Victims of Sandy
#14
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Carlisle, PA
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I live in the Village of Mastic Beach on Long Island's south shore. Fortunately, my home is about a thousand feet north of the bogs and Great South Bay - I did not suffer any major damage, but hundreds of neighbors just south of me have been completely devastated. The storm surge brought the ocean rushing up the road, passing my property. It only seeped onto my lawn a few feet feet and my power was out for nearly 24 hours. A quarter mile away, people have lost EVERYTHING. Homes were swept off their foundations - people did not get out in time and those stories end the worst possible way. It's taken all this time for the waters to recede enough to be able to walk along the shore. I'm going to try to bicycle around my neighborhood to check on my friends. We appreciate all your thoughts and prayers.
#16
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Peotone IL
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[QUOTE=NJ Quilter;5627407]And, sorry for the personal rant, but when you are told by the powers that be to evacuate - DO IT! When you don't, you're putting my DH's life on the line. And many other first responders. Please don't make me a widow unnecessarily. Your stuff is STUFF! I'd be sad to lose things as well. I get it when something freakish happens that could not be foreseen. In this case - not so for many, many people. OK - rant over.
I so agree with you. It's inconsiderate, uncaring, rude and irresponsible not to think about the first responders' lives.
I so agree with you. It's inconsiderate, uncaring, rude and irresponsible not to think about the first responders' lives.
#19
My NJ friend few to LA days before the storm to help family --now her house may be destroyed --I could only help
by getting her some email/phone information. I'm in Fl but she was to be here in Dec.
Naturally, she didn't take a lot of info with her since she was flying away for 2 weeks. She had extensive work done
on her house all summer and just finished last month. Her home not an extra summer place.
Can't find the condition of her house because no one can get there yet. Hope all those people with destroyed homes had insurance.
by getting her some email/phone information. I'm in Fl but she was to be here in Dec.
Naturally, she didn't take a lot of info with her since she was flying away for 2 weeks. She had extensive work done
on her house all summer and just finished last month. Her home not an extra summer place.
Can't find the condition of her house because no one can get there yet. Hope all those people with destroyed homes had insurance.
#20
I heard they need warm clothing and perhaps a good coverlet. Maybe this could get organized so someone could get it shipped to them.
For any of you along the east coast in the middle of the mess, our hearts and prayers are with all of you. If there is ANYTHING at all we can do to help, let us know. Red Cross people are headed there this morning from other parts of the country, but we would like to help, too, in some way.
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