Maybe a city that hasn't been underwater for three days and counting...
Posted on 11/02/2012 8:14:29 AM PDT by pabianice
Slumdog millionaire.
Are you serious?
I have power, clean water, 2 full tanks of gas, healthy children...heck, we’re even going to have Halloween (on Monday). I’m just a human being who has seen the interviews with these people (who I have no affinity with whatsoever); NYC is a foreign country to me, but they’re still people.
Assuming you're in Kearny, did you get any flooding at all?
Along the Passaic River there was some (mostly businesses), and the roads between Kearny & Jersey City (across the meadows) were flooded. South Kearny (the port) is flooded, while the residential part has a lot of downed trees. Had to go a few towns over to get gas.
Thanks. I assumed the Jersey City waterfront would be flooded, but it's a real surprise that Kearny was affected.
That's human bodies. No mention of animal bodies, or of spoiled food and toxic chemicals that are mixed in with the water.
If I were in NYC, I would consider the running of the marathon to be an insult to those still homeless and without the necessities of life. Yes, marathoners might pitch in and help clean up afterwards, but they'll also be using critical resources.
Don't you just love Bloomberg: screw the people in his city who don't have electricity or clean water, but DAMMIT, NO ONE will drink a 32 oz. soda!
What exactly in my comment caused you to infer that I want anyone FORCED to do anything?
South Kearny is very flood-prone; there are no residences there, but there is industry, truck stops, and a firehouse. Usually just strong rains will flood South Kearny (the Fishhouse Road area, by route 1&9).
A radio host just described some marathon runners donning their numbers and going to Staten Island to help with the relief instead of running the marathon; good for them.
Where is Occupy WallStreet when you need them...
Seriously though...what runner in their right mind would do this marathon NOW!
At least two groups of people scheduled to run the New York City Marathon Sunday are organizing protests against the city’s decision to allow the marathon to go forward, despite Hurricane Sandy’s devastation.
Furious over resources going to the marathon instead of to relief efforts, Penny Krakoff, a social worker, plans to take food and supplies to the Staten Island starting line before breaking off to deliver them to Sandy victims.
“I cannot start a 26.2 mile run in Staten Island—people are missing, stranded, in need of resources. Brooklyn and Queens have equal devastation,” she told Gothamist. “Parts of Manhattan are without electricity, water, major hospitals are closed. The Bronx too has its own challenges. Today I will volunteer at a city evacuation shelter. Sunday morning I will catch the marathon bus to Staten Island. Not planning to run. Plan to volunteer instead and gather resources (extra clothes, bottles of water, food from runners at the start). Let’s not waste resources and attention on a foot race. Who is with me?”
A Facebook group called “Marathon of Relief” with nearly 500 likes also proposes runners show up for the start of the race, and then depart to deliver aid along the route.
“Runners will show up at the starting line, but will break off en masse at different points of the city to deliver supplies to places hardest hit and without power,” it says. “This will mean departing from the race, to head to various buildings, running up and down stairs delivering water and canned goods, etc.”
And another, with more than 2,700 likes, called “Boycott the 2012 NYC Marathon,” has a similar message:
Good for them; the marathon can wait. Could you imagine waiting fof drinkable water while these people run past? The natives should hunt them, like a modern “Hunger Games”...
Maybe a city that hasn't been underwater for three days and counting...
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