KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
MATTHEW 16:1-4
1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
DAY 1 HURRICANE SANDY UPDATES
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DAY 2 HURRICANE SANDY UPDATES
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DAY 3 HURRICANE SANDY UPDATES
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DAY 4 HURRICANE SANDY UPDATES
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DAY 5 HURRICANE SANDY UPDATES
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DAY 6 HURRICANE SANDY UPDATES
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DAY 7 HURRICANE SANDY UPDATES-HAPPENINGS
ITS SUN NOV 4,12-8:30AM AND THE CLEANUP CONTINUES FROM HURRICANE SANDY.THE DEATH TOTAL I GOT SO FAR IS 113 DEAD AND STILL 2.5 MILLION WITHOUT POWER A WEEK AFTER HURRICANE SANDY STRUCK.AND NOTICE THE LAMESTREAM MEDIA HAS SAID NOTHING ABOUT ALL THE LOOTING GOING ON IN NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY.I BELIEVE THEY ARE SAYING NOTHING SO OBAMA DOES NOT LOOK BAD FOR THE ELECTIONS THAT HE CAN'T CONTROL THE LOOTING GOING ON.
STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES
LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)
THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.
MATTHEW 16:1-4
1 The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
DAY 1 HURRICANE SANDY UPDATES
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2012/10/updates-on-hurricane-sandy.html
DAY 2 HURRICANE SANDY UPDATES
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2012/10/no-ny-trading-today-again.html
DAY 3 HURRICANE SANDY UPDATES
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2012/10/day-3-hurricane-sandy-update.html
DAY 4 HURRICANE SANDY UPDATES
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DAY 5 HURRICANE SANDY UPDATES
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DAY 6 HURRICANE SANDY UPDATES
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DAY 7 HURRICANE SANDY UPDATES-HAPPENINGS
ITS SUN NOV 4,12-8:30AM AND THE CLEANUP CONTINUES FROM HURRICANE SANDY.THE DEATH TOTAL I GOT SO FAR IS 113 DEAD AND STILL 2.5 MILLION WITHOUT POWER A WEEK AFTER HURRICANE SANDY STRUCK.AND NOTICE THE LAMESTREAM MEDIA HAS SAID NOTHING ABOUT ALL THE LOOTING GOING ON IN NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY.I BELIEVE THEY ARE SAYING NOTHING SO OBAMA DOES NOT LOOK BAD FOR THE ELECTIONS THAT HE CAN'T CONTROL THE LOOTING GOING ON.
U.S. disaster relief in a race against freezing cold
By Joseph Ax and Jeanine Prezioso | Reuters – 12:02AM NOV 4,12
NEW
YORK (Reuters) - Fuel supplies headed toward disaster zones in the U.S.
Northeast on Saturday and a million customers regained electricity as
near freezing temperatures threatened to add to the misery of coastal
communities devastated by superstorm Sandy.The power restorations relit the skyline in Lower
Manhattan for the first time in nearly a week and allowed 80 percent of
the New York City subway service to resume, but more than a million
homes and businesses still lacked power, down from 3.5 million on
Friday.
The power outages combined with a heating oil shortage meant some homes could go cold as unseasonably frigid weather sets in. Forecasters saw temperatures dipping into the upper 30s Fahrenheit (around 3 degrees Celsius) on Saturday night with freezing temperatures expected next week.In Staten Island, the New York City borough whose half a million residents bore the brunt of Sandy, people tried to stay warm.
Tom Clark, 43, and family members were burning wood in a steel drum on their front yard. Clark said the family and their dogs planned to go stay at his mother-in-law's heated house.U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano visited Staten Island on Friday amid assertions by some angry residents that they had been ignored by emergency relief workers.The weather forecast remains bleak. An aggressive early-season "Nor'easter" storm was expected to hit the battered New England coast next week with strong winds and heavy rain.New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Saturday urged those without power and heat - especially the elderly and other vulnerable groups - to head to shelters where they could keep warm and receive food."Right now it's starting to really get cold," he said.In New York and New Jersey, more than 18,000 people remained in shelters, Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate said.
BLOOMBERG CRITICIZES UTILITY
"There's no heating oil around," said Vincent Savino, the president of Statewide Oil and Heating, which usually supplies 2,000 buildings across New York City. "I don't know how much fuel we have left: maybe a day or two."The post-storm chaos also threatened to jumble Tuesday's election, with President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney locked in a tight race.The storm's death toll rose to at least 110 with nine more deaths reported in New Jersey on Saturday, raising the total in that state to 22. Bloomberg put the New York City death toll at 41.Sandy killed 69 people in the Caribbean before turning north and hammering the U.S. Eastern Seaboard on Monday with 80 mile-per-hour (130-kph) winds and a record surge of seawater that swallowed oceanside communities in New Jersey and New York, and flooded streets and subway tunnels in New York City.Bloomberg praised utility Consolidated Edison for making "significant progress" in restoring power to customers, but warned New Yorkers that it would be days before everyone had electricity again and fuel shortages ended.But he had sharp words for the Long Island Power Authority, LIPA, which he said "has not acted aggressively enough" in its power restoration efforts, above all in the Rockaways, a beachfront community in the borough of Queens.New Jersey Governor Chris Christie ordered rationing that allows only half of all cars to buy gasoline each day."I was there (at the Jersey Shore) yesterday and I will tell you, it looked like we had been bombed," Christie said "There are homes in Bay Head on the beach that had been driven by the storm surge into the houses across the street."Obama won praise for the federal storm response but the devastation was so widespread that angry storm victims continued to appear on television days after landfall. The storm damaged or destroyed thousands of homes and displaced voters, forcing election officials to improvise at early polling stations.Christie ordered county clerks in New Jersey to open on Saturday and Sunday to accommodate early voters and ensure a "full, fair and transparent open voting process."Tight gasoline supplies have tested the patience of drivers - fistfights have broken out in mile-long lines of cars - but a reopened New York Harbor meant fuel was reaching terminals.To alleviate one of the country's worst fuel chain disruptions since the energy shortage in the 1970s, some 8 million gallons of gasoline and other petroleum products have been delivered since Friday, with much more expected this weekend, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said.
RUNNING ON EMPTY
Cuomo also announced the Defense Department would set up five mobile gas stations in the metropolitan area, providing people with up to 10 gallons of free gas. The New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs later said emergency personnel and first responder vehicles would have priority.At least 1,000 drivers queued up at the Freeport Armory in Long Island, only to be told the gasoline would not arrive for at least eight hours more, one driver said."There's just so many people getting very frustrated. People don't know what to do," said Lauren Popkoff, 49, a history teacher who had been in line for four hours.
Bloomberg said the fuel shortages would be easing soon.According to the U.S. Energy Informational Administration the number of dry stations in the New York metropolitan area plunged to 38 percent on Saturday from 67 percent on Friday. The U.S. Department of Energy confirmed on Saturday that most filling stations in the metro area had fuel.New York City gave its overstretched police by canceling Sunday's marathon, a popular annual race that had become a lightning rod for critics concerned it was a diversion of resources.People are also worried about crime. In one hard-hit Queens neighborhood, a garage full of debris stood open with a sign next to it reading: "LOOTERS WILL BE CRUCIFIED - GOD HELP YOU."
Obama visited FEMA headquarters in Washington for a briefing before heading to the Midwest on Saturday for a final weekend of campaigning. He told officials to cut through government "red tape" to help storm-hit areas.The Obama administration directed the purchase of up to 12 million gallons (45 million liters) of unleaded fuel and 10 million gallons of diesel, to be trucked to New York and New Jersey.The government also waived rules that barred foreign-flagged ships from taking gasoline, diesel and other products from the Gulf of Mexico to Northeast ports.Consolidated Edison, battling what it called the worst natural disaster in the company's 180-year history, restored electricity to many Manhattan neighborhoods, though some 11,000 customers on the island were without service.The company said 270,000 customers in New York City and Westchester County still had no power, down from nearly a million who were cut off by the storm.
(Reporting by Reuters bureaus throughout the U.S. Northeast; Writing by Daniel Trotta and Louis Charbonneau; Editing by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Vicki Allen)
The power outages combined with a heating oil shortage meant some homes could go cold as unseasonably frigid weather sets in. Forecasters saw temperatures dipping into the upper 30s Fahrenheit (around 3 degrees Celsius) on Saturday night with freezing temperatures expected next week.In Staten Island, the New York City borough whose half a million residents bore the brunt of Sandy, people tried to stay warm.
Tom Clark, 43, and family members were burning wood in a steel drum on their front yard. Clark said the family and their dogs planned to go stay at his mother-in-law's heated house.U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano visited Staten Island on Friday amid assertions by some angry residents that they had been ignored by emergency relief workers.The weather forecast remains bleak. An aggressive early-season "Nor'easter" storm was expected to hit the battered New England coast next week with strong winds and heavy rain.New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Saturday urged those without power and heat - especially the elderly and other vulnerable groups - to head to shelters where they could keep warm and receive food."Right now it's starting to really get cold," he said.In New York and New Jersey, more than 18,000 people remained in shelters, Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate said.
BLOOMBERG CRITICIZES UTILITY
"There's no heating oil around," said Vincent Savino, the president of Statewide Oil and Heating, which usually supplies 2,000 buildings across New York City. "I don't know how much fuel we have left: maybe a day or two."The post-storm chaos also threatened to jumble Tuesday's election, with President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney locked in a tight race.The storm's death toll rose to at least 110 with nine more deaths reported in New Jersey on Saturday, raising the total in that state to 22. Bloomberg put the New York City death toll at 41.Sandy killed 69 people in the Caribbean before turning north and hammering the U.S. Eastern Seaboard on Monday with 80 mile-per-hour (130-kph) winds and a record surge of seawater that swallowed oceanside communities in New Jersey and New York, and flooded streets and subway tunnels in New York City.Bloomberg praised utility Consolidated Edison for making "significant progress" in restoring power to customers, but warned New Yorkers that it would be days before everyone had electricity again and fuel shortages ended.But he had sharp words for the Long Island Power Authority, LIPA, which he said "has not acted aggressively enough" in its power restoration efforts, above all in the Rockaways, a beachfront community in the borough of Queens.New Jersey Governor Chris Christie ordered rationing that allows only half of all cars to buy gasoline each day."I was there (at the Jersey Shore) yesterday and I will tell you, it looked like we had been bombed," Christie said "There are homes in Bay Head on the beach that had been driven by the storm surge into the houses across the street."Obama won praise for the federal storm response but the devastation was so widespread that angry storm victims continued to appear on television days after landfall. The storm damaged or destroyed thousands of homes and displaced voters, forcing election officials to improvise at early polling stations.Christie ordered county clerks in New Jersey to open on Saturday and Sunday to accommodate early voters and ensure a "full, fair and transparent open voting process."Tight gasoline supplies have tested the patience of drivers - fistfights have broken out in mile-long lines of cars - but a reopened New York Harbor meant fuel was reaching terminals.To alleviate one of the country's worst fuel chain disruptions since the energy shortage in the 1970s, some 8 million gallons of gasoline and other petroleum products have been delivered since Friday, with much more expected this weekend, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said.
RUNNING ON EMPTY
Cuomo also announced the Defense Department would set up five mobile gas stations in the metropolitan area, providing people with up to 10 gallons of free gas. The New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs later said emergency personnel and first responder vehicles would have priority.At least 1,000 drivers queued up at the Freeport Armory in Long Island, only to be told the gasoline would not arrive for at least eight hours more, one driver said."There's just so many people getting very frustrated. People don't know what to do," said Lauren Popkoff, 49, a history teacher who had been in line for four hours.
Bloomberg said the fuel shortages would be easing soon.According to the U.S. Energy Informational Administration the number of dry stations in the New York metropolitan area plunged to 38 percent on Saturday from 67 percent on Friday. The U.S. Department of Energy confirmed on Saturday that most filling stations in the metro area had fuel.New York City gave its overstretched police by canceling Sunday's marathon, a popular annual race that had become a lightning rod for critics concerned it was a diversion of resources.People are also worried about crime. In one hard-hit Queens neighborhood, a garage full of debris stood open with a sign next to it reading: "LOOTERS WILL BE CRUCIFIED - GOD HELP YOU."
Obama visited FEMA headquarters in Washington for a briefing before heading to the Midwest on Saturday for a final weekend of campaigning. He told officials to cut through government "red tape" to help storm-hit areas.The Obama administration directed the purchase of up to 12 million gallons (45 million liters) of unleaded fuel and 10 million gallons of diesel, to be trucked to New York and New Jersey.The government also waived rules that barred foreign-flagged ships from taking gasoline, diesel and other products from the Gulf of Mexico to Northeast ports.Consolidated Edison, battling what it called the worst natural disaster in the company's 180-year history, restored electricity to many Manhattan neighborhoods, though some 11,000 customers on the island were without service.The company said 270,000 customers in New York City and Westchester County still had no power, down from nearly a million who were cut off by the storm.
(Reporting by Reuters bureaus throughout the U.S. Northeast; Writing by Daniel Trotta and Louis Charbonneau; Editing by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Vicki Allen)
FEMA still provides free housing in Joplin, 18 months after tornado
By Kevin Murphy | Reuters – 8:45AM NOV 4,12
JOPLIN, Missouri
(Reuters) - An affordable place to live in the wake of disasters such
as superstorm Sandy can become a long-term benefit, as some survivors of
the massive 2011 tornado in Joplin, Missouri, can attest.More than 17 months after the tornado that killed 161 people and destroyed more than 8,000 buildings, the Federal Emergency Management Agency still provides 142 furnished mobile homes free of charge to residents who have no permanent place to live.As thousands of
people displaced by Hurricane Sandy scramble for rental property and
hotel rooms in the U.S. Northeast, Joplin shows just how long it can take to recover fully from a major disaster.In the months after the Joplin tornado, FEMA
provided 586 mobile homes, most of them clustered in three remote sites
on the city's far north side. Today, 100 homes remain at those sites -
several miles from the bustle of a rebuilding Joplin. The other 42 are
scattered over several other private properties.While free, residents said the units are nothing like
home. Some residents told of financial and other problems that keep them
from finding permanent housing.The mobile home parks stand out for their sterile
appearance. Every unit is bright white. So are the porch railings, the
gravel driveways, even the fire hydrants."It's a place to live, but it's not really a place to
raise a family," said Angie Edwards, as her 6-year-old son, Cameron,
kicked a soccer ball against a concrete tornado shelter. "There's no
yard and there's not a bunch of other kids around to play with." It is
the only home her youngest child, age 1, has ever known.
RENTAL PAYMENTS TO START
As people found other places to live, units were removed and put up for auction. Those still in the FEMA homes will be expected to start paying rent on November 9.Federal law sets an 18-month limit on free housing after disasters. FEMA decided recently to allow people to stay in the housing until as late as next June at monthly rents of $757 for three-bedroom units and $595 for two-bedroom models. They can apply for a reduced rate, based on income and other factors, said Barb Sturner, a FEMA external affairs specialist.
"We are at the point in time where our residents need to begin resuming some self-sufficiency and part of that process includes paying for their own housing," Sturner said. FEMA has extended housing beyond 18 months in other recent disasters, including the Iowa floods of 2008. Homes were used for years after Hurricane Katrina.The free FEMA units were crucial to some tornado-displaced residents and helped stop Joplin's population from draining away, said City Manager Mark Rohr.FEMA granted the city's request to extend the mobile home program until next June because of a continuing shortage of affordable housing, Sturner said.Rohr reported recently that building permits were issued to replace 79 percent of the 7,500 homes and apartments destroyed in the tornado, with a lot of the work completed. In all, the city has issued $715 million in construction permits to recovery from the tornado, according to its figures.The Joplin Chamber of Commerce said that 446 of the 553 businesses destroyed in the tornado have either reopened or are in the process, which has restored several thousand jobs.
SOME NOT READY
But the rebuilding of Joplin has only gone so far for some of residents.Edwards, who does debris cleanup for the nearby city of Duquesne, Missouri, said she is unable to find rental property because she has seven children. "I have good credit, I have never fallen behind in payments but no one will give me a chance," she said.Leslie Armitage said she and her husband planned to move out this fall but recently learned that state assistance they expected in paying first and last month's rent is unavailable because of his income. She feels cramped in their two-bedroom home with two dogs. "I can't wait to get out, seriously," she said.James Williamson, who works two part-time jobs as a cook at fast-food restaurants, said residents of the FEMA units face a stigma."There are a lot of stereotypes about FEMA trailer people - no cars, free rent, free this, free that, people not working," said Williamson, who planned to move out as he pursues his GED and better jobs. "I'm a guy who believes in moving forward."Jason Calvin, whose lost his job as a cable TV account manager because of the tornado, said health issues and not being able to afford a car have hurt his chances of finding work. He is upset that FEMA will soon be seeking rent."I think that is totally asinine and ridiculous," Calvin said. "If we could afford $757 a month, we wouldn't need low-income housing."
The last bus from Brooklyn rolled into the Belle Harbor neighborhood of the Rockaways,
Queens, on Friday evening just before 6 p.m., as darkness slipped
quickly over the beach-town streets, obscuring curbside piles of
discarded furniture and electronics.No lights powered on inside the modest one and two-story houses, as they haven't for the past five nights, since Hurricane Sandy – a post-tropical cyclone with 80 mile-per-hour winds – struck this small peninsula and the greater New York City area and New Jersey on Monday, knocking out power for 3.5 million homes and businesses.When
the bus stopped, the 11 passengers scuttled out and set off for home,
without lingering on the normally commercial street. Residents describe
the Rockaways as a family friendly place, with certain pockets of rough
neighborhoods.But some people say Sandy's aftereffect of darkness
is making the area more dangerous, resulting in looting and at-home
robberies, despite an increased police presence.“I saw this guy
stealing televisions from a nursing home right on the boardwalk on
Tuesday, and the workers were chasing him up the street,” said Ben
Cooper, who lives in Belle Harbor. “Every time I saw him he had a
different TV.”
Back in the Rockaways, about 20 blocks away from Belle Harbor, Candice Dugar waited in line for soup nearby a well-lit police precinct. She said she heard about a break-in at a sneaker store, Lee's, and a local convenience store nearby a group of public housing projects.Melvin Flemings said a group of men looted a liquor store near the police precinct in this neighborhood, Rockaway Park, and are now selling the alcohol on the beach.Not everyone in the neighborhood has heard of looting and robberies since Sandy.“I haven't heard anything, but if they are taking from the grocery stores, it's because they need it,” said Rebecca Kelly talking as she ate a cup of soup. “There's no grocery stores open.”The community center, one of several that have popped up since Sandy, was one of the few places lit as the night thickened and the streets cleared of people. It's powered by solar panels from a Greenpeace truck, which arrived Thursday with groups of volunteers and former Occupy Wall Street demonstrators.Two local women helped out inside the center, passing out food and clothing. They waited until after 10 p.m. for friends to accompany them on their 5 minute walk home. They are afraid of more than just petty crime, a concern they never had before they lost electricity.One older woman, who asked only to be identified by her first name, Rosemary, said someone tried to break into her house early Tuesday morning when she was asleep. Today, she found her front door frame ripped off.“Everything is dark. People take advantage of that factor. It's only normal. It's not only here,” she said.Beatrice Loperfito witnessed two separate attempted home robberies last night. “I heard them breaking windows and I went out with my flashlight. These guys ran and the cops came.”She said she is more worried, though, about the two convicted rapists living on her block.“I have to protect myself. I have nothing else to give but myself. Everything else is all gone,” she explained.The women and the rest of the volunteers eventually left and the lingering community center volunteers locked its doors close to 11 p.m., leaving bread and water outside.Inside, the roaming police cars' blue and red beams reflected through the center's glass doors and onto a wall throughout the night.In the morning, sunlight faded in slowly at 7 a.m. On the main drag in Belle Harbor, small groups of people huddled, waiting for express buses to Brooklyn and Queens.
LOOTING IN NEW YORK-RESIDENTS ARM THEMSELVES
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/queens-residents-arm-looters-article-1.1196031
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2227307/Hurricane-Sandy-Misery-2-5-million-STILL-power-days-lawlessness-fear-over.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/03/hurricane-sandy-coney-island_n_2069243.html
RENTAL PAYMENTS TO START
As people found other places to live, units were removed and put up for auction. Those still in the FEMA homes will be expected to start paying rent on November 9.Federal law sets an 18-month limit on free housing after disasters. FEMA decided recently to allow people to stay in the housing until as late as next June at monthly rents of $757 for three-bedroom units and $595 for two-bedroom models. They can apply for a reduced rate, based on income and other factors, said Barb Sturner, a FEMA external affairs specialist.
"We are at the point in time where our residents need to begin resuming some self-sufficiency and part of that process includes paying for their own housing," Sturner said. FEMA has extended housing beyond 18 months in other recent disasters, including the Iowa floods of 2008. Homes were used for years after Hurricane Katrina.The free FEMA units were crucial to some tornado-displaced residents and helped stop Joplin's population from draining away, said City Manager Mark Rohr.FEMA granted the city's request to extend the mobile home program until next June because of a continuing shortage of affordable housing, Sturner said.Rohr reported recently that building permits were issued to replace 79 percent of the 7,500 homes and apartments destroyed in the tornado, with a lot of the work completed. In all, the city has issued $715 million in construction permits to recovery from the tornado, according to its figures.The Joplin Chamber of Commerce said that 446 of the 553 businesses destroyed in the tornado have either reopened or are in the process, which has restored several thousand jobs.
SOME NOT READY
But the rebuilding of Joplin has only gone so far for some of residents.Edwards, who does debris cleanup for the nearby city of Duquesne, Missouri, said she is unable to find rental property because she has seven children. "I have good credit, I have never fallen behind in payments but no one will give me a chance," she said.Leslie Armitage said she and her husband planned to move out this fall but recently learned that state assistance they expected in paying first and last month's rent is unavailable because of his income. She feels cramped in their two-bedroom home with two dogs. "I can't wait to get out, seriously," she said.James Williamson, who works two part-time jobs as a cook at fast-food restaurants, said residents of the FEMA units face a stigma."There are a lot of stereotypes about FEMA trailer people - no cars, free rent, free this, free that, people not working," said Williamson, who planned to move out as he pursues his GED and better jobs. "I'm a guy who believes in moving forward."Jason Calvin, whose lost his job as a cable TV account manager because of the tornado, said health issues and not being able to afford a car have hurt his chances of finding work. He is upset that FEMA will soon be seeking rent."I think that is totally asinine and ridiculous," Calvin said. "If we could afford $757 a month, we wouldn't need low-income housing."
Williamson and some other residents, do not fault FEMA."I'm in total agreement with them charging rent," said
Williamson. "With the other price-gouging that went on after the
tornado, I don't see how people can complain about what they have out
here."Johnny Straine said living in the FEMA park was an improvement over his prior residence."It was a big plus for me because before this I was
living in a motel room and you couldn't even sleep in that place, with
music going day and night," Straine said.Several residents complained about burglaries, drug
activity and other crime in the FEMA parks, but police said that has
subsided. The number of calls to police dropped from 219 in October 2011
to 32 last month, said Joplin Police Lieutenant Matt Stewart.There is a
community center in one of the FEMA parks where various public and
private agencies offer help seeking jobs, housing, transportation and
other services. Every Monday free dinners are served. FEMA also helps
people look for new housing."They are giving us
every opportunity to get better," said Michael Anthony, who lives in
one of the FEMA units. "If you are in one of these FEMA trailers and are
not doing drugs or an alcoholic, you will be able to step up from
this."(Editing by Greg McCune and Eric Walsh)
New Jersey shore declares martial law
Sun Nov 4, 2012 3:11PM
Debris
lies on the beach near the Casino Pier that was partially destroyed by
Superstorm Sandy on November 1, 2012 in Seaside Heights, New Jersey.
The boardwalk
town of Seaside Heights in New Jersey has declared martial law in the wake of
damage from Sandy.6 Action News,
the ABC affiliate based out of Philadelphia, reported that the fact, while
showing the damage to rides and attractions in the area. Several other nearby
towns are also under martial law, with the devastation to property and lives not
yet clear.“We know people
are there, we’re keeping an eye on them, and they need to stay on their
property. If they come off their property to come off the island, then they
don’t get back on. It’ll be a while before anybody gets back on the island until
we make it safe,” Toms River Police Chief Mike Mastronardy told the
station.Police are
conducting door-to-door sweeps to check for dead bodies and evacuate
survivors.Several video
feeds show the damage to the pier and its attractions, as well as to the homes,
many of which were reduced to splinters or heavily damaged by
flooding.Meanwhile, local
communities in the flooded Susquehanna Valley in Pennsylvania have made
emergency declarations and is “pondering martial law.” For the time being,
curfews have been enforced in towns including Wilkes-Barre and West Pittston in
the area.City council in
Wilkes-Barre authorized Mayor Tom Leighton to “take any necessary action,” which
includes martial law, according to CitizensVoice.com. Prison
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State troopers
are being deployed in greater numbers at gas stations along the New Jersey
Turnpike and Garden State Parkway, where stocks of gasoline are beginning to run
low, causing frayed nerves and high angst on the third full day of massive power
outages that industry analysts don't expect will be fixed too soon. Natural
News.Frustration with
dwindling supplies of gasoline and other necessities of life is beginning to
boil over in the tri-state region of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, the
states hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy-caused power outages. Fox
News.Officials say
better than half of all gas stations in the New York City area and New Jersey
are not operating - either because they don't have fuel or because they don't
have the electricity to operate their pumps. Natural News.The U.S. death
toll from the storm is currently 107, including 41 in New York City. More than
2.2 million customers in several states remained without power days after Sandy
came ashore. CBS News.About 875,000
still don't have electricity in the New York metropolitan area, including about
460,000 on Long Island. CBS News AGB/ARA
Hurricane Sandy's darker side: Looting and other crime
Residents say the Rockaways is a family friendly place. But Hurricane Sandy's aftereffects are making the area more dangerous, with looting and robberies, despite an increased police presence.
By Amy Lieberman | Christian Science Monitor – 9AM NOV 3,12
IN PICTURES: Sandy: Chronicle of an unrelenting storm
Mr. Cooper
and a few friends stood talking on his house's porch. It was about 7:45
p.m. and they were the only people around. The ocean breeze was getting
colder and stronger. He held his flashlight and looked out onto the
street, which was still covered with sand.“There's no lights, there's no cameras, there's no alarms, there's no nothing. It's kind of scary, you know?” he said.His
neighbor, Talentin Gutierez showed a reporter a borrowed generator,
worth about $2,000. His was robbed the other day. Tonight, he will
sleep in his car – wrecked from water damage – to guard the generator.An hour later, a New York City Police Department
officer looked on as four National Guards unloaded cases of bottled
water and ready-to-eat emergency food packs outside a recently launched community center half a block away.Looting and robberies have been up across all of New York City since Sandy hit, said the officer.In Far Rockaway Peninsula, 15 people were charged with looting businesses on Wednesday. Reported arrests in Manhattan, Coney Island, Brooklyn, and Staten Island for looting at businesses like supermarkets and sneaker stores totaled 20 last week.An
NYPD spokesperson said in a phone interview that a team is currently
investigating how the blackout for swaths of the city has impacted
looting and robbery rates in New York City.In New Jersey, the Monmouth County prosecutor was quoted as saying that police made 25 arrests for burglaries and looting incidents. But Governor Chris Christie has said that there is no evidence of widespread looting in the state.Back in the Rockaways, about 20 blocks away from Belle Harbor, Candice Dugar waited in line for soup nearby a well-lit police precinct. She said she heard about a break-in at a sneaker store, Lee's, and a local convenience store nearby a group of public housing projects.Melvin Flemings said a group of men looted a liquor store near the police precinct in this neighborhood, Rockaway Park, and are now selling the alcohol on the beach.Not everyone in the neighborhood has heard of looting and robberies since Sandy.“I haven't heard anything, but if they are taking from the grocery stores, it's because they need it,” said Rebecca Kelly talking as she ate a cup of soup. “There's no grocery stores open.”The community center, one of several that have popped up since Sandy, was one of the few places lit as the night thickened and the streets cleared of people. It's powered by solar panels from a Greenpeace truck, which arrived Thursday with groups of volunteers and former Occupy Wall Street demonstrators.Two local women helped out inside the center, passing out food and clothing. They waited until after 10 p.m. for friends to accompany them on their 5 minute walk home. They are afraid of more than just petty crime, a concern they never had before they lost electricity.One older woman, who asked only to be identified by her first name, Rosemary, said someone tried to break into her house early Tuesday morning when she was asleep. Today, she found her front door frame ripped off.“Everything is dark. People take advantage of that factor. It's only normal. It's not only here,” she said.Beatrice Loperfito witnessed two separate attempted home robberies last night. “I heard them breaking windows and I went out with my flashlight. These guys ran and the cops came.”She said she is more worried, though, about the two convicted rapists living on her block.“I have to protect myself. I have nothing else to give but myself. Everything else is all gone,” she explained.The women and the rest of the volunteers eventually left and the lingering community center volunteers locked its doors close to 11 p.m., leaving bread and water outside.Inside, the roaming police cars' blue and red beams reflected through the center's glass doors and onto a wall throughout the night.In the morning, sunlight faded in slowly at 7 a.m. On the main drag in Belle Harbor, small groups of people huddled, waiting for express buses to Brooklyn and Queens.
BLOOMBERG: LOOTERS WILL BE PUT IN INTERNMENT CAMPS Can he do this?
byrdie.marquez
November 04, 2012
NEW
YORK – Mayor Bloomberg told New Yorkers that anyone looting during
Hurricane Sandy will be put in internment camps in upstate New York.
In a press conference this afternoon, Mayor Bloomberg again urged residents in evacuation areas to leave immediately. The Mayor was told that a number of residents were hesitant to leave because they were worried about looters.
Mayor Bloomberg shocked reporters when he said that the National Guard would round-up any looters and take them to internment camps in upstate New York. “We have installed a zero tolerance policy for looters. If you loot, you will be put in an internment camp for six months – at the minimum.”
Reporters questioned the constitutionality and legality of imprisoning looters, but Mayor Bloomberg said, “We have the full support of the Obama Administration. Looters will be placed in these camps and some may even be deported.”
“You are going to deport Americans?” asked John Quimby of The Daily News. “Yes, we will figure out where the looters ancestors came from and ship them off to that country. President Obama and I agreed that it’s time to clean up our cities, and our country, and Hurricane Sandy will give us a good opportunity to do so.”
There have been rumors for the last two years that the U.S. Government has been building internment camps in every state.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has also signed-off on the internment camps. Governor Cuomo said he met with the National Guard to review strategy. He has deployed several units to help with the storm, and several more to round-up looters.
Mayor Bloomberg also had dire warnings for people riding elevators during the storm. “If you get into an elevator during the storm, we will get you out, but you will be sent to an internment camp.” Bloomberg said that the government can no longer tolerate citizens who do not do exactly what the government tells them to do. “New York City is no place for rebels. If you want to defy our orders, you will be sent to a camp. “
The Mayor says he will send any “defiant New Yorker” to the internment camps. “Zero tolerance,” he repeated.
The Mayor said he will be compassionate to some looters. Mild looters (products under $5) will be offered the opportunity of being sent to New Jersey instead of going to an internment camp – but the Mayor expects few people to choose that option.
Left-wing activist attorney, Ron Kuby, objected to the threat of arresting and imprisoning looters. “This is America, this is not communist Russia. I believe the whole hype around the storm is an attempt by the U.S. government to practice their draconian methods for controlling the populace in case of a revolution. I will not allow ANY looter to be sent to an interment camp.”
Ron Kuby was arrested and sent to upstate New York.
What will the looters be forced to do at the internment camps? Mayor Bloomberg isn’t saying… but he had an evil grin.
In a press conference this afternoon, Mayor Bloomberg again urged residents in evacuation areas to leave immediately. The Mayor was told that a number of residents were hesitant to leave because they were worried about looters.
Mayor Bloomberg shocked reporters when he said that the National Guard would round-up any looters and take them to internment camps in upstate New York. “We have installed a zero tolerance policy for looters. If you loot, you will be put in an internment camp for six months – at the minimum.”
Reporters questioned the constitutionality and legality of imprisoning looters, but Mayor Bloomberg said, “We have the full support of the Obama Administration. Looters will be placed in these camps and some may even be deported.”
“You are going to deport Americans?” asked John Quimby of The Daily News. “Yes, we will figure out where the looters ancestors came from and ship them off to that country. President Obama and I agreed that it’s time to clean up our cities, and our country, and Hurricane Sandy will give us a good opportunity to do so.”
There have been rumors for the last two years that the U.S. Government has been building internment camps in every state.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has also signed-off on the internment camps. Governor Cuomo said he met with the National Guard to review strategy. He has deployed several units to help with the storm, and several more to round-up looters.
Mayor Bloomberg also had dire warnings for people riding elevators during the storm. “If you get into an elevator during the storm, we will get you out, but you will be sent to an internment camp.” Bloomberg said that the government can no longer tolerate citizens who do not do exactly what the government tells them to do. “New York City is no place for rebels. If you want to defy our orders, you will be sent to a camp. “
The Mayor says he will send any “defiant New Yorker” to the internment camps. “Zero tolerance,” he repeated.
The Mayor said he will be compassionate to some looters. Mild looters (products under $5) will be offered the opportunity of being sent to New Jersey instead of going to an internment camp – but the Mayor expects few people to choose that option.
Left-wing activist attorney, Ron Kuby, objected to the threat of arresting and imprisoning looters. “This is America, this is not communist Russia. I believe the whole hype around the storm is an attempt by the U.S. government to practice their draconian methods for controlling the populace in case of a revolution. I will not allow ANY looter to be sent to an interment camp.”
Ron Kuby was arrested and sent to upstate New York.
What will the looters be forced to do at the internment camps? Mayor Bloomberg isn’t saying… but he had an evil grin.
LOOTING IN NEW YORK-RESIDENTS ARM THEMSELVES
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/queens-residents-arm-looters-article-1.1196031
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2227307/Hurricane-Sandy-Misery-2-5-million-STILL-power-days-lawlessness-fear-over.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/03/hurricane-sandy-coney-island_n_2069243.html
