Really Staten Island?????

[Dorian Gray]

233. Nope

I read every single post in this entire topic, including the many by you. I saw that you worked in the past for the Red Cross in the past. I don't disagree with you that preparation for a storm is prudent and important.

Having said that, the storm is past. People are truly suffering. Blaming people NOW for not evacuating or having a dry pack of food to last them a week is not what anybody in this city needs. What we need is to band together, pool our resources, and try to help each other out.

I have loads of friends on the Jersey Shore who are truly suffering. They lost homes and furniture and cars. Nobody lost lives, though. So they are lucky. Staten Island experienced the highest number of casualties in NYC for this storm. And you know what? Woulda/Shoulda/Coulda. That's not changing anything. So I just want to help the people who are suffering now. That's all that I think humanitarian people should want.

Next time a storm is brewing (Potential Noreaster coming up this week), we can start all sorts of threads about storm preparation. It's a prudent and caring thing to do. But after the storm hits? Why pile on people saying how stupid they were for their human decisions?

That's my very strong opinion. I HATE blaming victims. I refuse to do it.