Guard evacuates people, takes in food to NJ city

[KamaAina]

Source: Comcast News via AP

National Guard troops delivered food and supplies to residents in this heavily flooded city across from Manhattan on Wednesday as officials sent out a plea for boats, generators and volunteers.

Superstorm Sandy sent the raging Hudson River waters from one side of the one-square-mile city to the other Monday. Two days later, at least 25 percent of the community remained flooded, leaving many residents anxious about whether they could get out and municipal leaders struggling to get assistance to all those who needed it....

Tooke said the estimated 20,000 people still stranded in their homes were being encouraged to shelter in place, and that high-water vehicles would get supplies to them. He said people with medical and other special needs were being taken out by trucks....

This city of 50,000 with many narrow streets still retains its working-class grit, but also has come to be known as a great place for young professional families, including workers on Wall Street just across the river in Manhattan.

Read more: http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20121031/US.Superstorm.NJ.Hoboken/

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That means 40 percent of all Hoboken residents are stranded.

Thank goodness for the National Guard. The Guard belongs -- in Hoboken, not Fallujah.

edit: In case you're wondering, there was an evacuation order -- for ground-floor apartments only.

http://observer.com/2012/10/mandatory-hurricane-sandy-evacuations-include-zone-a-hoboken-stamford/

The City of Hoboken wants everyone out of “all ground floor apartments” by midnight Sunday night. They urge residents on upper floors to offer street-level neighbors lodging. Hoboken shelters will allow pets as well, as long as they are safely crated.

[pasto76]

1. "Thank goodness for the National Guard. The Guard belongs -- in Hoboken, not Fallujah"

I agree with the sentiment. But we are army soldiers nonetheless.

Thanks to democrats and President Obama for not wasting our valuable time as citizen soldiers by sending us to Iraq any longer. The primary reason I will vote for him, and will very likely vote straight Dem for life.