Brooklyn Residents Hit Hard By Hurricane Getting Fed Up

I posted earlier about the Katrina-like conditions in Coney Island. 

But that isn't the only place in Brooklyn where people are fed up with not getting help post-storm:

GERRITSEN BEACH, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – Frustration is turning into anger in parts of Brooklyn.

Residents living in Gerritsen Beach, an area next to the ‘Zone A’ mandatory evacuation zone, are more than upset. They are furious that the waterfront community wasn’t labeled Zone A.

Had they known the danger they were in, they said, they would have left.

As CBS 2′s Chris Wragge reported, the scene is the same at nearly every house in Gerritsen Beach. Victims’ possessions are scattered across their front yards, almost looking like a neighborhood yard sale.

Except it’s not a yard sale — it’s families trying to salvage their goods.

Most cars are also a total loss, covered in water.

One father told Wragge: “This is Gerritsen Beach. We are gonna work together to get some things done. They picked up our garbage – that’s fine – but we could use some gas.

The waterfront town is surrounded by water on 3 sides.

“If they thought the Belt Parkway was gonna hold back a surge,” said one resident, “Guess what? They were wrong.”

They knew Sunday morning that Zone B could get hit with this.

But they just called for an evacuation of Zone A and hoped for the best.

Unlike some in the media and the blogosphere, I think Bloomberg did a terrible job pre-storm - I blogged at length about that here.

The rich people on the Upper East Side may think Bloomberg did a fantastic job with the storm, but the people in Coney Island and Gerritsen Beach no differently.

Bloomberg better get these people help soon or he's going to have a Bloomberg Blizzard/Boxer Day Rebellion on his hands again.

But he's too busy making endorsement speeches and working on Superstorm Profession Development By Candlelight for NYC school teachers to get help to the outer boroughs, or even down to the LES.