Roosevelt Island resident Bill Long shares scene this morning of:

On the north end of Roosevelt Island about 11am on Mon, 10/30. This 9-10 hours before Sandy makes landfall

adding:

Roosevelt Island Public Safety Dept on the job shooing people away from the East River…with the wind helping them out

Roosevelt Island resident Frank Farance reports:

Members of RI CERT staffing evacuation center at Aviation HS in LIC

More on the Roosevelt Island Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) team from previous post on Hurricane Irene last year.