Post - Sandy condition on Staten Island are both horrific and tragically underreported - many have died in flock implosion therapy , either unwilling or ineffective to evacuate in time . Now we ’re getting reports that the casualties have become so unsound that Egbert Intermediate School near Midland Beach has been turned into a makeshift overspill morgue .
We speak with one displaced duet who relay information they ’d received from former neighbour , lay claim that flooding death have been widely lowball : “ several mass have been able to see them draw out bodies ” from flooded homes , our sources say , with multiple local tweeters bear out the function of Egbert as body storage facility . Oneresidentsaid her neighbor - a former NYPD officer - gauge as many as 60 unidentified bodies are being stored at the school , and that she “ in person witnessed 11 dead body on Tuesday morning being remove from Oakwood beach area . ”
Another residenttook to Redditwith more purported details : “ Its 19 as of last dark . My father is a police sea captain in the NYPD , that was the latest from him . Could be more at this degree , but 200 does seem like a stretch . ”
“ Brother ’s neighbour is a deputy near LBI , NJ . He says the death toll is going to go up . Said he ’s pick up a figure of bodies floating , ” chime in another . ABC saysat least 19 are bushed in the borough - and it ’s worth remembering that number could spike once authorities go door to door , as was the casing in New Orleans post - Katrina .
The area , we ’re recount , was already prone to flooding due to a shoddy drain system that constipate up under even regular rain - so with a hurricane , the sea were pushed straight up homes .
We ’re waiting to hear back from the New York City Office of Emergency Management for more details , but an Army National Guard voice reassert that the morgue does survive - how bad the body count is remains murky . Using a politics edifice like this during pinch conditions is n’t unusual , but could indicate this thing is much bad than it seems in some corners of the country .
Update : John Annese , reporter with the Staten Island Advance , provides some grounds that the school dead room might be a hearsay and nothing more :
We sent out a newsman today – he speak to the shoal ’s head teacher , who said there was no mortuary . Similarly , Margie Feinberg , the spokeswoman for the city Department of Education say no mortuary is there .
Our newsperson passed the school multiple time , encounter no police , aesculapian examiner , ambulances , armed forces , no exigency vehicles at all around the schooltime . The principal say the school does n’t even have power .
The National Guard might just be confuse .
Update 2 : We ’ve received a full-grown raft of images from the devastation . Note the Nat’l Guard with the body suitcase . Awful .
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