Summary(0:26) Born on Staten Island and moving around -- (1:54) The effect on Staten Island from hurricanes -- (3:21) Having mixed feelings about Staten Island -- (4:57) Remembering the weather and neighborhood changing growing up -- (6:31) Toad Hill in Staten Island -- (7:06) Storms affecting Brooklyn -- (7:38) Working in women shelters during the storms -- (9:47) “Mr. Climate change” -- (11:22) Climate change and the political situation -- (11:54) Feeling the environment changing physically -- (14:05) Skeptic to climate hysteria -- (18:32) Worrying about lack of emergency plans for the storms and floods -- (20:23) Experiencing evacuation after Katrina -- (21:41) Tired of politicians squabbling against each other instead of making solutions -- (23:29) Considering herself a Darwinist, optimist and realist.
NoteAudio interview conducted on October 26, 2018, by Genesis Baez at the Central library. Collected through Our Streets, Our Stories, an oral history project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is a partnership with Services for Older Adults and the Brooklyn Collection.
SubjectHomeless persons ; Hurricane Sandy, 2012 ; Hurricane Katrina (2005) ; Brooklyn Technical High School (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.) ; Ferries ; Germany ; Housing projects ; Crime ; Food stamps ; Emergency food supply ; Staten Island Ferry ; Hurricanes ; Trump, Donald, 1946- ; Emergency management ; Floods ; Storms ; Evacuation of civilians
RightsThis work is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Users are free to share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes as long as appropriate credit is given to the source and new material created with this work is shared under the same conditions.
TitleOral history interview conducted with Erin P. Rooney on 2018 October 26.