Really Staten Island?????

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136. The same way I'm advocating for State Island?

Please show where I said they deserved to be given "the bureaucratic heave-ho." You'll have a hard time doing that because I never said that. As a former Red Cross volunteer on a disaster action team, and a resident of an area that is regularly hit by bad storms and tornadoes, I've seen enough of this stuff first hand to at least have some idea of what those folks are going through, and my heart does indeed go out to them, and in no way shape or form have I ever advocated that they should somehow be de-prioritized to receive aid.

But that does NOT change the fact that for a great many people in that area there was an opportunity to make some basic preparations, and they chose not to, thus making the situation they find themselves in even worse. I'm not saying this because I think they don't deserve help, I'm saying it so OTHER PEOPLE THAT MAY FACE THE SAME SITUATION MAKE BETTER CHOICES! We were told countess times by some members leading up to this storm that "OH, NY is totally different from the rest of the nation. Food and water won't be an issue at all, so no need to prepare!"

Sweeping these bad choices under the rug will only serve to make future situations down the road that much worse. Do yourself and your family a favor and take the bare minimum of personal responsibility for their safety in the case of an emergency and keep a few emergency supplies on hand.