Just as an aside, on the news tonight, while FEMA is giving lots of money to folks on Staten Island for housing, there is a housing shortage which may effect hotel availability and prices.
There was a town hall meeting which got pretty rowdy as Staten Island politicians wont allow FEMA trailers so people are living in their dangerously damaged homes without sewer or water
as they have no where to go....
This is heart breaking and should be on the local news nightly. Fema is doing a terrible job and Obama has his hands full, but he promised rapid relief. NYC is money town. Where are the uber rich in this? Major fundraising arm must be developed. We are seeing disasters everywhere and the money does not get to the problem. People around the country do not understand the enormity of this storm and the ongoing suffering because the news is doing a bad job of staying with the disasters. One can feel people think they are immune til mother nature destroys their town. I Imagine they are begging the country for 500 rv's when fema has 2000 and the space is their. I'd fire that fema director so fast his head would spin. People WILL freeze to death as the man feared. I hate most US news stations because they censor the news, have commercials. PBS is better. It seems one has to go online to really get any news. I recall when Al Jazeera was reporting more about Occupy Wallstreet while US news was blackedout.
I have no trailer nor fortune to buy, but there are many uber rich in NYC who could buy 500 trailers and barely notice the dent in their swiss bank accounts.
Are Americans now immune to disasters?
I've upped my contributions overall this year because of Sandy and I have decided this 3rd 'drive' is going to be my last for the year. I'm tapped out!