Too bad that a lot more weren’t able to evacuate—but I don’t that anyone could have predicted the effect the storm had on NYC.
The problems is is the numbers we are dealing with. Let us say for instance 75% of the people on Staten Island left before the storm (I doubt it was that high)
That still is over 100,000 People left on the Island. They have no power or safe drinking water and the food is probably gone if it wasn't destroyed already. And Bloomburg is still gonna run a stupid Marathon that starts on their turf.
I know If I lived there I would be livid.
The other thing to realize is many of these people can't get to work if they even have jobs anymore (think how many businesses are destroyed in the tidal surge) They are soon gonna run out of money so they won't be able to buy stuff anyhow even if they could find some to buy.
This isn't Katrina. This is 30 Katrinas and we will find that Gub'ment won't be able to cope with the demand.
Those people need to be evacuated NOW and what is left of their property secured until services can be restored and clean up begin
There is no “shelter-in-place” in neighborhoods with this degree of damage. There are entire blocks gone. Restoring power is not their priority. It goes to the bottom of Maslow’s hierarchy
Since the Katrina democrats set the bar by placing total responsiblity for natural disaster on the POTUS (Bush) .... what is OBAMA’s plan for NYC and NJ?
Maybe if they'd spent less time watching the Kardashians and more time watching the Discovery channel, they'd realized what a 'storm surge' was.
BTW- Howdy basil!
Have we heard whether any of the deaths came from people who weren’t in zone A flood areas—and therefore subject to supposedly ‘mandatory’ evacuation on Sunday?
This is the sort of thing where if people weren’t so dependent on the big government, they’d have better organized precinct-type captains and volunteers, going knocking on doors, especially hounding the elderly, and putting up notices soon enough for full evacuation.
Also, I could see urging people to evacuate to emergency shelters immediately, and then find their way on to friend or family accommodations, if that’s what they want, from there.
True, no one could have predicted the effect of this storm.
But there is a clear difference in the media coverage of this storm vs. the coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
0bama says cars are bad use mass transit.
Not an easy thing to do evacuate 150 miles inland on mass transit.
I heard that Bloomie did not take this seriously before it hit.