[Alice in Wonderland]

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who was the hardest hit of all?

You were correct! The people of the Town of Hempstead were the hardest hit of all! So much harder than the people of the Rockaways, as this video clearly shows.

Mea culpa.

[CaptainK]

Dear dingbat

The article was talking about the people of Long Island. I was only asking for a little pity for them.
The people on Long Beach were hit HARD.

I wrote one sentence. I said nothing disparaging or made a comparison about the Rockaways. But for some reason you picked a fight out of the thin air to change the subject.

Queens voted OVERWHELMING for Obama , so following your tortured pretzel logic YOU have no pity for them.