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Bring unused, winterized FEMA trailers to Gerritsen Beach
- Posted by Kelly Poore Mead
To: Governor Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg, FEMA Coordinator Mike Byrne
Please bring the 100 unused FEMA trailers that are sitting in Pennsylvania and ALL other available FEMA trailers to Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn and other nearby areas that have been affected by Sandy.
Our residents need temporary housing near their homes so that they can get their kids to and...
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The community of Gerritsen Beach and surrounding area is in desperate need of help. We have paid our fair share in tax dollars over the years. I would never think this would happen in the USA since our government sends in our great military to provide humanitarian aid in times of crisis - to sets up towns, create shelters, provide medical assistance, food and needed essentials to the victims of disaster. However, our Gerritsen Beach residents have been left in the dark, are cold and are now trying to cope with the realities of having to rebuild their entire home while living with mold.
Our community is at risk and the lives of our family, friends and neighbors are at stake unless there is a HUGE, TIMELY response put forth from our government and other American citizens.
Please Help Us Save These Hardworking Citizens of the United Sates of America!
We need your help NOW! We cannot wait any longer! These trailers can make a huge difference in the lives of so many - please help bring them to Gerritsen Beach and New York.
All the best,
Michael Taylor
Chairman of the Board
Gerritsen Beach Cares, Inc.
Please watch this link:
http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/173318/fema-has-more-than-100-unused--winterized-trailers-in-pennsylvania-lot
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Update #2
Posted by Kelly Poore Mead (Campaign Leader) on Dec 13, 2012Thank you all for being involved and caring about those who have been affected by Sandy. Please continue to give your support to our cause by forwarding this petition throughout your Facebook and Twitter communities! Please also visit GBCares.org or facebook.com/GBSandyRelief to see more stories about the devastation caused in Gerritsen Beach.
We also found out this weekend that FEMA is bringing trailers to New Jersey because their Representatives have pushed for them. We have not yet...
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Update #1
Posted by Kelly Poore Mead (Campaign Leader) on Dec 13, 2012Thank you all for being involved and caring about those who have been affected by Sandy. Please continue to give your support to our cause by forwarding this petition throughout your Facebook and Twitter communities! Please also visit GBCares.org or facebook.com/GBSandyRelief to see more stories about the devastation caused in Gerritsen Beach.
We also found out this weekend that FEMA is bringing trailers to New Jersey because their Representatives have pushed for them. We have not yet...
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Please help these families whose lives have been crushed under the weight of Sandy and give them a place to celebrate this Season if Hope and Renewal!
WE MUST HELP NEEDY HUMANS AT THE RIGHT TIME.AS WE ARE ALSO HUMAN.
Hey, Muhammad, I like it! There are Commandments in the three chapters of Exodus following ch.20 (which has 12, not Ten) that reminds the Hebrews "for ye were strangers".
For the victims of Sandy the nightmare has just begun. I live in FL was hit by three hurricanes in 2004. I have just this year replaced my roof that was new in 1999 with inherited funds. No one is loaning money, there are no low interest loans for the victims. Next came the DISASTER CAPATALISTS, the price of building materials soared, toxic trailers were purchased from Bush cronies and stored at great expense, never used! Devious Jeb and G. W. Bush gave FEMA funds to residents of Miami...
…For the victims of Sandy the nightmare has just begun. I live in FL was hit by three hurricanes in 2004. I have just this year replaced my roof that was new in 1999 with inherited funds. No one is loaning money, there are no low interest loans for the victims. Next came the DISASTER CAPATALISTS, the price of building materials soared, toxic trailers were purchased from Bush cronies and stored at great expense, never used! Devious Jeb and G. W. Bush gave FEMA funds to residents of Miami where there were no storms to buy the ‘election’ for Bush in 2004. There is much more to this vast scandal in the Palm Beach Post and the Sun Sentinel. FEMA has become ineffective since Bush put the agency under the unwieldy Department of Homeland Security.
The National Guard with their duty of assistance in natural disasters at home was deployed to Iraq. The military constructed cities with air-conditioned tents in Iraq. Bush built the biggest American Embassy in the world in Iraq while storm victims suffered at the expense of his war of choice.
Blue tarps only last a few months in the FL sun. Sandy victims in the NE live in a different climate with freezing weather they need help ASAP. FAIR WARNING many victims in FL and the victims of Katrina still have not recovered. I have extensive interior damage that still needs repair. I consider myself lucky to at least have a roof over my head living in a small part of my home. I am 70, retired with no clue how I will find the funds to finish repair of my home.
HELP SANDY VICTIMS.
Obama has been President for 4 years ... for crying out loud ... stop blaming Bush! Bloomberg isn't allowing the trailers, FEMA (under the OBAMA Administration) hasn't stepped up ... Cuomo isn't doing anything but standing on the sidelines as a cheerleader for his President. And you're still stuck on Bush??? Holy crap ... some people never get a clue!
Patrick Ferry , thank you ! I'm sick of the bull on blame everybody but the real culprit . Obama doesn't care ! Strange thing to ,is many people in NY and Jersey ,voted for him and many Floridians also . I'm a native , born and raised FL. maybe now they see what they really get with him !!!!
Where does all of our tax dollars go? Not to Americans that need help immediately. Yet we send billions to countries that hate us. Help these people called AMERICANS NOW............
While I agree with the main sentiment here, that the taxes we pay are misused. I reject the idea that the whole of any country hates us. Most of the people in a poor country do not even know us. We spend billions on weapons of war, and although we ban reprocessing that would reduce the lifetime of nuclear waste a thousandfold, we STILL retain nuclear weapons. We allow people who receive vastly more annual income than the President of the USA does, to pay far less than the difference between what their labor, if any, is worth, and what they actually receive.
Look what we have for leadership. What do you expect, Bloomberg and the other leader,both need removed
This is an excellent idea for using resources we already have. Please help.
These unused FEMA Homes on Wheels are needed very Badly on the East Coast ! Washington ... Come on, a little more Common sense and alot Less Bureaucratic Red Tape. We take care of many Nations, why does it seem we in the United States sometimes come Last ? It is Brutally Cold outside, plus the Clean up and Construction Crews need Shelter !!
This is my sisters neighborhood! Please help her and her neighbors!
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what are you saving them for help these people out what if it was your family who need help you would be right on top of it! So get up off your backside and do something your nice and warm and dry and have a place to celebrate your holidays and I bet most of these people voted for you I didn't because you never help out when really needed so prove me wrong! Gerritsen Beach HELP THEM OUT!
wonder what they are waiting for our government really sucks !!! If it was an over seas thing they would have benefits and all but when it comes to there own back yard they just sit and watch them STRUGGLE !!!
if they're out there..bring them!
If this happeed in a terroist country these fucking librail assholes would have had half the military over there with battle ships loaded with food and clothes and shelter!
Your where is the supplies for the people who need it here?
NO you are mistaken it was Bush that gave the Taliban $43 million dollars in May of 2001.
Please Help the residents of Gerritsen Beach have some place warm to spend the winter.
I didn't have to live in a trailer from FEMA after Hurricane Katrina but know many that did, please help the victims of Sandy. You would want the help if you lost your home, you'd get tired of living in a shelter. Or better yet go spend a fe days in a shelter then you'll appreciate a small unit just for your family!