Staten Island is the Lower Ninth Ward
If you haven't seen what's going on in working class Staten Island, please do yourself a favor and follow it. The parallels to Katrina and the blue collar, lower income residents of the borough are astounding.
They need help. But Wall Street isn't there, nor are any casinos.
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Here's one from Tuesday..
http://www.myfoxny.com/story/19950594/national-guard-on-staten-island
...We've known this was coming for like a week though - I think many people underestimated this storm and should have just moved as far inland as fast as possible once the order was given.
Surely inland areas were better supplied and have facilities that could provide shelter
"I read that there was a shelter in Staten Island."
A shelter? A? For all 500,000 residents?
She seems to think Staten Island is around the size of, say, City Island. of course, she doesn't know what or where City Island is either, so I guess that wouldn't help.
areas - and the scale of this disaster. Saying that Staten Island is like the Lower Ninth Ward is an instance of such silliness. Staten Island is much larger in population than the entire city of New Orleans.
And it is the SMALLEST borough in population. Queens has 2.25 million people in it. That's more people than each of the thirteen smallest states. In Queen alone. As I said, Staten Island, which is the SMALLEST borough in New York City by population, has a larger population than Atlanta, Georgia.
Just as a measure, consider this. I grew up in Queens. I went to elementary ("Public School"
in Queens. I went to Junior High School in Queens. I went to High School in Queens. My mother and our family have lived in Queens since the 1950's, and in Brooklyn before that, back to the 19th century. Before three days ago, I never in my life heard of Breezy Point, Queens, and I consider myself a bit of a NYC connoisseur.
NYC is massive, being the point. Most of the people on this thread can't seem to conceptualize the scale of even Staten Island, much less the expansive disaster that local, state, and federal authorities are dealing with just inside the five boroughs, much less Jersey, Nassau and Suffolk, Connecticut, Rhode island, and points west.
This thing is orders of magnitude worse than Katrina, and is being handled orders of magnitude better.
Because we have somebody competent in charge.
This is the teabagger capital of NYC. They are nothing more than a bunch of whiners, who think that their bowel movements smell like roses.
They often say that they want the government out of their business, but now they want FEMA to come and rescue them.
Give it a break already, they are no better than the rest of us and will have to wait their turn.
What's next, are the teabaggers in Bay Ridge gonna start whining?
I think it's time to call out the whaaambulance for them.
