Storm Recovery Tidbits
On the news tonight they showed what the marathoners are doing since their run was cancelled. Many of them spent the day volunteering on Staten Island, cleaning up properties.
Over one *million* people in New Jersey remain without power.
A network of shelters has rapidly been established throughout the affected areas. That's where a lot of the food purchased by donations to the Red Cross have gone.
Mutual Aid is getting closer to home. Even as utility crews from as far away as New Mexico were on the scene even before the storm, now even fire and police from nearby states not as hard hit have been dispatched to the hard hit areas to aid the local constabulary. State troopers, local cops and firefighters are heading into the New York/New Jersey area to assist as they are able.
It never fails. When disaster hits, we really do become one community.