It is very important now the night time temperatures in New York and New Jersey are dipping down into the 20s and 30s that police and firemen and neighbors and volunteers keep an eye on the health of everyone in their areas. Many people are so afraid of looters now in places like Staten Island and others because of there being no power that they aren't leaving their houses even if they are beginning to get sick or run down from camping without power in their homes.
So, this is not the gulf of Mexico or Texas or Florida where hurricanes usually occur in warmer temperatures. Hurricane Sandy may have killed people retroactively just by opening up their houses and knocking out their power. Especially very young children under about 5 to 8 years of age and people over 40 or 50 might be very vulnerable. Everything they are used to is gone, they get depressed, they aren't eating right, the water isn't good, they have no place to wash up to stay clean and sanitary, they have no good place to go to the bathroom, they have no place to warm up when they get cold etc.
Unless people are watching all this the next thing will be colds, then bronchitis or pneumonia and possibly deaths, all kinds of breathing problems and sanitation problems. So, at some point a choice might have to be made between protecting what is left of their possessions and actually staying alive. When people are scared and confused by too many changes and hypothermic from too much heat loss, hypothermia causes halucinations at a certain point and potential deaths from bad choices and halucinations. So, this is like an accident waiting to happen the longer the power is out in 20 to 30 degree temperatures throughout New York and New Jersey right now.
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