Mayor Bloomberg: 40,000 Need "Relocation"; Got Fema Camps?

[presence]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162...y-need-relocation/?tag=contentAux;mostPopular

Shivering victims of Superstorm Sandy went to church Sunday to pray for deliverance as cold weather settling in across the New York metropolitan region — and another powerful storm forecast for the middle of the week — added to their misfortunes and deepened the gloom.http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50134465nWith overnight temperatures sinking into the 30s and hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses still without electricity six days after Sandy howled through, people piled on layers of clothes, and New York City officials handed out blankets and urged victims to go to overnight shelters or daytime warming centers.
At the same time, government leaders began to grapple with a daunting longer-term problem: where to find housing for the tens of thousands of people whose homes could be uninhabitable for weeks or months because of a combination of storm damage and cold weather.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said 30,000 to 40,000 New Yorkers may need to be relocated — a monumental task in a city where housing is scarce and expensive

 

[ShaneEnochs]

Not in the way you're thinking.

 

[tod evans]

Hmmm, NY has how much of their own money set aside to cover such things?

This must be where those of us who disagree with NY politics are expected to pony up and foot the bill.

Get a rope!

 

[phill4paul]

The state of New York has 70 prisons with 70,000 inmates. Given that non-violent drug offenders make up about +50% of incarcerations he should just give amnesty to those that can prove they have a place to live. Then combine the violent offenders into certain prisons and open the others to Sandy refugees.

 

[donnay]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162...y-need-relocation/?tag=contentAux;mostPopular

After The Flood Comes The Freeze: Nor’Easter Approaches Threatening Homeless

After The Flood Comes The Freeze: “Tens Of Thousands Need Housing” Says Cuomo, As Nor’Easter Approaches

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
November 4, 2012

First the flood, now the freeze (and the lack of fuel and gas and heating just making it much worse). And for tens of thousands of residents of New York and New Jersey this means that as many as 40,000 will need to find alternative housing, especially ahead of Wednesday when a Nor’easter formation is expected to hit the Tristate area and bring even more freezing rain and cold to the region. From Reuters: “Tens of thousands of people affected by superstorm Sandy could soon need housing as cold weather descends on the state of New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday. Cuomo, in a televised press conference nearly a week after the storm hit the U.S. East Coast, said the fuel shortages are improving but problems will persist for “a number of days.”" Elsewhere, and also from Reuters: “Victims of superstorm Sandy on the U.S. East Coast struggled against the cold early on Sunday amid fuel shortages and power outages even as officials fretted about getting voters displaced by the storm to polling stations for Tuesday’s presidential election. Overnight, near-freezing temperatures gripped the U.S. northeast. At least two more victims were found in New Jersey, one dead of hypothermia, as the overall death toll from one of worst storms in U.S. history climbed to at least 112. Fuel supplies continued to rumble toward disaster zones and electricity was slowly returning to darkened neighborhoods after a storm that hit the coast last Monday. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it would be days before power is fully restored and fuel shortages end.”

All of this will be exacerbated as a Nor’easter moves along the Eastern Seaboard and is expected to hit New Jersey and New York in several days:

A “significant” nor’easter is likely to hit Sandy-battered areas of the Northeast by Thursday, the National Weather Service said in an update Sunday.



FEMA and Red Cross officials have ordered more resources ahead of the storm, while New York City is dealing with a shortage of fuel oil and steam to heat buildings as temperatures began dipping into the 20s and power remained out for hundreds of thousands.



At the very least, the service’s prediction center stated, there is “a very real possibility of heavy rain and strong winds along the coast from Virginia to Maine.”



Snow is likely in the interior and some models “do bring some snow all the way to the coast as far south as Virginia,” it warned.

Continued...

 

[KCIndy]

If they send me to a FEMA camp I promise to crap in the hallways, just like the apartment dwellers with no electricity in New York. So watch where ya step, roomies!

 

[jkr]

hmmm, sounds like a lot of work.
maybe the national guard can he...well, NEVER MIND!

 

[phill4paul]

Stop citizen! Only the government can keep you warm!

Members of the fire department extinguish a campfire built by people to keep warm in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, in New York City's Lower East Side on Wednesday night.

 

[tod evans]

WTF?

 

[donnay]

WTF?

While Bloomberg sits in his nice warm Mansion and drinks his Big Gulp no less.

If Bloomberg gave 1 million dollars to the Occupy Wall Street guys who are proving they can do the job helping disaster victims much more than the police, fire and Red Cross, I would have more respect for him. But he is a piece of shit and the bottom line is he doesn't give a shit for his fellow New Yorkers.

 

[presence]

Stop citizen! Only the government can keep you warm!

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The law chargeth no man with default where the act is compulsory and not voluntary, and where there is not a consent and election; and therefore if either there be an impossibility for a man to do otherwise, or so great a perturbation of the judgment and reason as in presumption of law man's nature cannot overcome, such necessity carrieth a privilege in itself.

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