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.
Okay my blogger world peeps here's my week in review, actually my last weeks week in review-first of all I'm going to start this week in review starting on each & every Sunday starting on Nov 25th. So here we go: Monday-I went to Fairfield, NJ for testing but I made a mistake & forgot to ask the lady in the front desk about the lip/check tint! :-O :-/ Tuesday-The next day I call the place & tell the lady that I want to make an appointment for the lip & check tint. And they said "Ok Then!" but I've to make an appointment an little early in the morning for that anyway. Wednesday-I didn't do anything because I was sick I stared to get hay fever & got some rest. Thursday-Didn't do nothing that's all!
Friday-NOTHING ok? just listen to some music that's all jamming to some R&B of course! Then I watch this Whitney Houston's We will Always love You: Grammy Special at 10-11pm. It was so good I think all of the performers did a wonderful job during Whitney songs in her career. Saturday-I've some White Castle burgers until I started to feel that my tummy hurts yuck! But I was feeling better the next day. Sunday-Me & my family went to TGI Fridays & I've some Jack Daniels Burger & it taste to sweet & tangy yum! & after that me & my family we went to Wal-Mart to buy some outfits for everyday thing/living. And of course me & my family went to Mc Donald's for some ice cream. But I still have that in the freezer.
Hey there my blogger world friends. Did ya'll wacth Dancing with the Stars last night? because you know they did a little tribute to the late king of pop Michael Jackson form his "Bad25" album which is in stores & online/Itunes right now. So if you miss it like me because I only wacth the half of it. you can wacth it right here on my blog:
Well the bad news is that I can't really show you the videos right about now but I can show you the links ok?
http://youtu.be/VPqfmBQ3yr0 Part 1 of 1
http://youtu.be/o5hnFsLI_Gk Part 2 of 2
You know what I like about the last night's turbite eposide of DWTS that that all of then did a great job performing some of the Michael Jackson hit's form the grestest album of all time "Bad" & some of the new never been before re-relessed footage of his songs. I like it I really enjoy it so much & MJ would be very proud of himself.
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
