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Fox: Staten Island people in the streets fighting one another for food, water, clothing
Fox News Live | 11/2/12

Posted on 11/02/2012 7:13:59 AM PDT by pabianice

The excremental liberal press is boycotting coverage of this to protect Obama but Fox is covering it. Staten Island has received zero help after four days. Bloomberg has stolen three huge generators to power marathon tents and given no help to the people of Staten Island. The entire borough is a ruined disaster. No food, no water, no gasoline, the homeless wandering across the island with no shoes, no socks, injured, starving, crying for help from camera crews. People fighting one another over dumpster garbage. Death toll rising.

Another Liberal success story.


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To: VeniVidiVici

Traditionally the reddest borough. They have a history of electing republican borough presidents.


101 posted on 11/02/2012 9:05:27 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: buffaloguy
I just saw on FOX the military is airlifting in Electric Repair Vehicles and Crews! Finally someone is thinking.

The military can get stuff in and out fast and it will save massive amounts of travel time for the repair crews.

Well done whoever got that initiative underway!

102 posted on 11/02/2012 9:11:39 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Kartographer

I love Star Trek!!


103 posted on 11/02/2012 9:25:23 AM PDT by HOYA97 (twitter @hoya97)
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To: JTHomes

I almost never watch TV, so I missed all of this.

8 days ahead of time seems like plenty of warning time......


104 posted on 11/02/2012 9:27:06 AM PDT by basil (Second Amendment Sisters.org)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

“Why not knock off some marathoners and Barbeque them up.”

Very little meat there.


105 posted on 11/02/2012 9:36:18 AM PDT by all the best (`~!)
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To: pabianice

Staten Isle is white.

Obama hates whites.


106 posted on 11/02/2012 9:48:06 AM PDT by NoLibZone (I know what it is to be Black,to be hated for who I am, more so than Whoppi does. I'm a Republican.)
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To: MinuteGal

I realize the airlift idea is very colorful and dramatic, but what’s the matter with just driving the stuff in?


107 posted on 11/02/2012 9:54:39 AM PDT by Romulus
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To: pabianice

Yes but Mayor Bammyberg endorsed big O and the NYC marathon is still on. Rejoice comrades—the workers paradise moves ‘FORWARD’. Bear your trifle inconveniences for the motherland—Manhattan, that is.


108 posted on 11/02/2012 9:54:56 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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To: tflabo

I’m a Staten Island resident.

There are basically two separate scenes going on here.

First, the interior portion of the island has a very high elevation above sea level. Electric lines down in the street,flooding and fallen trees slammed into houses. This has caused many to be without power but the comraderie among neighbors is very high. Those with power are running extensions to a neighbors house helping with cleanup
and basically being productive.

The second part is the coastal area. Those sections that are at or slightly above sea level have catastrophic losses. Homes are wiped out or uninhabitable. The water has yet to recede in all places and they are still finding bodies. With no power and government help that has been slow or non-existent most of the information residents receive are from the few reporters that ventured there a few days later or other residents that arrived to help. Sadly there are many sites are already stockpiled with various donations of clothing and food but word has been slow to trickle to those areas on where they can go.

The anger about the marathon is palpable here as police resources will be diverted to the marathon route while many are still looking for loved ones.


109 posted on 11/02/2012 10:11:54 AM PDT by kenf3
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To: Romulus
but what’s the matter with just driving the stuff in?

Clogged roads, flooded streets, fallen trees.

Take yer pick.

110 posted on 11/02/2012 10:24:13 AM PDT by MamaTexan (I am a Person as Created by the Laws of Nature, not a person as created by the laws of Man)
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To: angcat; basil; Mad Dawgg
>>They could at least air drop food and water for these people for now.<<

There's 40 gallons of water in your water heater. Do you know how to get it out? There's another five in your toilet tank that can be scooped out. Use a gallon paint can for a toilet instead of wasting water flushing it. Steam cook your food when you sterilize the water for drinking, that way you only need one fire.

These are common sense things to many who understand the meaning of self reliance. If you can't take care of yourself for a week, you need to die and get out of the way so productive people can use your house. Yes, I mean it. If you are so old and decrepit AND have never made friends who value your life experiences and skills so much they will assist you, then you need to go too.

Anyone waiting for someone to come and help them because they are out of gas, water, propane, or food after two days is IMO one of the stupid ones. Yes, being stupid should hurt. You are requiring the assistance of people who could be doing productive things like rebuilding storm damaged roads and power lines.

The storm surge was talked about on TV weather channels for four days before the storm hit land. It wasn't a surprise to anyone who took it upon themselves to read a disaster preparation book before the storm. Now, if watching the weather channel before the storm arrives would have interfered with you watching your daily sports of entertainment shows, too bad. Suffer it out.

If you didn't suffer because of the storm, did you go down to the local hospital, school, food bank, police or rescue station and offer your services. Why not. These people are your neighbors for chrissakes! Neighbors helping neighbors in time of need is that so difficult to understand?

>>Alfredo Zapata's home on Hunter Avenue was all but ruined by flood waters that rose to 11 feet and utterly devastated much of his block. "My next door neighbor died. Drowned. She was too old to leave," he said, adding the neighbor was only one of five people who were killed in Midland Beach during the storm.<<

I would have broken this man's face had he said that to me. The sorry sonofabitch never thought to help the old lady

111 posted on 11/02/2012 10:28:01 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Stand Up and Be Counted ... Or Line Up and Be Numbered ...)
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To: kenf3

Awful. Best of luck to you.


112 posted on 11/02/2012 10:46:37 AM PDT by angcat (ROMNEY/RYAN 2012)
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To: Alice in Wonderland

Not sure if the situation is similar but East Rockaway is back up in the area where my brother is.


113 posted on 11/02/2012 10:51:18 AM PDT by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Isn’t Staten Island noticeably more “red” than the rest of the city? If so,that would explain a lot.

SI voted for McCain in 2008.

Yes it does seem to explain a lot.

114 posted on 11/02/2012 10:56:14 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: pabianice
Politicians actually cause shortages by outlawing free-market pricing during a crisis. As is so often the case, their ill-advised legislation hurts the very people the politicians claimed to be helping.

Anyone who condemns "gouging" generally fails to understand that free-market pricing works to efficiently and effectively ration scarce resources and increase the available supplies.

No one can argue that this nation's eventual downfall will be largely attributable to widespread, willful IGNORANCE of basic economics and civics as well as the triumph of emotion over reason.

115 posted on 11/02/2012 11:04:42 AM PDT by newgeezer (It is [the people's] right and duty to be at all times armed. --Thomas Jefferson)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Staten Island isn’t blue. Nor are parts of South Brooklyn and South Queens.


116 posted on 11/02/2012 11:05:42 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (Holding my nose one more time to get rid of Eric Holder)
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To: stroll

Those who evacuated before the storm are now back to ruined homes and neighborhoods

They need blankets, water, and food

Your argument is specious


117 posted on 11/02/2012 11:13:23 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: Darren McCarty
Staten Island isn’t blue.

Must be why they aren't getting any help, not that the dims would play favorites. /s

118 posted on 11/02/2012 11:14:17 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ( For AMERICA's sake: Vote for the Mormon, NOT the muslim; The Capitalist, NOT the Communist! FUBO!)
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To: basil

I heard that Bloomie did not take this seriously before it hit.


119 posted on 11/02/2012 11:16:10 AM PDT by PghBaldy
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To: listenhillary
The generators are privately-funded and privately-owned... generators, which were supplied by Long Island-based On Site Energy

You know fully well that power utilities are not 'private' in any meaningful sense as, say, Macy's is private. Does Macy's get its income from taxes and fees government levies on the public? Regardless, all utility-owned generators in the area would normally be put to use helping residents during a disaster. Requisitioning them for the mayor's preening display is not acceptable.


120 posted on 11/02/2012 11:27:45 AM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture tm)
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