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Sun, 2012-11-11 06:46 — mdmcdonald
The Shelter working group will study and engage medium-term and long-term sheltering issues.

The mission of the Shelter working group is to study and engage medium-term and long-term sheltering issues affecting New Yorkers.

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Friends of Rockaway and New York Cares offering free mold assessment/remediation in Rockaway

Tue, 2013-01-15 06:34 — Amanda Cole

 

FriendsOfRockaway.org needs your help to spread the word to all of our family, friends, and neighbors, as well as other community activists and leaders like yourselves who can also spread the word.

As community leaders, it's crucial we advise Rockaway residents to not rush and build their walls back until they use this amazing opportunity for a free assessment before they will rebuild potentially over mold or wet surfaces.

At Gillibrand Urging, FEMA Extends Deadline for Thousands of Superstorm Sandy Victims Living in Temporary Hotels and Motels

Fri, 2013-01-11 21:00 — Kathy Gilbeaux

With Aid Set to Expire this Sunday, FEMA Provides Two-Week Extension for 2,400 New York Families Still Living in Hotels and Motels

gillibrand.senate.gov - January 11, 2013

Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) today announced that FEMA granted a two-week extension that allows an estimated 2,400 New York residents displaced from Superstorm Sandy to temporarily live in hotels and motels through January 27, 2013. With an upcoming deadline looming for displaced residents who would have been forced to leave their temporary shelters this Sunday, Senator Gillibrand pressed FEMA Administrator Fugate earlier this week to extend their stay as they continue to rebuild in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.

“This reprieve for New Yorkers displaced by the storm by FEMA is critically needed” said Senator Gillibrand. “We must ensure that families whose lives and homes have been uprooted by this unprecedented disaster have the emergency help and shelter they need to begin to rebuild. Congress must now fulfill its obligation and pass a fully funded disaster relief package to provide families and small businesses throughout the Northeast region the long term help required to rebuild.”

NYC Rapid Repairs / NYC Restore / conEdison - Restoring Service

Sat, 2012-12-01 21:14 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Gary Vroegindewey

http://uwua1-2.org/

NYC Rapid Repairs is a program to make your home safe for return. The City is working with contractors to assess damage to your home from Hurricane Sandy and make the necessary repairs so that you and your family can have safe power and heat in your home. NYC Rapid Repairs is a program for property owners in the five boroughs. If you rent your home and there are unsafe conditions, call 311.

To be eligible for this program, your home must be deemed structurally safe by the NYC Department of Buildings as denoted by a Yellow or Green placard on your door, or no placard at all. You can still sign up for NYC Rapid Repairs if there is a Red placard on your door, but additional repairs will be necessary before your home is deemed structurally safe. If you have any questions about what you need to do to transition your home from a Red to a Yellow or Green placard, call 311.

NYC Rapid Repairs (page 1 of 5 .PDF pages)
http://uwua1-2.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/CLICK-HERE-to-read-some-helpful-repairs-information.pdf

Investigation: Container Ships for Use as FEMA Housing?

Fri, 2012-11-30 07:00 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Dennis Saleeby

by Jim Hoffer - November 30, 2012

NEW YORK (WABC) -- FEMA has been struggling to find housing for thousands of people who can't live in their homes damaged by Hurricane Sandy.

Sources say the government is now looking at using some type of vessels for temporary housing in coastal areas where so many homes were destroyed.

Anger over a lack of temporary housing for storm victims appears to be growing.

Gerritsen Beach Residents Want FEMA Trailers

Thu, 2012-11-29 19:01 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Melissa Berman

by Jim Hoffer - November 29, 2012

GERRITSEN BEACH (WABC) -- There are serious, new questions about relief operations stemming from Hurricane Sandy.

FEMA is spending hundreds of millions of your tax dollars to buy trailers to provide emergency housing in case of disasters.

But with thousands of houses either destroyed or badly damaged by Sandy, why haven't those trailers been brought to our area?

Statistics - Hurricane Sandy - FEMA - By the Numbers

Thu, 2012-11-29 00:00 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by David Perez

For the most recent information from FEMA, click on the link below . . .

http://www.fema.gov/sandy

Post-Sandy Statistics

Wed, 2012-11-28 23:17 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Mike Taylor

Niederhoffer Foundation/MJE Sandy Relief - by Laura Egan - November 28, 2012

• 229,526 households applied for FEMA Assistance.
• 80,000 households eligible for FEMA temporary relocation assistance/extended hotel stay.
• 800 homes currently in the program from the Rockaways, about 2500 total.
• 6,000 homes on waiting list for NYC Rapid Repairs program.
• 12,000 LIPA meters still without power in the Rockaways = 12,000 families
• 6000 homes and 600 apartment buildings estimated still without power in NYC according to a different source (both current).
• 130,000 – total population of Rockaway Peninsula.
• 2,837 – number of homes in Breezy Point severely damaged by flooding. 111 completely burned.
• 1,800 – number of rooms on the average cruise ship (during Katrina, 3 vessels obtained for 6mth pd).
• 10% - average FEMA % of families that ‘fall between the cracks’ in the system.
• 57 – number of damaged substations that needed to be repaired by LIPA (4 were in the Rockaways)
• $664M – FEMA current spending on Sandy victims ( divide by applicants = $3K per home)

Peninsula Hospital Center - Closed

Mon, 2012-11-26 18:17 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

Surfers in Far Rockaway, Queens. More than 3.6 million people visited Rockaway Beach during swimming season last year.  Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

nytimes.com - by Sarah Maslin Nir - May 20, 2012

Summer is coming to the Rockaway Peninsula, the thin strip of land lapped on either side by Jamaica Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. And with the warmth will come the usual hordes who play and bask on its beaches, and, inevitably, suffer heatstroke, volleyball sprains, beach glass lacerations and near-drownings — the sorts of seaside scrapes that send people to the emergency room every season.

But this season, there will be one fewer hospital to deal with such traumas.

. . . Peninsula had such a dubious reputation that some residents said they had avoided it altogether. St. John’s asserts that despite a potential upsurge, it can handle the summer crush.

Nonetheless, hundreds of residents and former hospital employees gave impassioned testimony to the contrary before a panel this month at a legally required meeting on the closing; the panel included Dr. Nirav R. Shah, the state health commissioner.

Set up FEMA Emergency Alternative Housing in the Rockaways NOW

Wed, 2012-11-21 16:46 — Albert Gomez

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http://www.change.org/petitions/set-up-fema-emergency-alternative-housing-in-the-rockaways-now

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Why there are no Red Cross shelters in New York City

Tue, 2012-11-20 20:33 — Maeryn Obley

Cleaning up destroyed homes in Sandy's wake.

Image: Cleaning up destroyed homes in Sandy's wake.

Submitted by Naomi Rothwell

features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com - November 15th, 2012 - Katie Benner

What has been conspicuously absent from the areas of New York City hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy are shelters set up by the American Red Cross, an organization that as part of its mission statement provides shelter in times of disaster. The organization states in its shelter operations manual: "When large groups of people are temporarily displaced from their homes, the American Red Cross responds by opening and operating shelters."

In the immediate aftermath of the storm, the Red Cross held several emergency training sessions for shelter volunteers (I attended a November 2 session), telling classes that they needed to plan for a three-day stint away from home and be able to lift heavy loads.

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