FYI, Staten Island routinely votes conservative which is probably why they getting the shaft. Only the North Shore is Democrat and it escaped most of the damage. This county has the only 2 GOP reps on City Council. I doubt that these Sandy victims even were able to vote.

They have voted democrat for years and reelecting the same incompetent politicians. They deserve every bad thing they are getting. They asked for it.

just where is that "comedian" K.West...the one who claimed that Bush was the reason no one received help in N.Orleans after Katrina...seems to be very very quite these days.....

Wrong.S.I. voted for McCain and if they had been able to vote would have voted for Romney. The Democrats on the North Shore pushed Obama with the usual voter fraud.

Every dem mayor has treated S.I. like dirt.

Their long ago effort to secede failed. Sadly.

You mean to say Chuck Schumer wasn´t there to give insincere hugs and make meaningless promises (again) ?
There must not have been any television cameras around.

Obama and Schumer were here took pictures and took FEMA with them as soon as they left. Most of these victims are white and middle class so they don´t deserve help, right?

James Molinaro is a member of the NY State Conservative Party. A founding member IIRC. He won his 3rd term in 2009 with 62%+ of the vote. Staten Islanders by and large don´t vote Dem.

And yet somehow "Obama´s Sandy response" helped him win re-election?

Staten Island went for Uhhhbama this year.

soooooooooooooo how many of you staten islanders voted for THE BOY CHILD WHO THINKS HE IS KING...the same one who promised you the moon and the sun........i could say you get what you vote for but somehow i think YOU ALREADY KNOW THAT...lying is nothing to this guy...FOOLS BEWARE in the future....duh

Sounds like New Orleans to me.

How did a do-nothing outfit like FEMA get 700 people to show up? I think the only time FEMA got that much attention on the gulf coast after Katrina was when they were hiring.

I saw the debris at the first of the segment. Forget FEMA, why haven´t Staten Island residents cleared it?

This must be Bush´s fault.

It cain´t be the Messiah´s.
Cain it?
He perfect.

I have been through several hurricanes. I cleaned it up, hired repairmen, filed an insurance claim. What´s the problem here?

I feel sorry for SI residents, having to pay the city income tax on top of state and federal--for what?

A summary of community action in NYC:

Karl Rove and George Bush were hung in effigy.

A resolution of thanks to President Obama was approved unanimously.

Everyone agreed that evil forces were to blame and oil companies create hurricanes.

Staten Islanders should have purchased their own insurance and they should have had flood coverage. You should not rely on the government to feed you, clothe you and house you. Oh, and deal with reputable insurance companies, will you? You probably boght the cheapest stuff out there. Hey, what can happen, right?

Responsible governments assess the probability and consequences of natural disasters. The direct hit by a Class 1 hurricane had to have been on the list. Raising the ends of the subway tunnels must have been considered. An evacuation plan and possibly even sea walls must have been considered.

Think for a moment of the trillions spent on global warming which just might occur in 100 years. Class 1 hurricanes hit the US maybe 40 times a year. Maybe we should rethink our priorities.

OP is right on. You know, Megyn had on a NYC firefighter. On the one hand he told the sad story of his half million dollar house´s destruction but would not say a word against ANY public officials and their sorry response. DEMOCRAT first and above all. Makes you ill.

#2 and 11, not many people in Staten Island would vote for Obama.

As #1 states, folks in Staten Island routinely vote for Republicans and Conservatives. IMHO, that´s why they´re not getting much help from FEMA.

#18 - We don´t get around 40 category 1 hurricanes per year. We´ve had a total of 116 in the 160 years (1851 - 2010).

The lesson we learned from the Nashville floods of 2010, was to stay as far away from the Feds as possible, and get to work ourselves, and accept the aid of NGO charities when possible.

Take the money they give you ,leave the pile of rubble and get out of there for good.I escaped from NY 16 yrs ago and it was the best thing I ever did in my life.

Not sure where #2 and #11 got their information, but it seems to conflict with others who are local and know how Staten Island (at least the part that suffered so badly) voted.

As for those who are blaming the SI homeowners for what they are now going through. it is rude and unkind when you have no idea of their circumstances. Kneejerkism at its worst.

And here for the "flood insurance experts" is the rundown on that subject:

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/flood-insurance-cover-6593.html

OP and others, read #1, #4, #5, #8, and #20.

And Staten Island ia a world apart from what most here call "NYC".