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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| 6 months after Sandy, thousands homeless in NY, NJ |
| 2013-04-28 |
| [NEWS.YAHOO] The 9-year-old girl who got New Jersey's tough-guy governor to shed a tear as he comforted her after her home was destroyed is bummed because she now lives far from her best friend and has nowhere to hang her One Direction posters. A New Jersey woman whose home was overtaken by mold still cries when she drives through the area. A New York City man whose home burned can't wait to build a new one. 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. Tens of thousands of people remain homeless. Housing, business, tourism and coastal protection all remain major issues with the summer vacation -- and hurricane -- seasons almost here again. "Some families and some lives have come back together quickly and well, and some people are up and running almost as if nothing ever happened, and for them it's been fine," New York Gov. Andrew SonnyCuomo said at a news conference Thursday. "Some people are still very much in the midst of recovery. You still have people in hotel rooms, you still have people doubled up, you still have people fighting with insurance companies, and for them it's been terrible and horrendous." Lynda Fricchione's flood-damaged home in the Ortley Beach section of Toms River, N.J., is gutted; the roof was fixed just last week. The family is still largely living out of cardboard boxes in an apartment. But waiting for a final decision from federal and state authorities over new flood maps that govern the price of flood insurance is tormenting her and many others. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 No sympathy from me, I went from Mobile to Montgomery at 3 mph,low gear and stop and go all the way. Nearly creamed my truck and the car I was towing at least 4 times. I hope NEVER to go through that again. Shortly after that I gave up and moved back to Montgomery, I didn't lose my house, but the trip was enough. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-04-28 21:29 |
| #2 If this had happened under Bush, the MSM would have been screaming for his impeachment. Funny how deep it goes, the media running cover for the president. So much for a free and independent press. These guys don't need reporters all they have to do is publish the Democrats' talking points. No independent commentary, no quest for the truth, politics all the way. The 60s were so toxic to America all of these suck ups to the liberal socialists and the crazy crap socialist, atheist, anti American professors in academia all are children of the 60s and they have polluted our rational discourse beyond all recognition. It will take years to purge the system of these poisonous characters in the media and academics. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2013-04-28 18:18 |
| #1 Wonder what sort of property tax bills these non homeowners will get from their revenue hungry municipalities, hmmm??? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2013-04-28 16:24 |