My friends with shore houses on Long Island and New Jersey are posting pictures of the damage on Facebook. We're still devastated in this part of the country. Just a couple of links on this topic:
The death toll has increased to 121.
I read every word of this article on the impact of Sandy on one community in Staten Island.
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Glad that you are posting these as I can see already that the news cycle for the non-NY areas has simplified the story to “Sandy done”.
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Flying into New Orleans about a year after Katrina, I could still see plenty of buildings that still had blue tarps as roofs.
Some hurricane change/damage is permanent, some of it is very long lasting. (When my family moved to the Gulf Coast about five years after Camille, you could still see a fair number of foundation-chimney combinations that were all that remained of waterfront buildings.) The national spotlight moves away pretty darn fast.
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The novel Stormy Weather by Carl Hiassen hit home to me how devastating Andrew was in the weeks and months afterward in southern FL. Fiction, I know, but still made an impact.
What’s happening on Long Island is crazy. My sister got electricity back on Saturday, 10 days without power. My mother got it the day before. There have been transformer fires; people down the street from my sister lost power after getting it back. Friends in Plainedge got their electricity back, then lost it again in the snowstorm. What gets me is that my mom, sisters and friends are all in the middle of the island, not in any of the shore communities.
The article on Staten Island was heartbreaking. I live about 3 miles inland from water that would be affected by a hurricane, and I was still on alert. I hate to say it, but I wonder how much Staten Island leadership was to “blame.” Did they do enough to get people out of Zone A?
I feel bad for the Zone B people in Gerritsen Beach. I was watching Twitter that night and got hooked into the news of the flooding there. They were taken totally by surprise because they weren’t in a mandatory evac zone, and they got swamped. Stupid stupid on the part of the emergency planners. Look at a map–it was clear they’d get swallowed by sea surge.
I’m seeing pics from Jones Beach and Robert Moses (my childhood playgrounds). Large swaths of beach, no more. I’m planning to try to go down there to see for myself over Thanksgiving.
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