Really Staten Island?????

[Dorian Gray]

221. The wake was

Saturday and Sunday. THe storm didn't hit until Monday. There was no danger. The funeral mass happened monday morning, before the storm hit. The burial happened two days later, bc it was deemed too dangerous to drive to the cemetery in the upcoming storm.

Why the heck am I explaining anything to you? Who cares. Circumstances happen. I am glad people feel like they can get on their high horse and blame victims of a storm. I was not a victim. Nothing happened to me. But it did happen to many other people. And I don't blame any of them for a freak of nature storm that hit the city/Jersey Shore/Tri-state area. I was extraordinarily lucky to live in the neighborhood in which I live. Others were not so lucky. And currently, there are hungry and cold people living in shelters in my safe neighborhood which is inland enough to have not been devestated by the storm because they don't have provisions. They are people who did evacuate from their dangerous neighborhoods and are still suffering.

But I suppose that they are to blame, as well.

Jesus Christ, I seriously think people like to blame victims of natural disasters so that they don't feel guilt when they don't open their pocketbooks or give their time or energy to helping out. It's really disturbing.