Secret Santa II gives $100 dollar bills to Sandy victims in store November 29, 2012. A Kansas City businessman known as Secret Santa II, who didn’t want his face shown on camera, is giving out 100 bills in storm-stricken Staten Island and in Elizabeth, NJ.
Secret Santa II exclaimed,
The money is not the point at all, It’s about the random acts of kindness. I’m just setting an example, and if 10 percent of the people who see me emulate what I’m doing, anybody can be a Secret Santa. And I hope I give all my money away before I die.”
His friend Larry Stewart, was the first Secret Santa. R.I.P.
Staten Island Sandy victims pack New York City Town Hall, November 29, 2012. More than 1,000 people went to New Dorp High School to ask FEMA and other agencies what to do about their damaged homes and neighborhoods.
People were turned away at door and could not fit into auditorium.
These people are frustrated, Lives were lost. My house — I can rebuild the house. My neighbor is dead.”
Tom Saglembeni of New Dorp Beach exclaimed,
What’s gonna happen to our neighborhood? Are they condemning our neighborhood?”
Scott and Deirdre McGrath injected,
I’m homeless. My home has no gas, water, sewage, but yet I’m still sleeping in there. I have dust and mold that he [Department of Health NYC] is telling me to avoid, where am I supposed to go? I’ve gone to FEMA, SBA, apartments.com, Robert Defalco Realty. I’ve gone to news, I still cannot find an apartment, where am I supposed to live? I feel just as lost as I did before I came here.”
Other people yelled,
I have a question!” “No one is doing what’s right for us!” “You’re a piece of crap!” “Don’t run around and pass the buck, from the FEMA guy to Department of Buildings guy. Help us, answer our questions.”
In Paulsboro, New Jersey, vinyl chloride exposed, a bridge collapses, four railroad freight trains derails into the Mantua Creek near the Delaware River around 7:00 a.m. Friday. Also Barack Obama lands in Philadelphia International Airport across the river from the spill.
Vinyl chloride is a Group A human carcinogen. It is also a is a colorless flammable gas a manufactured substance that evaporates very quickly and easily ignited.When breathing vinyl chloride at high levels for even short periods of time, people can experience ill effects including dizziness, sleepiness, and even unconsciousness. Exposure to extremely high levels can cause death. Breathing vinyl chloride for long periods of time can result in permanent liver damage, immune reactions, nerve damage, and liver cancer.
This is the same bridge that collapsed in August 2009 as a 50-car coal train passed over it, spilling 16 cars into the water.
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