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Rockaways Resilience Network Working Group

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This working group is focused on resilience efforts in Rockaway.

The mission of this working group is to focus on resilience efforts in Rockaway.

Working Group email address:

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Members

Albert Gomez Alisa Keesey Alison Thompson Amanda Cole Andrew Larsen ARFARF
Bob Ross bsteckler Cat Graham Christina Karaba EvertB Greg Horwitch
Jeff Williams John Hoffman John Wysham Jonathan Rose Kathy Gilbeaux Katie Rast
kevinjones Linton Wells Little Dennis Lulu Mayorga Maeryn Obley Mary Beth Harvey
mdmcdonald Melissa Berman Michael Gresalfi Michelle Cortez Mike Taylor Natalie West
Rahul Gupta Rebekkah Thompson Samuel Bendett spraissman Tom McGinn Walter Meyer

Email address for group

rockaways-resilience-network-working-group@m.resiliencesystem.org

Surviving Sandy - The Rockaway Recovery

Thank you to the residents of Belle Harbor for welcoming Team Rubicon into your homes and into your incredible community. Your willingness to work together with TR is providing many veterans the opportunity to serve again and the chance to heal. We are equally benefiting from this partnership - if not more - and we continue to learn from your strength and resilience. ~ Team Rubicon

Photo Montage by Joanna Lane of East End Cares

Here's my photo montage photographed yesterday 11/17 in the Rockaways, New York, 3 weeks after Hurricane Sandy, on a sunny Saturday afternoon. This is not another damage assessment video, it is about the people. Our mission was to meet with Chris and Cat, the Rapid Response Team from Humanity Road, who, together with other volunteers, had been supporting Monsignor Brown in the St. Francis de Sales Parish from the Church in Belle Harbor since the immediate aftermath.

MeiMei Fox Article: Heroes of Hurricane Sandy--And How You Can Help

"Yet amidst the devastation, angels walk. Here are just three whom I know personally, out of numerous individuals and organizations who heard the cry for help and came flying. I'm so impressed with what these everyday heroes have accomplished and how they serve as inspiration for us all" ~ MeiMei Fox

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/meimei-fox/heroes-of-hurricane-sandy_b_2141329.html?utm_source=Alert-blogger&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Email%2BNotifications

Dennis Saleeby and Michelle Cortez

 

Dennis Saleeby
Field Operations Director
NY Resilience System

Michelle Cortez
of Veggie Island
Beach 96th street and Rockaway Blvd

For the Volunteers of Rockaway

Published on Nov 17, 2012 by 

Hurricane Sandy - Rockaway Queens

HEART 911 has been working in Wantagh Long Island, Gerrison Brooklyn, Rockaway Queens and Staten Island helping our friends, neighbors and colleauges recover from Superstorm Sandy. Video is courtesy of Land of Nod inc

LIPA: Rockaways Too Damaged To Repair

Queens Borough President Helen Marshall and U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand toured the damage in the Rockaways.
Photo provided by the Borough President’s office.

queenstribune.com - by Natalia Kozikowska
November 15, 2012

With some residents approaching their third week without power, the Long Island Power Authority has removed the Rockaways from its power outage map, citing the area as simply too damaged by Superstorm Sandy to restore electrical service at this time.

Nick Lizanich, vice president of transmission and distribution at LIPA, said that restoring power in the Rockaways in its current condition could potentially create a dangerous situation because many of the homes that sustained flood damage contained massive amounts of water that came out of the ocean and Jamaica Bay, leaving electrical panels under water.

“When it is under water, especially sea water, you end up with salt contamination and debris contamination, such that if we were to try and put the power on, there is the possibility the house could catch on fire,” Lizanich said.

SOLAR POWER IN ROCKAWAY

Solar Rover showed up yesterday after driving a large solar array from Denver, Colorado. Here is the CEO of that company, John F. Spisak, describing what Solar power can do in times of emergency as well as all the time.

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