Staten Island nightmare

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

4. Sorry to disagree, but people need to take responsibility...

First, I feel for anyone's loss and pray for families who have lost loved ones.

But this story seems a tad tainted with over-reaction.

First, it makes a 32-year-old adult sound like a 12-year-old child from the mother's view.

Second, nearly half of Staten Island is in a ZONE A evacuation area - a far larger zone than Manhattan for example. Mandatory evacuation of all A zones was ordered Sunday morning. The "child" calls her mother at 6 pm on Monday evening. DUH, what happened to the previous 36 hours? Mother calls 911. Obvious busy. Mother then calls 122nd Precinct. DUH, the 122nd Precinct is smack-dab-in-the-middle of one of the largest mandatory evacuation A zones in the entire city of New York. Credit the NYPD for still even answering the phone there at 6 pm on Monday.

The final clue is the description that they "felt the house sway on its pilings..." If a house is up on pilings rather than on a basement or solid foundation, then there is a good clue it might be in a flood evacuation area.