It has been quite some time since my last blog and it's because of that b*tch Sandy! What a crazy couple of weeks it has been. I didn't suffer too much damage because of the storm, only losing power for about 10 days, but my sister and cousin did receive quite a blow. I'm sure most people have seen the devastation that hit Seaside and they were only a couple of miles from there. Their house was deemed condemned and they only had a couple of days to get all their stuff out. Most of the stuff that was on their bottom floor had been destroyed, but luckily their upstairs, which was where the bedrooms were, were okay.
I spent my birthday, as well as that weekend, helping my sister get her stuff together. We, along with a few of her friends, packed up her stuff pretty quickly and transported it back to my place, where it was stored for about a week. Her furniture was put into storage, and as of yesterday, everything in my place had been put into storage as well. Right now she has to try to find a place to live. She's been staying in a hotel for a couple of days, but its not a permanent solution.
I was annoyed by a lot of people during this whole fiasco. I realize how annoying it was to be without power for an extended period of time, but people in your own state, in your favorite vacations spots, literally lost their homes, their lives, and their livelihoods. Everyday someone else was complaining on Facebook about being without power. Like I said, I get it because I was in that position too, but for my sister, who lost her home and stayed with me in a powerless home, its time to get some perspective. For the most part, I didn't even really mind being without power. I did not miss watching TV, instead I read a few books. Being without heat kind of sucked, but I like sleeping in the cold. The first few days weren't even that cold and seeing as how I keep my thermostat at 65 anyway, it didn't make too much of a difference. Only when we had a snow storm did the coldness bother me.
There were a lot of people from all over the country coming to help out our state in a time of need and for people to be complaining all over Facebook and now people in Long Island holding F*ck you LIPA rallies...they are doing everything they can and have left their families and homes in order to help people out and all they can do is complain. Do they even realize the extent of damage that has happened across our area? Instead of sitting around complaining, how about going out and helping people who honestly need it. Being in Toms River and seeing all the houses with a big red check mark on it, meaning it was condemned, was a really haunting sight.
