The People of New York, New Jersey, and All the People of Storm Beaten Eastern USA NEED YOUR HELP NOW

This is Too Big for the people to handle on their own, and they seriously need everyone's help.  $10, $5. even $1. will help...  If only 1 million of us give a simple $10 donation, that will be 10 million dollars going to help these victims.

I went through Hurricane Iniki, on the island of Kaua'i, so I know, first hand, how badly they need help.  They need towels, deodorant, clothing, blankets, temporary shelters, food, water... even a hug.  Every little bit all adds up, and the Red Cross is the one that does the most to help in times like this, but without our help, the Red Cross cannot offer the things and support these people so very, very badly need RIGHT NOW.

You can help by going to: http://redcross.org, or call 800-HELP-NOW (800-435-7669)
If you are in the USA you can text REDCROSS to 90999 to make an automatic, one time donation of $10.
If you're a "think different" Mac person, go to: itunes.com/redcross
or Twitter #SandyHelp

Update: The cell number and contact info above was from a wonderful telethon our local television station was showing last night (Nov 2nd)

I'm not sure if all of them still work; they should, but if not, I know that http://redcross.org will always be a good place to donate, and if you are not comfortable with donating to the red cross, then do it through your church, or the salvation army, or whatever your choice is, but I know from experience of having been a hurricane victim years ago, it was the Red Cross and National Guard that helped us the most.

ANY help at all... Even $1. will help a LOT.

Please Help...  They won't make it without our help...

Believe me, they don't need your distant sympathy; they need your HELP

Alabama Power Company says it Recalled Workers due to Union Membership Requirement

This is Politics and Corporations at their best!!???  They say, "While the crew waited in Virginia, Seaside reportedly received the assistance it needed elsewhere."  WHAT???!!! ..."received the assistance it needed".....  That just CANNOT be true!!!  THE NY and NJ PEOPLE NEED HELP NOW!  All the help they can get!  Anyone coming to lend any kind of help they can give should be able to get through; not suddenly have their state or company call them back over union issues.  THIS IS A HUMAN ISSUE; NOT UNION, OR POLITICAL!!!  This is disgusting!  I must add here, that just the other day, (like him or not) our President assured us all that there would be NO red tape or politics when it came to helping the victims of Hurricane Sandy.  This IS red tape, and it prevented the good hearts of these electric workers from helping...

(Below is the report from the "PolitickerNJ")

A six-man utility crew from Alabama returned South today because of what the company said was a requirement that workers agree to join an electrical workers union before being allowed to aid with power restoration in New Jersey.

In a statement, Decatur Utilities of Huntsville, Ala. said they sent a crew to work in Seaside Heights, but held them in Virginia while it clarified paperwork the company understood to be a requirement that its workers join IBEW before aiding crew here.  While the crew waited in Virginia, Seaside reportedly received the assistance it needed elsewhere.  However "uncertainty" over the union requirement "that we could not agree to" caused the company to recall its workers.

An intial report from an Alabama television station said the workers were "turned away" when they got to New Jersey, however Decatur said their workers never got that far north and turned back because of the union requirement.

More than a million people in the state remain without power.  A spokesman for the governor said today that no crews have been turned away and spokesmen for both JCP&L and PSE&G have said they are taking all offers of aid.

Below is the text of the full release from Decatur:

Decatur Utilities sent a 6-man crew to the Northeast Wednesday October 31st, bound for Seaside Heights, NJ to assist with power restoration. Communications with Seaside Heights was poor due to lack of cell phone service in the area.  Upon arriving at a staging area near Virginia, crews were held in place pending clarification of documents received from IBEW that implied a requirement of our employees to agree to union affiliation while working in the New York and New Jersey areas.  It was and remains our understanding that agreeing to those requirements was a condition of being allowed to work in those areas.  As we waited for clarification, we became aware that Seaside Heights had received the assistance they needed from other sources.  To be clear, at no time were our crews "turned away" from the utility in Seaside Heights.

In connection with state and regional public power associations, Decatur Utilities attempted to contact other areas that needed assistance.  However, based on the uncertainty of union requirements that we could not agree to and the uncertainty of whether a resolution could be reached, we ultimately made the decision to return them to Decatur after being stalled in Virginia are most of the day on Thursday.

SHOCK: 72 Hours After Grid-Down: Starvation, Supply Shortages, Food Lines, No Clean Water, No Gas, Transportation Standstill *Independent Reports, Pics, Video*

A recent study noted that the majority of people have enough food in their pantries to feed their household for about three days and that seemingly stable societies are really just nine meals from anarchy. With most of us dependent on just-in-time transportation systems to always be available, few ever consider  the worst case scenario.
For tens of thousands of east coast residents that worst case scenario is now playing out in real-time. No longer are images of starving people waiting for government handouts restricted to just the third-world.
In the midst of crisis, once civilized societies will very rapidly descend into chaos when essential infrastructure systems collapse.
Though the National Guard was deployed before the storm even hit, there is simply no way for the government to coordinate a response requiring millions of servings of food, water and medical supplies
Many east coast residents who failed to evacuate or prepare reserve supplies ahead of the storm are being forced to fend for themselves.
Frustration and anger have taken hold, as residents have no means of acquiring food or gas and thousands of trucks across the region remain stuck in limbo.
Limited electricity has made it possible for some to share their experiences:

Via Twitter:

• I was in chaos tonite tryin to get groceries…lines for shuttle buses, only to get to the no food left & closing early
• I’m not sure what has shocked me more, all the communities around me destroyed, or the 5 hour lines for gas and food.
• Haven’t slept or ate well in a few days. Hope things start getting better around here soon
• These days a lot of people are impatient because they’re used to fast things. Fast food, fast internet, fast lines and fast shipping etc.
• Glad Obama is off to Vegas after his 90 minute visit. Gas lines are miles long.. Running out of food and water. Great Job
• Went to the Grocery store and lines were crazy but nail salon was empty so I’ve got a new gel manicure and some Korean junk food
• So f*cking devastated right now. Smell burning houses. People fighting for food. Pitch darkness. I may spend the night in rockaway to help

Things are starting to become horrific for the unprepared, as food lines stretch for miles and Meals-Ready-To-Eat are in short supply:

 

(above images via Gothamist)

With mass transit out of service and no gas, residents have no choice but to commute by foot. Survival Blog founder James Rawles has referred to the masses of starving people who will roam the streets in a post-collapse world as the Golden Horde – here’s a small taste of what that will look like:

The situation has become so desperate that some have been forced to resort to rummaging through the garbage for food:

Video:

“We’ve seen everyone here from the elderly, to families with children…”

A simple survival kit and some basic hurricane preparedness would have prevented days of heartache for residents of stricken areas.
The vast majority of those waiting in mile-long long food lines, rummaging through the trash, and criticizing their government officials for a slow and insufficient response have no one to blame but themselves.
This may be harsh – but it’s true.
We wish all those having a difficult time dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy the best going forward. Perhaps it will be a wake-up call for the rest of the nation.
Hurricane Sandy, while disastrous, is not nearly as bad as it could have been.

It has happened before. It will happen again. Prepare or suffer the consequences.

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Unrest growing among NJ, NY citizens: Dumpster diving for food, fist fights over fuel, tempers flare in Sandy aftermath

(NaturalNews) The first 72 hours after a natural disaster are the "polite" hours. Residents operate under the illusion that Big Government will soon save them with emergency supplies: food, water, fuel, clothing and more. So they follow the rules and "play nice."

After about the third day, all those social niceties start to erode. People are hungry and angry. There's a feeling of desperation and even abandonment. What seemed to be a polite society two days earlier suddenly becomes more sinister. The survival needs of individuals begin to outweigh social boundaries, and what emerges is desperation... even panic.

"Dwindling gasoline supplies are causing frayed nerves as the region endures its third full day with massive power outages." reports Fox News. "Frustration with gas supplies topped the list of issues causing tensions to boil over in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, the states hardest hit by power outages in the wake of superstorm Sandy. Residents jockeyed for fuel at the few stations still pumping, searched store shelves in vain for batteries, struggled with sporadic cell phone service and found themselves unable to buy necessities at supermarkets."

State troopers have now been deployed to gas stations in an effort to head off near-riots as citizens lose patience and tempers flare.



On Twitter, fist fights are being reported over fuel shortages. Police have had to draw guns on some people, reports Brietbart.com.

That article includes posts from Twitter users:

You know things are bad when you ask the gas station attendent "when do you think you're going to get more gas?" and he just laughs at you. - Prede (@predederva) November 1, 2012

Just awful! RT @metrogypsy: Someone just pulled a knife at Greenpoint #gas station as line stretches with hours long wait #gettingrealFAST - Camila Xavier (@camilaxavier) November 1, 2012

Watching the breakdown of society at a gas station on Long Island. #sandysucks - Christina (@wooly_says) November 1, 2012

There are also tweets from some users who are intelligent preppers... like this one from JohnnyRH:

I live in Utah and the people here are big into "prepping"... I have relatives in NJ and just last week we were talking and they thought I was nuts to own guns, store fuel and water and have a generator. Most people are totally blind to what chaos will come with a really large power grid failure over half or all of the country. It will take little more than a week for all hell to break loose and riots will be the norm.

"We're going to DIE!"

Another report from ABC News reveals the desperation and panic now forming among residents in Staten Island.

"We're going to die! We're going to freeze! We got 90-year-old people!" Donna Solli told visiting officials. "You don't understand. You gotta get your trucks down here on the corner now. It's been three days!"

The situation is so bad that even the Red Cross is being blamed for not showing up with supplies:

"This is America, not a third world nation. We need food, we need clothing," Staten Island Borough President Jim Molinaro said today. “My advice to the people of Staten Island is: Don't donate to the American Red Cross. Put their money elsewhere." (ABC News)

NBC News reports:

Staten Island officials had some choice words Thursday to describe what they said was a feeble disaster-relief response to people left dying, homeless and hungry in the New York City borough hit particularly hard by Sandy. Staten Island's top elected official blasted the American Red Cross response as "an absolute disgrace" and went so far as to urge its residents not to donate to the largely volunteer agency.

No gas for a week, no power for two

This situation, by the way, is only going to get FAR WORSE before it gets better. CNBC reports gas shortages will continue for at least a week, possibly longer. That's seven more days even while desperation has already taken hold on day three!

And power? Con Edison says it will be another 10 days before power is restored to the majority of customers currently in the dark.

As long as the power is out, gas stations can't pump gas, and that means continued gas shortages. That, in turn, means more desperation, starvation and even panic as residents can't use vehicles to acquire food and supplies. The American way of life, remember, is almost unimaginable without gasoline. Half the population seems physically incapable of walking anywhere these days, and almost nobody own bicycles anymore.

Things are going to get a lot worse over the next few days

What happens when millions of people packed into high-density cities can't get food, fuel or electricity?

People get desperate, of course. Desperation is about to set in. In the days ahead, you're going to see more fights and even weapons brought to bear in real-life survival scenarios. The federal government will predictably fail to reach people with the help they need, and people who neglected to prepare will find themselves in ever-more-desperate circumstances.

This is a time when nearly everybody suddenly realizes gee, it sure would have been smart to have been a prepper.

What's the value of having emergency food, fuel, a water filter, batteries and a fully loaded Remington shotgun in the hours after a superstorm? Priceless.

Preparedness is the solution

What's the solution to all this frustration and panic? Preparedness.

If the people of Staten Island or NYC had been prepared for the storm that they knew was approaching, they wouldn't be in a state of desperation right now!

If they had stored some of their own food, fuel, water and emergency supplies, they wouldn't be panicked for the Red Cross to show up and save them.

If they had intelligently planned ahead and taken action based on the seven days of dire weather predictions that preceded the storm, they wouldn't need to beg for big government to bail them out!

The answer to disasters like Sandy is to be a prepper.

Preppers are the new prophets

In the wake of Sandy, preppers suddenly seem like geniuses. While being ridiculed by the rest of the population for as long as we can all remember, preppers are the ones still standing in the aftermath of the storm.

They're the ones you don't see on the news, begging for help and panicking over the situation, because the preppers are sitting in their homes, eating their stored food, drinking their filtered water, double-checking their shotgun loads and staying off the streets. Preppers are the ones NOT looting, NOT complaining about the Red Cross, and NOT diving in dumpsters to find food while waiting around for the government to show up and save them.

Preppers are the new prophets. And those who failed to prepare are the new homeless.

Police State: Growth Rate of Cops Exceeds Population Growth

(Infowars) The Bureau of Justice Statistics has released a report demonstrating the growth of police in the United States.

The survey was conducted with agencies that participated in the 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies and the results were released by the Justice Department this month.

Between 1992 and 2008 the numbers of police grew by 25 percent.

In 2008 there were 705,000 full-time sworn officers employed in the United States. The number was 564,000 in 1992.

This represents an annual growth rate of 1.6 percent, which exceeds the 1.2 percent population growth rate in the United States, according to the survey.

Law enforcement grew its ranks despite a significant decline in crime. According to FBI statistics, murder, rape and robbery went down in the United States in 2011 for a fifth consecutive year.

Compared with 2010, the new figures show violent crime down 3.8 percent overall and property crime was down 0.5 percent, CNN reported on October 29. Justice Department figures show the crime-rate fell to an all-time low in 2011.

Despite the decline in crime, police departments around the country are rapidly transforming into paramilitary organizations.

Forbes reported last year that the Department of Homeland Security granted local cops $3 billion that was spent on “necessary tools” like BearCats and armored personnel vehicles.

In 2011 17,000+ federal, state and local agencies accepted more than $2.6 billion in donated military equipment, much of it used in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The combat equipment and lavish funding from the federal government are intended for all-inclusive counter-narcotics and -terrorism enforcement activities, Forbes notes.

The massive presence of militarized police at the establishment’s presidential conventions this year and as a now routine fixture at globalist confabs reveals the real reason for the militarization and growth of the police despite falling crime rates – the United States is a police state and the enemy is not al-Qaeda, anarchists (many who are police and FBI agents provocateurs), or even violent drug gangs.

Americans opposed to a government long ago captured by transnational corporations and their bankster and one-world government globalist overlords are the enemy.