Four Winds 10 - fourwinds10.com >> Environment >> Disaster Relief http://www.fourwinds10.net 2013-05-22T05:50:14+01:00 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net $700mn aid after Hurricane Katrina did not go to poor: American activist http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1365440375 April 7, 2013 An American activist tells Press TV that the $700 million aid in the wake of the 2005 Hurricane Katrina ‘didn’t go to poor people.’ According to a recent report by the inspector general of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, over 24,000 homeowners who received as much as 30,000 dollars to repair their homes either misspent the money or failed to provide documents to show completed work. The $700 million was granted for Louisiana homeowners to elevate and protect homes from future storms. “Where would 700 million dollars go? We know where it didn’t go and that is it didn’t go to poor people. It didn’t go to working people. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net THINK BEFORE YOU DONATE http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1361546814 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net Boston: First snowmen built as governor puts 5,000 National Guard troops on standby http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1360428366 Feb. 8, 2013 Boston: First snowmen built as governor puts 5,000 National Guard troops on standby --1,000 National Guard troops called up by Mass. Governor --Mass. under state of emergency --Fines, jail time for violating travel ban, implemented first time since 1978 (Wires) Posted by Lori Price, www.legitgov. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net 94 Days After Sandy 1900 Homes are Still Without Heat, Power and Water http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1359820917 Feb. 1, 2013 There are still more than 1900 homes in New York and New Jersey that are without utilities of any kind in the prolonged wake of Superstorm Sandy. Some families are getting assistance from FEMA and going to hotels, which they must leave every two weeks, go and apply for more vouchers and then check back in to the hotel. Others are sleeping in tents. Still others have remained in storm damaged homes without electricity, water or heat. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net A FRIEND OF FOURWINDS NEEDS OUR HELP! http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1358617112 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net Community Leads its Own Relief Efforts in the Rockaways http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1357752545 Jan.  8, 2013 Months before Sandy devastated the Rockaways, tragedy had already struck Rockaway resident Sharon Plummer. While bicycling home from the corner store, Plummer's 18-year-old son Shawn was caught in crossfire on Beach 29 Street and Seagirt Avenue. He died before reaching the hospital.  "The community was there for me," Plummer recalled in a phone interview with Truthout. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net Can you refute the following? A welfare/socialist nation in the making! http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1357219652 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net Just days after Hurricane Sandy, NYCHA tenants with no heat, hot water or power get eviction notices http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1356546705 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net Charitable Foundations: The Tax-Exempt Fraud for the Privileged You Aren't Told About http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1354676566 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net The American Red Double Cross http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1353776863 Nov. 18, 2 012 VIEW HERE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebBDEkgWN7U&feature=youtu.be text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net Staten Island After Sandy http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1353379588 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net HORRORS OF FEMA DISASTER RELIEF http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1353347420 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net FEMA shelters in northeast resemble police state prison camps http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1353175619 Nov. 17, 2012 Doom, gloom and despair is growing in the Northeast in the weeks following Superstorm Sandy, as winter sets in with thousands of New Yorkers and New Jersey residents still reeling from the loss of their homes and property. For many, the despair has grown into an intense anger, as tent cities set up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency begin to resemble prison camps. Moreover, the aftermath of Sandy is a story the mainstream media is largely ignoring, unlike Hurricane Katrina. (http://www. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net RESISTING HELL'S MAELSTROM: SYRIAN VOLUNTEERS EXHIBIT THEIR HUMANITY http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1352991698 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net The truth about the Red Cross http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1352987553 Nov. 14, 2012 The right-wing, scandal-ridden "charity" that isn't really a charity FOR MANY people, the American Red Cross is the very embodiment of lifesaving. Its bold red emblem is imprinted on the sides of vehicles that appear at natural disasters, storms or fires, to take care of the survivors. Millions of Americans donate blood or hard-earned pay to the organization each year, or during special appeals like after the Gulf Coast hurricanes. But as JOE ALLEN reveals, the real story of the Red Cross isn't nearly as noble and humanitarian as the image. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net 'SANDY': OBAMA'S 'GOOD STORM' http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1352909520 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net I am still an Unperson Here in Long Island New York http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1352824079 Nov. 11, 2012 I am happy as a clam, but I see many people suffering and there is absolutely no empathy on the part of people who are "entertained" by the internet and a functional society http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syONjmx2Lok&feature=youtu.be text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net Sandy Refugees Complain of Prison-like Conditions at FEMA Tent Camp http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1352570219 Nov. 9, 2012 Residents of New Jersey, whose homes were ravaged by superstorm Sandy and are now having to endure yet another wintery storm, are revealing through first-hand accounts that at least one tent camp FEMA is providing more strongly resembles a prison. Photo taken by Brian Sotelo of the tent city set up at Monmouth Park in Oceanport by FEMA for victims of Sandy. According to the Asbury Park Press [1], some displaced New Jersey residents have had to relocate to FEMA tent camps in the northeastern part of the state in efforts to secure better shelter, running hot water and washing machines, but members of at least one camp are saying that none of what was promised is available. “At (Pine Belt) the Red Cross made an announcement that they were sending us to permanent structures up here that had just been redone, that had washing machines and hot showers and steady electric, and they sent us to tent city. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net Officials Want Military to Take Over Power Restoration on Long Island http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1352568596 Nov. 10k, 2012 NBC 4 New York The storm has passed, the damage done and now the longest most difficult phase begins. For some people, the future is clouded by more than uncertainty: there is no heat, power or end in sight for thousands of utility customers. Pei-Sze Cheng is in Westbury on Long Island where homes are still in the dark. Two congressmen from Long Island are asking the White House to send federal employees to Long Island to take the lead role in restoring power to a region where tens of thousands of people remain in the dark 12 days after Superstorm Sandy. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net No Social Protection for India’s Elderly http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1352567072 Aged women sitting in front of an old age home in Kanyakumari district in Tamil Nadu. Credit: K. S. Harikrishnan/IPS NEW/DELHI/THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Nov 9 2012 (IPS) - At midnight on Oct. 12, 91-year-old George Puthenveettil, a widower living in Kalanjur village in the Pathanamthita district of the southern Indian state of Kerala, was brutally tortured and ousted from his own house by his only son for “not earning any money”. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net RESIDENTS DISPLACED BY SANDY ARE STARING AT LIFE IN STATEN ISLAND 'JAIL' http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1352564326 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net SANDY http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1352564180 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net BLOOMBERG BANS FOOD DONATIONS TO HOMELESS SHELTERS http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1352558084 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net BREAKING- KATRINA 2. NO FOOD NO WATER--FEMA EFFICIENTLY GOING AROUND CONDEMING HOMES http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1352345068 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net MOMS Feeds Sandy Victims, FEMA Response Remains 'Abysmal' http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1352172763 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net U.S. military, National Guard doing good things in wake of Sandy http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1352171426 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net LINE ITEM FACTS ABOUT HURRICANE SANDY THAT WILL SHOCK YOU http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1352141269 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net UPDATE from New York's 'Superstorm' Sandy epicenter http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1352136578 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net STATEN ISLAND RESIDENTS SAY HURRICANE SANDY RELIEF EFFORT 'FORGOT' VICTIMS IN THEIR BOROUGH http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1352136370 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net MARTIAL LAW OFFICIALLY DECLARED IN PARTS OF NW JERSEY AS HURRICANE SANDY BRINGS MASSIVE DAMAGE, FLOODING http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1352136268 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net HARDSHIP STRAINS EMTOTIONS IN NEW YORK http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1352135746 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net INTEL NYC UPDATE http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1352135545 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net RED KETTLES AND BELL RINGERS http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1352135260 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net SOMETHING GOING DOWN IN NYC & DC? http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1352134490 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net New York Magazine's Breathtaking Cover Shows A Blacked-Out Manhattan From The Sky http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1352134317 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net SHOCK: 72 HOUS AFTER GRID-DOWN: STARVATION, SUPPLY SHORTAGES, FOOD LINES, NO CLEAN WATER, NO GAS, TRANSPORTATION STANDSTILL "INDEPENDENT REPORTS, PICS, VIDEO* http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1351958292 Noc. 1, 2012 A recent study noted that the majority of people have enough food in their pantries to feed their household for about three days and that seemingly stable societies are really just nine meals from anarchy [1]. With most of us dependent on just-in-time transportation systems [2] to always be available, few ever consider  the worst case scenario. For tens of thousands of east coast residents that worst case scenario is now playing out in real-time. No longer are images of starving people waiting for government handouts restricted to just the third-world. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net Without Electricity, New Yorkers on Food Stamps Can’t Pay for Food http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1351956648 Nov. 1, 2012 It’s been more than three days since power went out in many parts of New York City, including the Lower East Side where multi-story public housing complexes like the La Guardia Houses don’t have electricity, heat or water. Many of the residents are also without food. Many of the low-income residents receive cash and supplemental nutritional assistance from the state electronically through what the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance calls Electronic Benefit Cards (EBT.) Recipients buying eligible foods are suppose to swipe their EBT cards like any other credit card for their purchases but since Hurricane Sandy hit, most Lower East Side stores don’t have electricity to run credit card transactions and are only accepting cash. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net FEEDING 8,000 NEW FRIENDS IN LOWER MANHATTAN http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1351956203 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net 4 million try to adjust to life without electricity without food without fuel and for many without a home now at least 95 dead http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1351954836 FW:  Nov. 3, 2012 A customer browses food piled into shopping carts on Brighton Beach Avenue, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. People in the coastal corridor battered by superstorm Sandy took the first cautious steps Wednesday to reclaim routines upended by the disaster, even as rescuers combed neighborhoods strewn with debris and scarred by floods and fire. (AP Photo/ John Minchillo). text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net Gasoline Runs Short, Adding Woes to Storm Recovery http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1351879592 Nov. 2, 2012 UNION, N.J. — Widespread gas shortages stirred fears among residents and disrupted some rescue and emergency services on Thursday as the New York region struggled to return to a semblance of normalcy after being ravaged by Hurricane Sandy. Tiny increments of progress — some subway and bus lines were back in service — were overshadowed by new estimates of the storm’s financial cost, struggles to restore power, and by the discovery of more bodies in flooded communities. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net Troopers deployed around NJ and NYC as gas shortages, power losses raise anger levels http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1351879062 Nov. 2, 2012 (NaturalNews) Just days after Hurricane Sandy blew through the Northeast, leaving huge swaths of New York City powerless and flooded, anger is rising among residents as shortages in food, gasoline and basic supplies begin to take their toll. In what is becoming a case study for why disaster preparedness is so vital, state troopers are being deployed in greater numbers at gas stations along the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway, where stocks of gasoline are beginning to run low, causing frayed nerves and high angst on the third full day of massive power outages that industry analysts don't expect will be fixed too soon. Fox News and other outlets are reporting that frustration with dwindling supplies of gasoline and other necessities of life is beginning to boil over in the tri-state region of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, the states hardest hit by superstorm Sandy-caused power outages. "Residents jockeyed for fuel at the few stations still pumping, searched store shelves in vain for batteries, struggled with sporadic cell phone service and found themselves unable to buy necessities at supermarkets," Fox News reported. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net ANARCHY ALONG THE JERSEY SHORE AND ON LONG ISLAND IN THE AFTERMATH OF HURRICANE SANDY http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1351872828 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net Waves of anger: Japan tsunami victim aid spent on whalers, officials and fighter pilots http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1351791451 Nov. 1, 2012 A quarter of Japan’s tsunami relief fund has been spent on unrelated projects, including renovating a government office and subsiding whaling. The revelations have ignited outcry as more than 320,000 tsunami victims remain displaced. The expenditure was identified after the publication of an independent government-backed audit into the allocation of the $150 billion relief fund, created after the earthquake and tsunami of March last year. The fund intended not only to restore damaged cities, but to “reinvigorate Japan”, stimulating local economies into recover. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net HELP NEEDED! http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1349187609 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net Shocking images from Isaac relief effort http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1347035078 Sept. 5, 2012 I just caught up with Gary LeBlanc of Mercy Chefs. As many of you know, Gary and his team is on the ground and feeding those left devasted by the destructive path of Isaac. Yesterday, Gary relocated two of his Mercy Chefs units to one of the hardest hit regions -- La Place. This area has been particularly ravaged by Isaac. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net FEEDING 800 ISAAC VICTIMS DINNER TONIGHT http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1346639689 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net Hurricane Isaac Exploited to Acclimate Citizens to Federal Military Role in Natural Disasters http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1346438010 Aug. 29, 2012 Despite the fact Isaac is a category one hurricane and New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said the city had “dodged a bullet,” the Army National Guard has dispatched thousands of troops in Louisiana. Gov. Bobby Jindal’s office said Tuesday it has asked the Defense Department to pay for up to 8,000 troops for 180 days. Moreover, the National Guard Bureau indicated another 35,000 troops and almost 100 aircraft are available for mobilization to Gulf Coast states, according to Paul Purpura of The Times-Picayune. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net Field Report from Isaac strike zone http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1346435859 Aug. 31, 2012 This morning I connected with Gary LeBlanc who heads up Mercy Chefs. Gary tells me the situation on the ground in Louisiana is far worse than he even expected. It's so bad that even the relief efforts are facing incredible obstacles. Days of rain, widespread flooding, and road closures have made this one of the most difficult relief deployments Mercy Chefs has encountered. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net PREPARING FOR ISAAC http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1346168393 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net THIS IS WHAT 670 MILLION PEOPLE WITHOUT POWER LOOK LIKE: PICTURES FROM A BLACKED OUT INDIA http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/disaster_relief/news.php?q=1343845266 July 31, 2012 First thing today we reported that India just suffered what may have been the biggest blackout in history, after half of the country's population of 1.2 billion, or just under 700 million was without power, as the electric grid of more than a dozen states suffered an epic collapse. Below we shares some pictures courtesy of Times of India giving some sense of what it means for two Americas worth of people to live without electricity indefinitely. Of note: the calm, peace and order despite the epic traffic jams and crowds. One wonders what would happen in the US if the entire country was without electrcity for even just one hour.