Storm Surge is a feature documentary profiling selfless people who take extraordinary actions to help their respective communities rebuild and recover after experiencing the deadliest and most destructive disasters in American history – from super tornadoes, to the lingering impacts of hurricanes, oil spills, and the Great Recession.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Parts of the Rockaways were lined with oceanfront dream homes just months ago, but following Superstorm Sandy, they have been left falling apart.
“I looked at my husband and I remember saying, ‘I lost my business,’” said Lisa Jackson, a real estate agent with Rockaway Properties. “We lost so many homes.”
Jackson once showed shining houses on the sea. Now, she has no choice but to sell homes torn to pieces.
nytimes.com - by Sarah Maslin Nir - January 23rd, 2013
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It was too cold for Daniel Choi to stay in his storm-gutted home in Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn, so he left his two pet turtles, Michelangelo and Leonardo, behind to move in temporarily with friends. But on Wednesday, when he stopped by his home to feed them, he made an upsetting discovery. Plummeting temperatures in the still-heatless house had left the two turtles frozen under a sheet of ice.
State legislative leaders aren’t embracing Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s proposal to limit new casinos to three upstate locations -- and say Long Island and New York City should be in the mix.
Cuomo huddled with Senate and Assembly leaders for about 90 minutes Wednesday to discuss casinos and other issues. Afterward they said talks on an expansion of gambling were still “evolving.”
This song is for my fellow volunteers who did time in Rockaway, NY that first few weeks after Hurricane Sandy, and for all the folks who are struggling still in freezing/moldy homes, and within a system that needs to catch up to their life threatening needs, hear them out, and help them now, before another ice-block week passes.
Song for Rockaway (Ain't No One Here But Us Volunteers)
nytimes.com - by Michael M.Grynbaum - January 24th, 2013
This year’s campaign for New York City mayor was expected to turn on police tactics, education policy and economic development.
On Thursday, six of the leading candidates in the race found themselves discussing something different: mold.
The hazardous fungus, and its proliferation in homes and neighborhoods damaged by Hurricane Sandy, took center stage at a Brooklyn church during a forum on housing policy, an early clash in a race whose candidates are still looking for ways to stand out.
nytimes.com - by Alison Leigh Cowan - January 24th, 2013
Localities across the New York region, already reeling from the cost of cleaning up from Hurricane Sandy, are confronting the prospect of an even bigger blow to their finances: a precipitous decline in property tax revenues.
nydailynews.com - by Greg B. Smith - January 27th, 2013
Cast adrift by Hurricane Sandy, dozens of storm victims have been placed by the city in squalid SROs and fleabag hotels plagued by vermin, housing code violations and fire safety problems, a Daily News investigation has found.
People walk along a beach in the heavily damaged Rockaway neighborhood in the Queens borough of New York on Friday, November 16.
cnn.com - by Matt Smith - January 28, 2013
(CNN) -- The Senate approved more than $50 billion in aid to states battered by Superstorm Sandy on Monday, four weeks after a delay that sparked bipartisan fury from Northeastern lawmakers.
The money includes grant funding for owners of homes and businesses, as well as funding for public improvement projects on the electrical grid, hospitals and transit systems to prevent damage from future storms. In a statement from the White House, President Barack Obama said he would sign the measure "as soon as it hits my desk."
Image: A stretch of Front Street in the South Street Seaport area, a part of Lower Manhattan that continues to suffer from the effects of Hurricane Sandy. (Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times)
nytimes.com - January 21st, 2013 Hurricane Sandy slammed into New York and New Jersey nearly three months ago, and the grueling recovery effort continues with work being done to repair, rebuild and reopen shattered homes and businesses. But the process has been uneven, and there is ample evidence that many people are still struggling in the aftermath of one of the most vicious storms to hit the region. Following are snapshots of how some people and places are faring on the road back.
Video: David Lee Miller reports from Staten Island
Submitted by Samuel Bendett
news.yahoo.com - January 25th, 2013 - Perry Chiaramonte
The brutal cold snap affecting much of the country is taking a devastating toll on victims of superstorm Sandy, many of whom are camped out in tent cities or living in homes without power, heat or running water.
Those unable to get proper lodging have hunkered down in their homes without the basic necessities of heat, electricity, or running water.
“Many families in Union Beach are using space heaters to warm upstairs,” said Jeanette Van Houten, a resident from the small New Jersey town that was among the hardest-hit communities. “There’s people with no heat, no electric, but they are staying in the house because it’s better than having to deal with FEMA and having to leave hotels every two weeks.
gothamist.com - by Christopher Robbins - January 24th, 2013
Using language couched in euphemisms, Governor Cuomo is urging residents whose homes sit along coastlines and were destroyed by Hurricane Sandy to sell their property and "move on." "At one point, you have to say maybe Mother Nature doesn't want you here," the governor told the editorial board of the Daily News."Maybe she's trying to tell you something."
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