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"Let this year be over..."
(set 21 days ago)
Location: Where my bills arrive
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I just saw NBC Evening news reporting on the power outages with significant time sshowing Long Island and the public outrage towards LIPA. Governer Cuomo was shown speaking also, can't he show some passion or emotion like Gov Christie? He comes across (think in a calm monotone voice) that we are very upset and this is not acceptable. Come on rant/scream call LIPA for what it is. Nassau County leaders are calling for the National Guard to get the power fixed. Maybe this will finally get things rolling...I hope.
They certainly should have brought the National Guard to Long Island last week right after the storm, to provide mobile warming stations, food and water, and to direct traffic at the busiest intersections when drivers were driving like maniacs where there were no traffic lights; also to prevent the looting. Con Ed gave out dry ice to some city residents, for heaven's sake, not that I would want to see LIPA personnel giving out dry ice instead of making repairs.
National Guard should have been brought in a long time ago. People are desperate, freezing and stranded. We live in mid Suffolk and have friends who just got power back today. Gas station lines INSANE with people waiting up to 5 hours with toddlers in the car only to find out the station ran out of gas!
Places of business have been closed and so many out of work for a week. That cuts into rent and food money for so many people these days.
Looting, violence and pure desperation......calls for national attention!
I haven't seen the kind of disturbances I would think the manpower of the National Guard should be called in for. I'm sure there are compromised structures on the South Shore, without power, that are ripe for looting, but that's why we have a police force. Same thing goes for traffic control.
What we're seeing is an epic level of apathy and incompetence when it comes to our leadership. From schools that have been closed for extended periods for no good reason, to the still reduced service levels of the LIRR, we are not getting the level of service our property tax bills would suggest. Cuomo, who has been trying to turn the super storm into a PR win, has had little but rhetoric to offer those without electricity and gasoline. Much of it what he was saying was useless misinformation. The rest of our leadership has been missing in action.
If the National Guard was here, then they didn't send enough because we didn't see them at all in my neck of the woods.
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