Army unwatering experts sent to New York
Corps of Engineers The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Rock Island District is deploying a team of engineers today to New York to support the Corps’ unwatering assistance to the state. The Unwatering...
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Fuel shortage hits Hurricane Sandy survivors hard
Flickr photo by eschipul. Staten Island, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens. What do four of the five boroughs of New York City have in common? They are on islands. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the...
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Making Hurricane Sandy Secret
New Jersey National Guard soldiers assist displaced residents at the town of Hoboken Oct. 31. Four trucks and eight soldiers were dispatched to Hoboken at the request of the state Office of Emergency...
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Marines land in New York for Hurricane Sandy relief
Marines of 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit arrive in Staten Island, N.Y., Nov. 4. The Navy-Marine Corps team is well-equipped to respond to national disasters when required, through the coordination of...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy Fundraising Notes
This is the fourth time that we have documented private giving in the United States for a disaster. It appears that the fundraising for Hurricane Sandy relief will not, as of this writing, resemble...
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Marines – here to help
Marines of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit work with members of the New York Sanitation Department to clear out the tremendous piles of debris that have accumulated on Staten Island in the wake of...
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After Hurricane Sandy – Haiti on the Hudson
Marines of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) clear debris during diaster relief operations in a Queens, N.Y. neighborhood, Nov. 9, 2012. The 26th MEU is able to provide generators, fuel, clean...
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Hurricane Sandy relief news and resources
Here are some of the ways that all of us can help the people whose lives have been turned upside down by the destruction brought by Hurricane Sandy. There is also a link to a list of publicly announced...
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Aid for Breezy Point after Hurricane Sandy
Homeowner Erin Daly coordinates volunteer efforts and donations on her cellular phone at a “gut and pump” volunteer post she created with the assistance of New York City firemen. The volunteers have...
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Fort Hamilton still serves New York after Hurricane Sandy
U.S. Army Fort Hamilton on Nov. 14, 2012, Fort Hamilton, N.Y. After Hurricane Sandy devastated many areas along the Northeast coast of the country; military forces conducting civil support operations...
View ArticlePoliticians set up their own Hurricane Sandy relief groups
Funds for Hurricane Sandy relief and recovery continue to lag the Katrina effort. The money raised is going to several types of entities, and some questionable ones, at that. Is this disaster just...
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Where are the FEMA trailers?
After Hurricane Katrina left so many homeless, the Federal Emergency Management Agency provided trailer homes for many. Yet, 45 days after Hurricane Sandy struck the New York and New Jersey areas, the...
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Hurricane Sandy recovery videos
Even weeks after the hurricane the people of Breezy Point continue to clean up debris. Photo by Mike Dale, DMAT FL2, Strike team #1 Here are a number of recent videos showing some of the recovery from...
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NY National Guard shares hurricane lessons with Israeli Home Front Command
New York National Guard Brig. Gen. Ray Shields, director of the joint staff, and IDF Maj. Zerit Gershkovitch, director of public guidance for the Israeli Home Front Command, listen to NYS Commissioner...
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Progress on recovery efforts one year after Hurricane Sandy
Crews work to place sand and restore the beach at Coney Island Friday, Sept. 20, 2013. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is placing roughly 600,000 cubic yards of sand at Coney Island to replace sand...
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