Yuwipi Woman
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Where the fuck did that come from?
Nothing personal. Its just one of the many things that makes you you.
Hurricane Sandy - "Perfect Storm"
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Nothing personal. Its just one of the many things that makes you you.
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
What wasn't?
Corax
Luke 5:16
Good. I've never been able to get the hang of reed instruments.
The bit about posting out of his persona.
Yes it was.
Just that once, it wasn't.
Edited to add: Except, perhaps, in your head. Which says more about you than about me.
Miss Caphat
I want it that way
marathon has been cancelled
Probably just as well. It's only one year.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/02/aftermath-hurricane-sandy-haiti-disasterAftermath of hurricane Sandy leaves Haiti facing new disaster
While the world's attention has focused on the US, the suffering and consequences for the Caribbean nation are far greater
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- Jonathan Watts in Port-au-Prince
- The Guardian,Friday 2 November 2012 20.22 GMT
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Two women in the flooded streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Up to 54 people have died, 20 are still missing, and thousands have lost temporary shelters set up after the 2010 earthquake. Photograph: Jean Jacques Augustin/EFE/Photoshot
When hurricane Sandy struck, Fifi Bouille was giving birth in a refugee camp. There were no medics around, only her sisters. Throughout the three-hour labour, rain beat down on the tent and fierce winds tugged at the canvas.
Not long after the umbilical cord was cut, the gusts were so great that the sisters feared the covering would be ripped from above them, so the first-time mother had to carry her newborn son through muddy paths in the middle of the the storm to find new shelter "I was terrified my baby might die," says Bouille, who is now sharing a tent with six others. The danger of the storm has passed, but she is now faced by a new concern: how to feed her child and herself.
The hurricane did not just take their tent, but their cooking utensils, bedding and meagre supplies of food. On Wednesday, she had one meal of corn. On Thursday, nothing.
"I need food, but I don't have enough money to buy it," she says. "Tell people we need nappies, cooking utensils, protein."
Bouille is not alone in fearing that Sandy's aftermath may be more terrible than the storm itself for Haiti. Although the world's attention has mostly focused on the hurricane's impact on the United States, the short-term suffering and long-term consequences for this Caribbean nation – the poorest country in the western hemisphere – are far greater because so many people already live permanently on the edge of catastrophe.
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Miss Caphat
I want it that way
Sorry I forgot to respond to this earlier. everything seems ok. I'm sure there was some individual damage to property, some more erosion, etc., but that's something we deal with during any big storm. power is back on and all is running normally.
...although, we are supposed to get some big snow storm starting on election day now
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...-england-election-snow-weather_n_2065075.html
FWIW a lot of the runners have now volunteered for emergency work.
Just tuned into the BBC. They're leading on the story that 20% of the subway in NYC is still down. Heart-breaking.
Even Channel 4, despite having Jon Snow in a helicopter looking at a half-collapsed crane and some puddles moved Sandy to 30 mins into their bulletin. Mental
Even Channel 4, despite having Jon Snow in a helicopter looking at a half-collapsed crane and some puddles moved Sandy to 30 mins into their bulletin. Mental
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
Shame. Could have raised $25 million for charities this year.
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Requisite tweet about@nymag's amazing cover. You've probably seen it already pic.twitter.com/4NsWA8kP
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On a scale of 1-10, how photoshopped do you reckon that pic is? 
editor
hiraethified
O. It's real. http://mashable.com/2012/11/03/heres-new-york-magazines-stunning-sandy-cover/On a scale of 1-10, how photoshopped do you reckon that pic is?
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
(I didn't even see what was different with it til a 3rd look)...Hello 4:30am x
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Occupy Leads Relief Efforts In Powerless Red Hook
Lining up for food at the Red Hook Initiative Center.
As the lights come back on in lower Manhattan, the power imbalance in parts of the city worst hit by Sandy is more literal than ever. Brownstone Brooklyn neighborhoods like Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens were able to celebrate Halloween as usual, but just blocks away, many residents of the Red Hook Houses, the city’s second-largest housing project, are without electricity, heat, or running water, and growing increasingly desperate. Red Hook, like other areas with overheard power lines, could wait another ten days or longer for juice, according to Con Edison. So far, Red Hook has received little help from the city or FEMA, and a team of Occupy protestors have been heading relief efforts.
“I can’t take this no more,” said Alisa Pizarro on Friday, wiping tears from her eyes. The lead community organizer at Red Hook Initiative Center on Hicks Street, which has become a hub for relief efforts, she is also a resident. “It’s too much. We have no light. We have no water. We have nothing. I’ve been washing with a little bottle of water. You hear stories about people looting other people’s apartments. I have pepper spray in one hand and a flashlight in the other. I don’t want to go through another night.”
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/11/occupy-leads-relief-in-powerless-red-hook.html
petee
no gods, no malarkey
some of them are schoolteachers. (it's right that it wasn't held.)
that occupy stuff is getting exactly zero exposure on broadcast outlets, afaik.
i find it curious that almost immediately after bloomberg endorsed obama, the post, murdoch's nyc newspaper, a filthy rightwing rag and usually bloomberg's lapdog, bashed him about the marathon.
on a personal note, LI is 7 days now without electricity.
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Hurricane Sandy: beware of America's disaster capitalists
The aftermath of the storm offers a chance to rebuild a fairer society. How can we seize it?
- Naomi Klein
- The Guardian,Tuesday 6 November 2012 18.22 GMT
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Destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy in Breezy Point, New York. Photograph: Julie Hau/Demotix/Corbis
Less than three days after Sandy made landfall on the east coast of the United States, Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute blamed New Yorkers' resistance to Big Box stores for the misery they were about to endure. Writing on Forbes.com, he explained that the city's refusal to embrace Walmart will likely make the recovery much harder: "Mom-and-pop stores simply can't do what big stores can in these circumstances," he wrote. He also warned that if the pace of reconstruction turned out to be sluggish (as it so often is) then "pro-union rules such as the Davis-Bacon Act" would be to blame, a reference to the statute that requires workers on public works projects to be paid not the minimum wage, but the prevailing wage in the region.
The same day, Frank Rapoport, a lawyer representing several billion-dollar construction and real estate contractors, jumped in to suggest that many of those public works projects shouldn't be public at all. Instead, cash-strapped governments should turn to public private partnerships, known as "P3s" in the US. That means roads, bridges and tunnels being rebuilt by private companies, which, for instance, could install tolls and keep the profits. These deals aren't legal in New York or New Jersey, but Rapoport believes that can change. "There were some bridges that were washed out in New Jersey that need structural replacement, and it's going to be very expensive," he told the Nation. "And so the government may well not have the money to build it the right way. And that's when you turn to a P3."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/06/hurricane-sandy-americas-disaster-capitalists
What could possibly go wrong?
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Miss Caphat
I want it that way
where's Phil? he's been conspicuously absent from this thread for a while
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