staten Island.
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New Yorker
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There are a lot of sad stories arising out of hurricane Sandy, but this one, in particular, really hurts.
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Moo
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Meanwhile, many people think that the NYC administration has its priorities wrong.
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Lothiriel
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Thank God they've come to their senses. Unbelievable that Bloomberg & co. would even consider letting the marathon go on.
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malik3000
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I'm not a big fan of Bloomberg and i thought that letting the Marathon go on was a bad idea, but perhaps in fairness, i have to note that while it was evident from the start that things were bad, it seems like it's taken several days for the full extent of how bad they are to come out. It seems like day by day new more catastrophic destruction is revealed. For example, i didn't realise just how extensive the Jersey coast damage was until more news and images came, nor did i realise at first how truly horrible things were in parts of Staten Island, til the couple of days.
Again [ 03. November 2012, 17:07: Message edited by: malik3000 ]
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Lothiriel
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Yeah, but -- Bloomberg is right in the centre of things, and presumably he was getting frequent briefings since Monday directly from emergency services on the extent of the disaster. It was clear by Wednesday that available resources had to be directed to the residents of his city, and not to the visitors who hadn't yet arrived.
He was trying to emulate Guiliani by going ahead with the marathon in the wake of disaster, referring to 9/11 -- but in that case, the marathon was two months after the disaster, and 9/11 didn't have such widespread physical effects on people's homes and neighbourhoods.
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malik3000
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You make a good point Lothiriel. After I posted the above it occurred to me that although I followed the progress of the storm alot on the weather Channel, CNN, MSNBC, etc., the mayor surely had to be privy to more information sources then I would be.
Something that annoys me about coverage of Sandy in the U.S. media. In this case I am not as annoyed as I usually might be since the U.S. was in this case hit particularly hard, but as usual for U.S. media Planet Earth seems to end at U.S. borders. Sandy did terrible damage in parts of the Caribbean, especially poor already-battered Haiti, and little was said in the U.S. media. And while the U.S. media showed the remarkable Sandy-caused turbulence on Lake Michigan in Chicago, I heard not one single word about Toronto, not at all far from the U.S. border, and closer to New York than Chicago is, and Toronto had at least one Sandy-related death, and quite a few people lost power.
But I apologize if the above strays into the Purgatorial realm, so I'll gripe no further.
I will say that when I saw images of the waves in Chicago, it was quite amazing, since I'd never seen waves like that on the Great Lakes, and I immediately thought about Lake Ontario since for an all-too brief time in the 70s Toronto was my home and from that ancient era I have very pleasant memories of the ferry to City Island Park. [ 04. November 2012, 18:22: Message edited by: malik3000 ]
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Nicolemr
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I am happy to report that thanks to a team of lovely folks from Florida we now have our power again.
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Moo
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There are still problems with distributing aid.
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