A call for Help!!!
I just read this from Mixerman. Let's all do what we can to help. Thanks. Rocky
If you visit here READ THIS and help our Sandy brethren
As many of you know, I'm from New Jersey, and as such, I have a great many friends and family in the area. Most of New Jersey is without power. Half of Hoboken is flooded with sewage. Newark had no power to 240,000 people, and the last report I heard it was down to 100,000, but in a metropolis like Newark, that's a big problem.
There is no bread in the neighborhoods. Little food. Little water. Little gasoline. Traffic lights are out. Cell towers are nearly out of auxiliary power. The few people who have been spared blackout conditions are about to go dark to move the power to others who have been without power since the storm hit. So, even if you have a full tank of gas in your car (which in certain areas will be targets for siphoning), you can't get around anyway.
People can't go to work. Apparently, people in the more densely populated areas are getting progressively more aggressive, and as a result there have been curfews instituted.
The Holland Tunnel is filled with water. The Tappan Zee is closed. There is no Metro into NYC at the moment. Which leaves only the George Washington Bridge and the Lincoln Tunnel for getting in and out of the city.
The entire Jersey shore is a disaster. Entire neighborhoods have been wiped out. Some have been burned down, because flooding made it impossible for firefighters to get in.
To make matters worse, it's getting cold at night there.
People. This is one of the most densely populated areas in the world. President Obama, Gov. Christie, Mayor Bloomberg, Gov. Cuomo, Gov. Malloy, and FEMA are all on it. National Guard has been brought in to Hoboken to save the 20,000 residents surrounded by putrid sewage water. But really, everyone needs to send money to the Red Cross. $10 if that's all you can afford, and if you can't afford that, give something up for a day so that you can, but I would ask my fellow Wombians to donate so that we can all throw the force necessary at this disaster before it turns REALLY ugly.
You can text REDCROSS to 909-99 to donate $10 through your cell carrier. Or you can go to red cross.org to donate using other methods.
Look, just so you all understand. We can't even use our network of people here to help directly, because the people who are affected by this can't read this to tell us, because the people in our network in proximity to help directly are in the same situation, and as a result there's nothing we can do. No one can move. Nothing can get in or out. There's only one way to help at this point, and it's by donating money to the Red Cross. Not canned goods or clothes. Money.
Do it. And post to let us know that you donated (even if you're a lurker), so we can all feel like we're doing something proactive in an impossible situation.
Thanks,
Mixerman