For those of you who think this is a funny topic, it is anything but that. Far Rockaway was one of the areas ordered to evacuate because it is a narrow low lying peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean and the Bay right in the storm’s path and the hurricane is supposed to get there at high tide, pushing a wall of water anywhere from 3 to 6 feet high. Many frum people wouldn’t leave on Shabbos despite the saccana and by the time Shabbos was over ( after 8:30 ) it was too dangerous ( Mayor Bloomberg just announced that if you didn’t leave, stay where you are )
