Sandy victims left out in the cold during arctic blast

The brutal cold snap affecting much of the country is taking a devastating toll on victims of superstorm Sandy, many of whom are camped out in tent cities or living in homes without power, heat or running water.

Hundreds of people in New York’s Staten Island and along the Jersey Shore are still without basic necessities nearly three months after the devastating storm struck.

“Many families in Union Beach are using space heaters to warm upstairs,” said Jeanette Van Houten, a resident from the small New Jersey town that was among the hardest-hit communities. “There’s people with no heat, no electric, but they are staying in the house because it’s better than having to deal with FEMA and having to leave hotels every two weeks.

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3rd Infantry remains on guard during hurricane Sandy

Third U.S. Infantry (The Old Guard) Photo – Facebook Page

WASHINGTON—While everyone else hunkered down in Washington D.C., personnel of “The Old Guard,” 3rd United States Infantry remained on guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during the storm.

There were no photos taken during the storm, but the photo shown here was taken recently and posted on the Facebook Page of the 3rd Infantry.

From their Facebook Page:

The Sentinels at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier maintain their vigil even as Hurricane Sandy bears down on the Eastern Seaboard. The Old Guard has guarded the tomb every minute of every day since April 6, 1948. Today will be no exception.

A photo circulating via e-mail with three men guarding the tomb is apparently from a storm in September of this year.

With or without picture, the display of honor of the men of the 3rd is yet another inspiration to come out of the storm.

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Bloomberg refuses National Guard assistance to Sandy victims in Brooklyn because of guns.

NEW YORK—A report on Newsbusters indicates that Mayor Michael Rubens Bloomberg of New York refused to allow National Guard units into Brooklyn—despite the pleas of Borough President Markowitz. The reason for denying the aid to Sandy victims was because the National Guard carries guns.

Apparently Bloomberg refused the request an hour before his press conference claiming his brave NYPD and FDNY were “overwhelmed.” Bloomberg refused, alleges the story, because it would turn the Borough into a “police state.”

“We don’t need it,” Mayor Bloomberg said on Wednesday during a press update on the city’s ongoing Hurricane Sandy cleanup. “The NYPD is the only people we want on the street with guns.”—the article reports.

Markowitz hoped that the presence of soldiers would stop a rash of looting and break-ins that occurred in the aftermath of Sandy.

14 rescued from movie ship HMS Bounty; 2 missing

12:03PM EDT October 29. 2012 – U.S. Coast Guard helicopters battling Hurricane Sandy rescued 14 of 16 crewmembers who abandoned the movie ship HMS Bounty before it sank off North Carolina early Monday, but officials said two people were still missing at sea.

The 180-foot, three-masted ship was built for the 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty and was also featured in a Pirates of the Caribbean movie, according to the The HMS Bounty Organization website, the Associated Press reported.

The Coast Guard said Monday that all 16 members of the HMS Bounty crew had made it onto life rafts before the three-masted ship sank, but only 14 people were hoisted to safety by the two Jayhawk helicopters dispatched from North Carolina.

It was not immediately clear why the two missing crewmembers were not among those rescued 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C.

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