Hello there everybody my name is Telia S Battle. I'm 26 years old. I'll love to read books because I'm a bookworm for the day I was born. I also love to do my blog, (but I usely don't be on my blog that much ...because I'm busy doing other stuff) I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't get no tattoos, I don't get no body percings. I don't hang out to no nightclubs/parties/Go-Go Bars. Because I'm a clean person & I'm going to stay that way! But I just hang out to the special gatherings-going away parties/bbq's-picnic's. I'm a very quiet friendly person. I love to meet new people. I'm single & loving it right about now which means I'll not married I've to wait I'm not trying to rush into marriage! And I'll don't have no kids right about now because I've to wait as well even though I love kids, but not right now.
Hi there my blogger world peepz after a 4 week long hiatus, I'm back alright the reason way I haven't been on my blog that much is that:
1. The computer didn't work at that time so I went to the library to check on my updates on social media-On Thurs Feb 7 it came back on & I was so happy Yeahhhhhhh!
2. I went to PA for a 4 weekend vacation & it was so nice it was snowing on Saturday at that time because I stay in Quakertown, PA. Yes I went to Wal-Mart & eat out at Pizza Hut on Superbowl Sunday the only part that I love is when Beyonce did her thing & it was so cool.
3. The next week after the Superbowl I started to wacthed The Grammy's it was the best music night mean the ratings eversince 7 years ago already?
4. And last but not least Beyonce did her best on Orpah's Next Chapter & her Doc "Life is But A Dream" on HBO.
So that's all I can say on my updates on my blog I hope 'yall have a great week ahead.
Hey for all you blogger lovers out here listen then I check my blog this morning, I've over 1010 views on my blog. It's that excited? but anyway I hope that you enjoying your time off form your work/school or whatever? But next week I'm going to start counting down my top 20 favorite moments of 2012!!! That's right starting on Dec 29th I'm going to countdown my fave songs/movies/and stories of 2012. So you better stick around for that! So in the meantime enjoy your long week-end vacation blogger fans.
Hello there my blogger world & I'm back form an awful "HURRICANE SANDY"alright here's the thing here I lost some of the power during the 2 days & the power went back on Wednesday afternoon at 04:50 pm. Now to me that I be seeing a lot of trees knock down our my way even my grandmothers way also. But I don't know about my other grandmother because she lived in the nursing home & they have generators. But on Tuesday it was so dar as I don't know what outside! it was half lights but still it was so dark I can't even belive it. My father told me that this week the power didn't come back on until next Mon.... but you know it did! lol... oh well?
A flooded section of Hylan Boulevard, one of the
main streets on the south shore of Staten Island, New York, on Nov. 2, 2012.
Staten Island has always been the forgotten borough of New York City. I’ve lived here
all my life, and after Hurricane Sandy, the island is feeling as neglected as
ever. You can’t escape the devastation here. My family came through relatively
unscathed — though they are mostly huddled in my brother’s house. But they, like
all other residents of the island, were witness to the terrifying power of the
storm.
The first floor of my mother’s house was destroyed and now reeks of mildew.
The tenant there is living upstairs on my mom’s floor, with no power or heat. In
the Great Kills area of the island is my Aunt Barbara’s house. And on the street
where she lives is now an entire marina of boats. Large luxury fishing boats
have crushed into houses and block intersections. Aunt Barbara and her family
are living on a generator but are running out of gas. On Halloween night, her
son Fred was almost arrested for siphoning gas from a huge boat on their street.
My brother and I drove to Woodbridge, N.J., and waited almost three
hours in line to buy gas for them.
(PHOTOS:In the Eye of the Storm: Capturing Sandy’s Wrath)
The headline of Thursday’s Staten Island Advance screamed in bold
“14 DEAD SO FAR — HOMES RAVAGED, LIVES RUINED.” But many people here feel no one
is listening to their pleas for help or coming for support. Only after one
horrific tale emerged did the rest of the city and country pay attention to
Staten Island. That event took place in one of the most devastated areas on the
island, along Father Capodanno Boulevard. There, a young mother named Glenda
Moore tried to reach a shelter and lost her two sons, Brandon, 2, and Connor, 4,
after their car stalled in the suddenly rising floodwaters and they tried to
escape.
Many residents live just off the water. And as you travel along south, the
evidence of destruction just grows and grows. Piles of furniture and garbage are
stacked in front of countless homes. Many residents in the town of South Beach
off Father Capodanno Boulevard can’t go back into their houses until they see a
yellow sticker from the Building Department on their door letting them know the
building is safe. Many are clearly unsafe — in fact, uninhabitable and stickered
in red to indicate they have been condemned. The area is pockmarked with
collapsed homes.
(VIDEO:After
Sandy, Returning to Ruins in Breezy Point)
Aly Mahgoub was in his South Beach house during the storm. “I ran to the
garage to grab some stuff, and in a matter of minutes the water was up to my
knees,” he recalls of the Oct. 29 surge. “I brought all the kids to the third
floor, and in about an hour and a half the water was past the first floor. I had
a Chevy Tahoe and it was smacking into the house and it went through the garage.
The waves were hitting my house. It felt like I was in the middle of the ocean.
It made it up to the second floor of my house.”
Late on Nov. 1, Lorenzo Ameno, a lawyer, was pumping the water out of his
basement — which meant he was lucky enough to have a generator to power the
pump. “We evacuated when we saw the water rising and thought it best just to
leave,” Ameno says. He returned to find a Mercury Mountaineer jammed between the
walls of his house and his neighbor’s home. A Dodge Ram had floated into the
side of his house. He said, “I’ve tried contacting FEMA, and there has been no
response. I don’t even think FEMA has showed up in South Beach. We’re all
neighbors and waiting and nobody has showed up. Only National Grid [the gas
company] to shut off the gas and Con Ed to shut the electric.”
“I have homeowner’s insurance, and I tried to call my agent today, and I just
can’t get through,” says the frustrated lawyer. “President Obama promised a
swift recovery, and we are on Father Capodanno and there is nothing here. There
are no services; there are no police, no Red Cross [in the neighborhood].
There’s nothing. It’s just devastating on top of devastating.” He adds, “I
really do believe that Staten Island is the forgotten borough … There should
really be newscasters here showing the devastation on Father Capodanno and
nobody helping us.”
“The mayor here doesn’t want to come and they are pulling bodies out left and
right,” says Michael Harven, who lives with Ida Vernat and their 11-year-old
daughter in an area called Ocean Breeze. They all escaped — along with their
small terrier — just when the floodwaters began to rise. “When we came out and
saw the water coming across the street, we left,” says Harven. “The water rose
to about 10 feet high in the area, so people were trapped.” He and Vernat found
out today that their house had a yellow sticker, which means that though it is
damaged, they can return to live in it. Still, says Vernat, “My daughter doesn’t
want to come back and see this. She’s scared.”
(VIDEO:TIME
Explains: Hurricane Sandy and Climate Change)
Only a few houses away from Vernat and Harven’s home, searchers found the
body of an elderly woman. Peeking through a shattered bay window of the home
where she was discovered, I saw a green oxygen tank. In the small living room,
all her furniture had been tossed about by the flood. Her neighbors say her cat
survived.
Near the corner of Father Capodanno and Midland Avenue is a gigantic
emergency command center. Harven says it isn’t very organized. When he went in
to ask about his home on Nov. 1, he says, “The Office of Emergency Management
didn’t know the Building Department was here. FEMA said they were too busy
getting set up. No one is communicating, even the city. Half this community
wants to leave. They don’t want to ever come back.”
Driving into the Midland Beach neighborhood right after sunset requires going
through an obstacle course of debris and random streets filled with stagnant
floodwater. At the Hess station on New Dorp Lane, there’s a line of cars about a
mile long. In the pitch black of Cedar Grove Avenue, Lucille Mack, who works at
Showplace bowling alley, is serving pizza on the hood of a car. “We want to help
give people something for their stomachs at least,” she explains. One resident
who was eating out on the street told me that he and his wife took refuge in the
attic of their one-story home, even as the entire facade of the house fell off
and the next-door neighbors’ home completely collapsed.
Across the street, a Red Cross mobile unit was handing out supplies and
volunteers were organizing things at an impromptu donation center in the dark.
One volunteer said, “Nothing from FEMA yet, no Con Edison trucks, we haven’t had
any inspections. The cops came by and made sure people were alive, but nothing
has been inspected that I know of.”
On my way home I notice another mile-long line for gas at another Hess
Station, close to where a giant water tanker washed up on land. I take a photo
of the line for gas. A cop keeping the line orderly says, “Come back in 20
minutes when they run out and you’ll really see a riot.” He may have been
joking, but Staten Islanders are struggling, and many are beginning to lose
patience. We are tired of being forgotten.
Hey there blogger world I want for you to take a look at this article form TIME.COM & I'm just worried about how they will suffering without all the food & the shelter? Plz comment & just send me a e-mail MINVAN2000@gmail.com
Hey there blogger world listen up I've just seen this on my local news station about making another those dramatic changes to Facebook but this time the STATUS, yep that's right the STATUS!!! but this time they're making the status update to make some of the money. You know what I think that's a nice ideal because that way you can give some of the extra money to your FB friends instead of seeing someone to comment under thier status. Well let's look & see it to find out: http://www.8newsnow.com/story/19728152/facebook-will-charge-to-promote-user-posts
Facebook Will Charge to 'Promote' User Posts
Posted:
Oct 03, 2012 4:38 PM EDTUpdated:
Oct 03, 2012 4:38 PM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook is rolling out a feature in the U.S. that lets users pay to promote their posts to friends, just as advertisers do. Facebook has been testing the service in New Zealand, whereMore>>
Facebook is rolling out a feature in the U.S. that lets users pay to promote their posts to friends, just as advertisers do.More>>
NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook is rolling out a feature in the U.S. that lets users pay to promote their posts to friends, just as advertisers do.
Facebook has been testing the service in New Zealand, where it tries out a lot of new features, and has gradually introduced it in more than 20 other countries.
Facebook said promoting a post will bump it higher in your friends' news feeds.
The company has long declared on its front page that it's "free and always will be." And it still is -- unless you want more friends to see what you have to say.
So you see even though that you can post some of your Status Updates, that doesn't mean you can promote your post. If you have any questions or comments, complaints leave some comments down the below or e-mail me at: minvan2000@gmail.com ok?
I hope you is enjoy your last few days of summer until school starts again (but for me I'm not in school) which means I'm 25 & older lol.... So anyway I'm so busy & keeping myself busy as well. On Sat I'm going to the picnic/BBQ with some of the friends, & then on Sun I'm off to Allentown, PA to go to Dorney Park! Yes because that's what my mother told me just yesterday! I'm sure that I will be posting more current events on today's stories & some more a little entertainment stuff as well. So stay tuned people alright everyone be safe in the topical Hurricane Issac in New Orleans, LA. Bye everyone! ;)
