{"id":1228,"date":"2012-11-18T20:41:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T20:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2012\/11\/18\/hurricane-sandy-relief-the-rockaways\/"},"modified":"2012-11-18T20:41:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T20:41:14","slug":"hurricane-sandy-relief-the-rockaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/hurricane-sandy-relief-the-rockaways\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Sandy Relief &#8211; The Rockaways"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">One week after hurricane Sandy many of our brothers and sisters remain in dire straights. \u00a0The have no power, water, or heat. To complicate things, temperatures are in the upper 20&#8217;s F at night and we are now bracing for another storm on Wed\/Thur of this week. \u00a0Making matters even worse, some of these areas become quite dangerous at night. \u00a0There is total lack of power so there are no lights anywhere. \u00a0Looters are rampant. \u00a0This situation has made it common to see people armed with knives, bats, guns and even bow and arrow to protect what little property they have left.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Imagine the situation of your brothers and sisters here who have lost everything, as most were only able to salvage a few articles of clothing. \u00a0Relief efforts have been hampered by lack of fuel in the region but the DRC and RBC&#8217;s are doing all they can to assist. \u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1227\" src=\"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/photo-30e9defd-c0df-41a5-b10e-4cf1387f20a3-20121105-133113-2048.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/photo-30e9defd-c0df-41a5-b10e-4cf1387f20a3-20121105-133113-2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/photo-30e9defd-c0df-41a5-b10e-4cf1387f20a3-20121105-133113-2048-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/photo-30e9defd-c0df-41a5-b10e-4cf1387f20a3-20121105-133113-2048-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/photo-30e9defd-c0df-41a5-b10e-4cf1387f20a3-20121105-133113-2048-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/photo-30e9defd-c0df-41a5-b10e-4cf1387f20a3-20121105-133113-2048-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Below are just a few pictures of those working the relief and a little of the devastation they face. \u00a0I tried not to include too many of the latter, or the worst ones as they are simply too heart wrenching for many. If you are in a position to send supplies or funds&#8230;or even volunteer your time or trades to this effort please prayerfully consider doing so as it is all desperately needed. \u00a0Even if circumstances prevent it for now, please know that this recovery will take months. \u00a0Even if you can&#8217;t do any of the above, do not forget these dear ones, and those working so hard to help them, in your prayers.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icloud.com\/journal\/el-gr\/#2;CAEQARoQ6Dn8_8Kr1oVV26wY42DDog;FC0E96E2-3D46-4A87-94D6-BFF303587DB5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.icloud.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 One week after hurricane Sandy many of our brothers and sisters remain in dire straights. \u00a0The have no power, water, or heat. To complicate things, temperatures are in the upper 20&#8217;s F at night&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}