Secretary Napolitano needs to coordinate spiritual councilors as well.

Staten Island is an older and well established community. This disruption is going to be hard on them. They have not had to face such trauma before. Older Americans will also have far less resilience to their circumstances, especially in a community as wonderfully settled and consistent at this.

There are some wonderful places of worship on Staten Island that may need assistance in providing all the help needed for their communities.

The idea they are cut off from medical attention and their regular activities are very much a looming threat. They have raised generations of family and that reliable life is now something more elusive. It is very threatening. The idea people have died at the mercy of water is more than scary. 

Staten Island is also mindful of other New Yorkers. The people there were actively involved in receiving people from Lower Manhattan the day September 11th occurred. I know because a family member found his way home to his three children and wife in a New Jersey community by taking the Statin Island Ferry to transition closer to home. He watched the smoke billow from the site while being grateful for his life as he was about to enter his office in Building Seven when the terrorists struck the first tower.

The people of Staten Island are wonderful people. They are all about family, children, community and enjoying the simple pleasures of life as more important than the latest fancy invention now marketing for a few hundred dollars US.

They deserve the attention of the nation, yet alone the federal authorities that can make a difference. They are wonderful examples of life as it should be in the USA.

This has little to do with Staten Island, but, I am assuming the Tramway is shut down. It needs to be thoroughly inspected if it hasn't been already.

The Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation (click here)