Hurricane Sandy

John Mayer Donates To Staten Island Disaster Recovery

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Well, the real story is what organization singer and songwriter John Mayer donated money to, for Staten Island Disaster Recovery: the Carl V. Bini Memorial Fund. The representatives of the Carl V. Bini Memorial Fund just sent this press release and video: The Carl V. Bini Memorial Fund (CVB Memorial Fund) has been coordinating disaster … Read more

Hurricane Sandy’s Aftermath: Occupy Sandy Offers Hope

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A tsunami of news flowing at a level of importance and urgency has the media in a frenzied attempt to stay current.  The political storm surge is as intense as the hurricane. Sandy had no boundaries. Working class folks merged with the One Percent from Ocean City Md. to northern Connecticut, as the entire coastline … Read more

Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts Beyond The Red Cross: Occupy Sandy

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The Red Cross is a great organization, but the problem with having everyone rely just on one company for disaster relief efforts, is it becomes overwhelmed beyond what it can handle. Moreover, the Red Cross has a tendency to “bank” some of its donation money for one effort, such that all of it doesn’t get … Read more

Raw Sewage On New York Streets After Hurricane Sandy

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New York City is facing what seems to be a large problem with raw sewage all over the streets after Hurricane Sandy. Several blogs are directly reporting the problem. For example, the blog Carroll Gardens Coalition for Respectful Development has photos of clumps of stuff on the streets, including used condoms. The blog reports: Due … Read more

Hand-Held Power Generators Needed For NJ, Staten Island, Manhattan

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As New York, New Jersey, and other nearby states recover from Hurricane Sandy, there’s a lot of emphasis placed on waiting for large utility companies to get power back to areas that have lost it. And while there are reports that this is happening rapidly in some places, that’s not the case in others. A … Read more

President Obama And Gov Christie Press Conference After Hurricane Sandy

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Here’s the much talked about President Obama and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie Press Conference held Wednesday after Obama toured the parts of NJ that suffered the worst damage. The President and his team, including the head of FEMA, want everyone to know they can call the Federal Emergency Management Agency and apply for monetary … Read more

President Obama Meets Gov. Christy In New Jersey After Hurrricane Sandy

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President Barack Obama landed in New Jersey to survey the extensive damage caused to the entire state by Hurricane Sandy. It’s estimated that 60 percent of New Jersey is without power. As this is written, the National Guard is in Hoboken, New Jersey, where there are 20,000 people trapped in their homes. There’s still a … Read more

New York Media Takes A Hurricane Sandy Big Hit

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Lost in the flurry of social media reports was the fact that New York, the media capital, was crippled in another way: its media outlets were rendered inactive. This was true for many large data center online publications like The Huffington Post and Mediaite. But many small blogs that used popular free services like Blogger, … Read more

In Brooklyn NY, Reports Of Residents Dealing With Flood And Damage

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While the worst of Hurricane Sandy is behind us, New Yorkers are dealing with the horror of a period with no power, food, or in many cases, the homes themselves. The blog The Brooklyn Ink reports that many Gerritsen Beach homeowners are using generators to dry out homes and pump water out of them as … Read more

New York West Village To Get Power In 4-10 Days: Occupied Air

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Live Video streaming by Ustream According to this new broadcast from Occupied Air, New York City’s West Village is expected to be one of the first areas to get power because of the “number of people who live in it.” Occupied Air’s hosts suffered from a terrible flooding of their apartment last night, and a … Read more

President Obama’s Statement on Hurricane Sandy

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In this video President Obama says that on Monday before Hurricane Sandy hit water, he had talked to all of the governors of all of the states that would be impacted, and issued declarations of disaster so they would receive the assistance they needed in a timely fashion. Would you believe George Bush’s FEMA Director … Read more

Smoke In Flooded NY Apartment During Hurricane Sandy (Video)

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Here’s an example of how mainstream media increasingly fails to give a comprehensive view of what’s happening during a disaster, and why social media has overtaken it. The USTREAM channel Occupied Air ran by Thorsten Caristo was used to broadcast the personal tragedy he and his wife (or girlfriend) were going through during Hurricane Sandy. … Read more

Hurricane Sandy Live Update

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Hurricane Sandy: Live Report (via AFP)

2322GMT: JUST IN – Sandy is due to make landfall within the next hour along the New Jersey coast, the US National Hurricane Center says. 2321GMT: In Chicago, authorities have issued a lakeshore flood warning. 2314GMT: My colleague Timothy Witcher reports that the East River has risen over the bank…

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