Yorkiemom1 | 11-03-2012 05:12 AM | As I listen to all this on TV about the hardships all these people are enduring, I am brought right back to what we went thru with Hurricane Ike...We were THREE WEEKS without power.....and we did not have the flood water to navigate.....please be strong, people are TRYING to get to you...they can NOT get through the obsticles....you have NOT been forgotten, we just cant get there! My cousin who went there with hundreds of others from States all over the South, to help restore your power......PLEASE be advised, THE UNION WORKERS FROM YOUR AREA, are refusing to allow these men that have come from hundreds of miles away to help, BECAUSE THESE MEN ARE NOT UNION WORKERS!!! They are being called "scabs"....OMG!!! ,,,,this is soooooooooooooo sad!!! I am listening to TV as I type...another bit of bad news.....INSURANCE! PLEASE TAKE PICS OF EVERYTHING YOU HAVE THAT IS RUINED...insurance companies are all talking warm and fuzzy right now, but let me tell you from PERSONAL experience, when it gets down to the actual nut cutting, they are NOT going to want to pay for even half your damage....and I had full replacement coverage....also, what you experienced with your storm surge that has been responsible for destroying your homes: bad news! Your property is NOT covered against storm surge!!! We went through that with all the homes that were COMPLETELY WASHED AWAY from Boliver, just like what you are experiencing on Staten Island....none of our homes were covered by insurance...we had flood insurance yes, but the INSURANCE COMPANIES dodged that bullet by announcing "storm surge is NOT a flood"....so we lost hundreds of millions of dollars because of THAT loop hole....you too will be seeing how THAT works! I think the verbage "STORM SURGE" needs to be dropped from the warnings ....people do NOT understand that term....People in New Orleans were told about a storm surge that would be catastrophic, GET OUT!!! They did not choose to leave, and many died and were stranded for weeks in flooded areas.....Ahead of Ike, people were told on Boliver to GET OUT!! a huge storm surge was the big threat....many did not listen, and they died as the storm surge rolled completely over Boliver, washing every single home, except for less than 10 homes, completely away. And now, the same thing has happened ahead of Sandy....people stayed, did NOT leave, and they died. I think TIDAL WAVE rather than storm surge...people know what a tidal wave is....storm surge has absolute no meaning to people....Katrina had a 28 foot storm surge, Ike had a 20 foot storm surge, and Sandy had a 14-16 foot storm surge.....these things are devastating, deadly....people just do NOT understand storm surge and just will NOT leave when told to. So sad.....and then the survivors are stranded because help can NOT get to you to restore power, bring food and water, etc....it is too late for all of these people....but PLEASE people, LEAVE ANY AREA OF MANDATORY EVACUATION when you are told to leave....if you do survive the initial on slaught, you just have NO idea and can NOT imagine the hardships you are going to have to endure because you chose to stay! HELP IS THERE, THEY JUST CAN NOT GET TO YOU!!! Try to be patient....be sure you turn off the gas in your home so that when power is restored, you dont have an explosion from the gas igniting. Hopefully, all these politicians who are today decending on the area, bragging about all they are doing to help all of you, TELL THEM TO BRING GENERATORS WHEN THEY COME!!! You NEED generators, to power up the service stations, so you can ACCESS the gas that has been delivered to all those gas stations that have NO power to pump the gas!!!! I am sorry for the long post, but I am also frustrated FOR you all...you are going through what we have already been through....I guess I am actually reliving my horror of Ike, watching the same thing we all experienced down here on the Gulf Coast, now becoming YOUR reality. God bless you all, and give you all the courage and strength you are going to need to get you through this. What lies ahead of you is going to be absolutely, completely unimaginable to you....you have to be strong in the days ahead...... |