Rockaway Thanksgiving Meal Sites

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Enclosed are sites that have published Thanksgiving meals.  We recommend you contact for details on times/eligibility/availability.

Oceanside High School 3160 Skillman Ave Oceanside. 11-2 Oceanside Community Service and Interfaith Council. ***@***.***

Tomahawk District BSA dnner Nov 26 for their troop. ***@***.***. Seeking donations.

The Soup Ladies locatio TBA

Daily News Old Homestead Steak house. Bus transport.

Far Rockaway. 259 Doughty Road Inwood NY. 1-3. ***@***.***

Operation SurfinBird loc TBA

HipHop Summit Youth Thanksgiving Eve Feast 500 students and families Queens High School for Informatics, Research and Technology.

Far. Rockaway. Brian Piccolo Middle School volunteer Robin. 631 264 4980

Bethany Church 100 Main St. 1-4 516 599 5768

Dean Rich- St Raymonds Church Rectory 12-3. + emergency supplies

Occupy Far Rockaway 12 noon- 4 PM
Approx Beach 50 st and Edgemere

Susan's Perspective on Superstorm Sandy

This e-mail may be more stream of consciousness than anything else but I'll do my best to organize my thoughts.  I'll also include video links where I can.
  • Citizens did not follow the mandatory evacuation order because 
    • When they evacuated for Irene, they found that the places to which they evacuated were hit hard whereas the homes they left behind were fine.
    • Many residents live in highrises and feel that as long as the water doesn't reach their apartment, they'll be safe.  They stock up on batteries, food, water, and medication for a few days but not enough to sustain them for over a week without power.
    • Folks living in houses figured that if things got really bad, they could flee at the last minute.  They did not expect the water to flow in in such a violent fashion nor did they expect the water levels to rise as quickly nor as high as they did.  A friend of mine thought she was prepared because parked her car in her driveway facing outward.  I haven't been able to speak with her since Monday morning, but my guess is that her car is totaled and possibly has floated away.
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In Hurricane’s Wake, Decisions Not to Evacuate Hospitals Raise Questions

Patients are taken to ambulances outside of Bellevue Hospital during an evacuation on Oct. 31, in New York. Bellevue Hospital continued to evacuate its patients on Wednesday after flooding inundated the basement and knocked out electricity. (Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images)

Image: Patients are taken to ambulances outside of Bellevue Hospital during an evacuation on Oct. 31, in New York. Bellevue Hospital continued to evacuate its patients on Wednesday after flooding inundated the basement and knocked out electricity. (Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images)

propublica.org - November 1st, 2012 - Sheri Fink

At 9:30 p.m. Monday, Eugene Tangney burst into a meeting of doctors at the command center for Long Island's North Shore-LIJ hospital system. Ceiling tiles creaked in the wind and television screens showed images of Hurricane Sandy slamming into New York City.

"NYU called," Tangney said. "They want to evacuate. I don't know how to help them right now. They're in a panic mode."

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Superstorm Sandy: Surveying the Damage From the Sky

abcnews.go.com - November 1st, 2012

http://google.org/crisismap/2012-sandy-nyc

Sandy is a major storm that has caused extensive flooding, physical damage, power and transportation outages, and multiple fatalities in NY and much of the US East coast.

(GO TO THE SUPERSTORM SANDY GOOGLE CRISIS MAP - NEW YORK CITY)

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NOAA's Hurricane SANDY Response Imagery Viewer

      

NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey's remote sensing program conducts aerial photographic surveys the coast to document coastal damage and impacts to navigation. 

The data contained in these photos provide emergency and coastal managers with the information they need to develop recovery strategies, facilitate search-and-rescue efforts, identify hazards to navigation and HAZMAT spills, locate errant vessels, and provide documentation necessary for damage assessment through the comparison of before-and-after imagery.

http://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/storms/sandy/

Twitter Feed - #Sandy #NYC #NY

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