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HipChick (8,432 posts)View profileNot everyone was a good neighbor in Sandy...Mother refused help, children found dead in storm..Police searching for two young brothers who were ripped from their mother's arms during Superstorm Sandy have found their bodies.The remains of Brandon, two, and Connor Moore, four, were discovered only yards from where they went missing in Staten Island, New York.The boys' mother Glenda Moore, 39, is said to have spent 12 hours screaming in the street after they were swept away, but residents would not help her look for them.The boys were sucked away by floodwater after Mrs Moore's car stalled and became stuck just before 6pm on Monday near the 400-block of Fr. Capodanno Boulevard in South Beach.Mrs Moore, a nurse, tried to hold on to them but was overpowered by the force of the storm.After the boys disappeared, Mrs Moore knocked on a nearby door for help but was told: 'I don't know you. I'm not going to help you.'Mrs Moore then tried another neighbor near her Staten Island home, but when she rang the bell they turned off the lights and refused to answer.As the storm raged around her, the nurse took shelter in a doorstep, screaming and staring at the waters which had just snatched away her children.Twelve hours later, at dawn when the weather calmed down, she found the strength to walk down the street and flag down a passing police car to raise the alarm.Her cousin Nancy Jean, 41, fought back tears as she described the ordeal.'I can’t believe the way she was treated by the people she went to for help,' she said.'The first person she knocked on, she begged them and said: "Please call 911".'They told her: "I don't know you" and closed the door. She tried another door but they turned the lights off.‘I can’t imagine what she was thinking then. She sat down for 12 hours and was just screaming. She was out of it. When it got to morning she went and found a police car and told him what happened.’A friend of the mother who lost two young sons to Superstorm Sandy today urged the public to 'keep them in your prayers, they're going to need it'.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2226332/Superstorm-Sandy-Mother-boys-swept-arms-left-screaming-street-12-hours.html
Jennicut (24,304 posts)2. Terrible.View profileI have two little ones of my own. Can't imagine. Just can't understand why no one would help her.
panAmerican (917 posts)4. Heartless. I don't know why, but I knew when I clicked the link, the mother was blackView profilesmh
ananda (11,255 posts)7. Even though there was no hope for the kids..View profile.. I will never understand the heartless inhumanity of those neighbors.It just defies any sense of decency.My mom would have brought her into the house and gotten everyoneinvolved in helping her. My dad, though racist, would have helped tooas long as he was with my mom. With his new racist wife, I don't know.
LisaL (21,372 posts)12. Most people aren't going to risk their life for a stranger.View profileOf course that doesn't explain why they wouldn't call 911 (assuming they didn't).
ecstatic (18,100 posts)35. Another woman was burned to ashes while neighbors watched onView profileAt first I was really upset and disappointed, but in trying to understand I've concluded that they must have been in extreme 0survivor mode and fearful that they would meet the same fate if they tried to help. She just wanted pictures. In Richmond Hill, Queens, a power line the length of a block on 105th Avenue between 134th and 135th Streets snapped and crumpled to the ground. The frayed end of the line began sparking wildly. The line was still sparking as Ms. Abraham walked down the driveway and into the rain-drenched street. She came into contact with one end of the snapped wire. She caught fire. A half-dozen or so witnesses watched in utter horror. They said her body burned for about a half-hour before the police and firefighters arrived.http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/31/nyregion/hurricane-sandys-lethal-power-in-many-ways.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0
malaise (99,376 posts)42. I would not try to save someone who was connected to a live wireView profileShe made a stupid decision. If the mother's story is correct (and that is not what I heard on Pix when the search started) then that was heartless.
FSogol (14,108 posts)96. I would (the live wire thing)View profileYou push the wire away from them using any nonconducting object like a rolled up newspaper. You could also attempt to move the wire by a thrown broom, a pushed chair, etc. Just don't physically touch the person or wire.Not sure I completely believe the story.
WinkyDink (34,501 posts)46. I'm calling it now: RACISM.
Mrs Moore, a nurse, tried to hold on to them but was overpowered by the force of the storm.After the boys disappeared, Mrs Moore knocked on a nearby door for help but was told: 'I don't know you. I'm not going to help you.'
Typical New Yorker.
She sat down for 12 hours and was just screaming
This couldn't be another Susan Smith story could it?
No way.
No I don't think so
.Well, something doesn't smell right.
"The nation that couldn’t be conquered by foreign enemies has been conquered by its elected officials" odawg Free Republic in reference to the GOP Elites who are no difference than the Democrats
Please stop. I don't know why this is upsetting me but she was trying to carry her two kids to safety. She unbuckled them and a wave washed over her. I am 100% sure that she is a mother grieving right now and those two angels should be the only thing we talk good about. I can't imagine and I probably would have gone into a psychosis and sat there for 12 hours too screaming if my babies were lost. I just can't imagine.
For those of us around here this story is absolutely horrifying. That poor Mother, and during a storm it made no sense that people didn't help her.
I can see someone not feeling it was safe enough to go out in the dark and get in the surging water to help her find them, there's a line everyone has to draw for themselves between bravery and foolishly throwing your life away in any rescue situation. A lot of people would draw that line somewhere else in this case, but by no means everyone. But not even calling 911 for her was just pure, unadulterated assholery.
Darwin at work.
Yep. We live beneath a very thin veneer of civility and safety. Stripping that away by thumbing your nose at common sense, never helps.