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Fire Walk With Me

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Mon Dec 17, 2012, 07:52 PM Dec 2012

Hurricane Sandy victims in Far Rockaway call on city to fix the mold before it gets cold [View all]

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City: $500M, 2K workers; @OccupySandy: $500K, 70K volunteers. #DisasterInequality http://ow.ly/gb6BY


http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sandy-vics-kill-mold-cold-article-1.1221325

Cold and moldy.

Desperate victims of Hurricane Sandy said at an emotional protest march in Far Rockaway on Saturday that’s what their holiday season looks like.

About 100 residents gathered in the storm-ravaged neighborhood to call on Mayor Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to fix dangerous conditions caused by the mold, lack of heat and absence of electricity they are enduring.

They carried banners that read “Rebuild Rockaway” as they trudged through dusty streets still covered in sand and strewn with trash tossed there by October’s historic storm.

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