Bush’s fault.
The election is over. Don’t those people realize they’re no longer of any use to Obama?
Why is it taking so long to recover? Hell, Katrina victims are still out there 8 years later.
Insurance not paying off?
Dishonest contractors?
Rampant Corruption?
The good news is that, their low tier, scumbag politicians have given them some of “the toughest anti-Second Amendment” laws in the entire universe.
MSM won’t talk about Sandy but if one black person didn’t get gravyl with their government chicken dinner during Katrina, we heard about that gravy, it’s nutritional importance and how racist it is to be deprived of that gravy in great detail.
Meanwhile, the elites celebrate at the correspondents dinner in Washington.
We’ll have FReepers along shortly explaining the feds and state guys (like Obama and Christie) having been working non-stop on the problems but the storm was just too unprecedented to handle without huge increases in taxes!
I live on Long Island. a good number of people live along the coast...Most don’t.
I rented a house back on a south shore canal in the late 1970s while in my 20s. I shared the house with another boat owner and it was a fun 2 years till I got married and bought a house in 1981 but not near a flood zone.
I would NEVER buy a house on the water. every few years you will get property damage and once every half a century or so, you stand a good chance of getting pretty much wiped out.
I do not believe the government should offer insurance, which will be paid by you and me when disaster happens, just because someone wants to live in a disaster prone area so they can have a home and a vacation home all in one.
I can understand living in flood prone areas(and offering some sort of insurance) if you are a farmer and live on a flood plain as that is where the best bottom land is...or even for a commercial fisherman, though you do not really have to live where you fish.
I feel sorry for those who lost everything,(I personally helped out where I could after Sandy) but you shouldn’t be living there as a vacation house, if you cant afford to have it fixed yourself.
that goes for NY, NJ and the below sea level city of New Orleans. New Orleans should never have been rebuilt, especially on my tax dollars...move it up river or just let it go.
Six months after Superstorm Sandy devastated the Jersey shore and New York City and pounded coastal areas of New England, the region is dealing with a slow and frustrating, yet often hopeful, recovery.
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Yep major catastrophic events such as this one, hurricanes, earthquakes, etc. aren’t restored overnight. It takes time and often many years for completion. And some locations may never be restored because of new codes.
If there was a Republican administration, the Democrats and the MSM would be screaming. Since its a Democrat administration, they are ignored. Sucks to be a pawn.
“What difference does it make at this point?”
Obamaramadama himself PERSONALLY toured a part of this disaster area for almost an hour with Christy and proclaimed “All this will be fix!” So he said, so it was, it was done!
These people, these whiners need to stop clinging to their TV, their heating, their electricity, their toilets and showers and see that Obamaramadama needs their help to convince their elected representatives to enact a new realm of ‘undocumented worker amnesty’ that will enrich our diverse nation immensely!
They should just shut up, shelter-in-place and give to Obamaramadama’s “let’s take America Forward campaign.”
As a New Yorker who, wisely, chooses to live away from the shore, I have a really big problem with my tax dollars being pissed away to be given to someone who chose to live on the sound or even worse, on a barrier island. If you live on the water, you better carry your own insurance and be prepared to pay for your house when a storm such as Sandy comes along.
My insurance carrier jacked up my homeowner insurance 35% this year. Why? Because of all of the losses from Sandy in this state. It is a damn outrage.
But, the governor has essentially outlawed legal gunowners from owning guns. I feel so safe.
New York is the Titanic. The ship is sinking fast, but the deck chairs are being re-arranged and the band is still playing.
Met a friend at a funeral in December of 2012—he’s a contractor in the south.
They went north to help the victims of Sandy and guess what?
They were pretty much TURNED AWAY because they were NOT UNION.
but but but crispy cream kissed HUSSEIN’S butt so this wouldn’t happen...........
“6 months after Sandy, thousands homeless in NY, NJ”
I suspect the same was true six months BEFORE Sandy - this is the Obama economy, after all.
what’s the problem?? get off your fat a$$es and get to work fixing up your place, dont rely on Government, didnt you have insurance? no? sucks to be you.