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- monkeyshine0
Just got an email from a coworker who lives in NYC who has recommended some smaller on the ground orgs who are taking donations. She advises to stay away from the Red Cross because apparently they're an organizational nightmare through this.
Thought I'd pass along for anyone interested:
Some options that I've seen be really active down here:
1) Alliance for Global Justice's grassroots network: https://www.wepay.com/donations/…
2) Brooklyn Community Foundation: http://www.brooklyncommunityfoun…
3) Safe Horizon: https://org2.democracyinaction.o…I can give you more smaller organizations if you're wanting specific groups.
The Mayor's Fund is also a good source for higher level coordination: https://www.nyc.gov/html/fund/ht…
You should also know that, much to my shock and horror, Red Cross has been a complete nightmare down here. :-( You can read how badly they're messing things up here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/0… The surprising/interesting thing is that the network of folks that connected through Occupy last year are actually some of the best coordinated relief workers right now. It's amazing to see how they're farming out and working across the boroughs checking in on elderly/vulnerable populations and making sure folks have what they need.
- i think when you donate to the red cross, it's for the "next" disaster, not the current one.cbass99
- instrmntl0
This is pretty crazy. I had no idea Downtown was this flooded.
Hurricane Sandy on Bikes in NYC
- CygnusZero40
Haha unreal. None of them are actually working, all just sitting in their trucks. Its 11am, get up in your baskets and do something!
- go out there, get your neighbors riled up, and start an angry mob demanding some work get done!monospaced
- CygnusZero40
Fuck some progress finally. Theres an army of 8 utility trucks here now.
- CygnusZero40
Milestone achieved, 7 days without power, no line workers seen yet. Im pretty sure i will make 10 days and probably die of pneumonia in this fucking apartment. Thank you jcp&l.
- you will not die and you will come out the other side wiser/tougher.lowimpakt
- it's Obama's faultGeorgesII
- fuck you, Sandy!sine
- go to Monos and get cosy...goldieboy
- yes. i hear he has heat. and it's free!sine
- no heat, just a working ovenmonospaced
- Thats more heat than i have.CygnusZero4
- I know. These other dickheads still think it's funny to joke, though.monospaced
- yeah mono, stop being so selfish... share you oven lovegoldieboy
- *yourgoldieboy
- I gave up. I slept at my girlfriend's place last night. Waiting until the central heat is backmonospaced
- share your girlfriend... ;)goldieboy
- sine0
- CygnusZero40
Yeah this is getting ridiculous now. No linemen in sight around here. Im all electric here so no oven to get warmth.
- I'm lucky I have gas. I don't even have to pay for that utility. I can keep the oven on for hours at no charge.monospaced
- And sorry to hear, it must be getting rough. Do you have anywhere to go for the day?monospaced
- Yeah my parents in south nj. Long drive though.CygnusZero4
- Be careful with the oven on man. Is it gas? That shit's dangerous to leave on for heating I think.mg33
- I sometimes roast meat for 4 hrs in the oven and it's not a problem. Why would it be now?monospaced
- And anyway, I have a carbon monoxide detector next to the oven.monospaced
- monospaced0
S- s- s- s- s-sssooooo c-c-c-cold. No heat still. Using the oven to get some warmth in h-h-here. Slept under some wool blankets, but woke up and felt like I was camping. B-brrrrrr.
- Sorry to hear, Mono...please be careful of carbon monoxide...gas ovens are dangerous.monkeyshine
- gas ovens are the only kind, as far as I know ofmonospaced
- oh.. I guess there are those electric pieces of shit parading as ovensmonospaced
- mono, you're an oven hipster, if you'll decry electricity, you better be using wood. :Dalbums
- I am not a hipster in any waymonospaced
- CygnusZero40
At least the police are doing more than guarding intersections.
- CygnusZero40
Some shithead busted in my town for siphening gas out of peoples cars for his generator.
- MHDC0
I hadn't heard of the rationing... the lines have been absolutely nuts and for some strange reason on the parkway (asbury exit) they had no lines and didn't ration... maybe I was the odd number by luck today?
- whatthefunk0
Link to estimated power fixes separated by state, town, and date
https://www.firstenergycorp.com/…Here's a Hess PDF they update every 2 hours with levels of gas, and types in different stations
http://hessexpress.com/FuelInfor…Brooklyn was a mess today so drove to North Jersey and waited in line for over an hour to get $40 of gas before the even/odd license plate ration takes place starting at noon today. Christie instituted gas rationing in NJ. Odd and even days based upon the last digit in your license plate.
- lowimpakt0
"Im havig a very hard time believing im not in some 3rd world country"
maybe if you were in a 3rd world country people (not govt.) would have figured out how to get power by now.
- grow upmonospaced
- Imagine what mahnattan would look like if the blackout lasted a weekGeorgesII
- isn't the lack of technology and inability to generate power one of the hallmarks of a 3rd world country, anyway?monospaced
- i'm talking about resilience and not insulting 3rd world people.lowimpakt
- of course. you live in New York. you expect certain things. that's why nature is an equalizer...sine
- monospaced0
Finally made it home. Water flooded 6ft deep on the ground floor. No hot water but power and Internet are working. Line of cars for gas next door is several hours and 10 blocks long. Everything covered in dry mud. It's a mess.
- 6 ft? how did you get in?sine
- Past tense. It's not still flooded.monospaced
- ahsine
- Damn was hoping for "snorkel and flippers." Good luck man, are you in NY or NJ?mg33
- Manhattan. Upper East Side.monospaced
- good luck man.. :-(hektor911
- instrmntl0
That sucks Cygnus. Hope you get power soon.
- HijoDMaite0
Cygnus, you are in NJ? what area?
- CygnusZero40
Has anyone without power in nj even seen a fucking utility truck? This is awful with no end in site. Im havig a very hard time believing im not in some 3rd world country. WHERE IS THE FUCKING ASSISTANCE??????????
- CygnusZero40
I still dont have power. Its 37 degrees in my apartment.
- Love the fact that i havent seen 1 utility truck yet.CygnusZero4
- this is horrible:(utopian
- mg330
EW spoke to Sons of Anarchy – and Staten Island native — Theo Rossi (Juice Ortiz), who was home visiting family and friends when Sandy hit. He’s remained there ever since and gave us this first-hand account of the devastation.
“It’s so bad here, a lot worse than how its being portrayed by the media. They are finding bodies left and right, elderly people who don’t even watch the news or who knew the storm was coming. I was just with one of my best friends from high school and college, and his house is completely gone. One story I heard was about this one guy who evacuated his house during Hurricane Irene but then it got looted. So when they told him to evacuate for Sandy, he said, ‘I’m not leaving.’ Now they can’t find him, his 13-year-old daughter is dead, and his wife is in critical condition at the hospital. These are the stories. My stepfather and my mother, I love them to death. But when they heard the storm was coming, they said, ‘It’s not going to be that bad. Irene didn’t do anything.’ They had two flashlights and a couple of scented candles. Little did they know. It’s just not worth it. If you’re told to evacuate, you need to get out.
The one weird thing is how there is no power. The other weird thing is how there’s no gas. To get gas requires a three-and-a-half hour wait. It’s like this odd, post-apocalyptic kind of thing. Most trees are down. Power lines are down. It’s like a movie, or like The Walking Dead. You can’t believe it. Especially when you grow up here. I moved to Los Angeles in 1999, but this has always been my home. There’s the place I kissed a girl, that’s the place I played handball. I know this island in and out. To see it completely destroyed is bizarre.
I’ve been trying to hit every shelter on Staten Island to do what I can, just to make people smile. A lot of people know me and know I’m from here. My flight has been changed six times now. Finally, I got a flight for Sunday. Then, the city decides they are going ahead with the New York City Marathon. The bridges will be closed, so I can’t get to the airport. How are they doing a marathon when most people don’t have power? On top of it, the hotels in Manhattan have been nice enough to put up people who have no homes. They are charging them $200 as opposed to $700 a night. But now they are throwing these people out because they’ve got people from all over the world coming to run the marathon. They are throwing out the survivors! So I call Jet Blue and say I can’t fly Sunday because I can’t get from Staten Island to JFK Airport. And they said ‘Okay Theo.’ They know me know because I’ve been calling them every 15 minutes. They say, ‘Theo, we can get you on a flight Friday.’ I say book it! I call up the car service, and they say, ‘We can’t pick you up, we have no gas.’ All my friends on Staten Island say, ‘How are we going to get you there? We have no gas.’ And the people who do have gas, don’t want to waste it going to JFK. So I’ve got to call and change my flight again. Now I’m leaving Monday. Everybody says if we don’t have gas in our cars by Monday, if the roads aren’t clear by Monday, that’s it ... we’re throwing in the towel.
I’m really glad I’m here to help and do anything, but I’ve never seen anything like this. I’m just glad I’m here with my family. A shout out and thank you to all the amazing city workers who have been working around the clock. Police, fire, sanitation. You all are the true fabric of this city.”- I was a New Orleans resident during Hurricane Katrina. I can tell you for a fact that media and govt distort numbersbliznutty
- WTFGlitterati_Duane
- CyBrainX0
I think most of Manhattan is finally with power. I biked downtown and have power in the Lower East Side. What a freaking relief.