Update: noon Friday
The morning 7 a.m. meeting was canceled. At a Nyack Village meeting Friday morning, Village Trustee Mary Lorenzini said that she was told the National Guard will be coming in Friday night
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One thousand members of the National Guard will be in Rockland Friday for at least two meetings.
The National Guard will have 1,000 members meeting with Orange & Rockland Utilities Friday in groups of 500, one group meeting at 7 a.m. and the other at 7 p.m. O&R will brief the troops on the situation locally. Both meetings will take place at the Crowne Plaza in Suffern, where O&R has 100 rooms booked for workers, according to Robert Wilson, the hotel’s general manager.
Wilson said it might get a little crowded Friday morning, as 7 a.m. is also usually when all the O&R workers at the hotel head out for the day. He said he hasn’t heard how the National Guard units are arriving, where they will be working or what they’ll be doing.
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have no issues with having a telethon for the victims, many of the local, of the storm earlier this week. The timing and the placement on television of the event is very suspect. The telethons after 9/11 and Katrina took place a full week and a half after each event, not four days. The other telethons were on all networks, practically making every channel a telethon channel. THis event is only on the NBC family of networks and is four days after the storm. The other networks are not a part of this and NBC is going to take all the glory for doing this. Of course, if we waited until next Friday, it would be AFTER the election. Coincidence. I report, you decide.
My supervisor St. Lawrence just assured us that the Feds are "Engaged"
Another reason fuel has been in short supply is that the Port of New York/New Jersey, through which the tankers bring the oil in, was damaged by the storm and was closed for several days. However, I heard on Friday that the port has re-opened and the tankers are unloading again. That is not an unusual circumstance after a severe storm such as this. I was on a merchant ship once during a hurricane that hit Galveston and Houston, in Texas, and those ports were completely closed to shipping for three days after the storm.
Obama was in touch with Governors Christie and Cuomo immediately, and put relief organizations into action at once. Obama personally visited stricken areas of New Jersey with Governor Christie who, despite tha fact that he is a bitter bitter political opponent of the President, praised Obama's efforts to help the people of his state. Bush, on the other hand, made one flight over New Orleans in a helicopter, clicked his tongue at the damage, and then simply flew back to Washington.