The Gomez family shows, room by room, their home in rubble. They have thrown away tons of their goods that, bought with savings and effort, were ruined in moments by the flood that the Ida storm brought last Wednesday.
Bianey Gómez explains her feelings: “Emotionally, we are not also 100%. But we are trying to assimilate that we did lose everything because we lost beds, televisions … More for the children, who are going back to school. My daughter has to go to school and he does not have a computer to write, neither does the child, school supplies, food “.
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Bianey and her family members have been so busy that they were unaware that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Charles Schumer accompanied Mayor de Blasio on a tour of the hardest-hit places in Queens, or that President Biden declared New York an area of major disaster.
“Now they do listen to us and help the whole community. Because many people suffered a lot, many people died and the truth is that they suffered the same fate as us,” Gómez describes.
The measure will channel federal financial relief for the city, but most of all, for New Yorkers like them. Bianey thinks that this money would be a blessing like having been lucky enough to be a neighbor of her own brother, who lives on the second floor: “Even if it is piled up, we are there, but we want to find a home.”
While awaiting the arrival of federal aid, the Gomezes have set up a website to solicit donations from other New Yorkers. They want at least to get back what their children will need to go back to school.
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