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Originally Posted by shalomuall
Glad you guys are ok. I was heartbroken to see pictures of the damage. Its been a few years since I've been back to visit my neighborhood in Toms River and Seaside but some of my friends are still there and have suffered great loses. Sending hugs and prayers to everyone out there.
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Glad that everyone who recently posted is ALIVE and SAFE.
However, so much devastation and home damage occurred.
This is a general "glad you are o.k." to all of them........
The New Jersey shore was the place to go when we were teenagers.
To see everthing wiped out is so very sad. Destruction is mind boggling.
They were not kidding when they said that the full moon would cause high tides and that everyone should evacuate. My heart goes out to that poor mom on Staten Island who lost her two year old and four year old son after her S.U.V. got stuck in some water..............she apparently hung on to a tree.......then made it up to a man's home , which looked quite substantial and none the worse for wear.........he wouldn't answer her knocks on the door; she eventually threw a flower pot through his back glass door or window.............he still wouldn't let her in. Probably thought she was a looter...........JUST A NIGHTMARE STORY. Those poor toddlers. Their bodies were found in a marsh......several feet from each other. He actually cursed at the reporter and photog who was trying to find out the gist of the story. He said "she" was a "man" and that he never heard the knocks.
My elderly cousin lives on Staten Island with her daughter, son in law and three grandchildren..........plus her son and his kids, also reside on Staten Island etc. He's a retired New York City policeman with a long owned vacation home in Point Pleasant N.J. I wonder how that ended up?
Staten Islanders DESERVE to be furious.......where was the help???? Slow to arrive, that's for sure.
We have cousins in Bergen County New Jersey.....half of their town is o.k., the other half not so good..........they still have power but no cell phone or telephone........they are not on a river or near the ocean.
Other towns with relatives are "inland" and they will not have power for over a week.
People we know who have to go to business in New York City were told NOT TO COME IN as everything is still surrounded by water in the low lying areas.........our cousin's son's girlfriend lives in Hoboken and she was o.k. on the 6th floor but it's flooded at ground level.........so she came to be with her parents in Bergen Co. who just got their power back on......and so she could take a shower.
Stories all over New York and New Jersey coming in from relatives.
My half brother lives near Point Pleasant with his two autistic daughters.
My husband's cousins (elderly) live in Toms River, N.J.....also was surprised to see damage there.
WE have family in Absecon, Little Egg Harbor, and up and down the Jersey shore........no power, no phones.
We thought IRENE was bad in Vermont last August of 2011 but that basically destroyed our ROADS and BRIDGES up the center of the Green Mountains..........so small towns were isolated and couldn't go east and couldn't go west; and sometimes even north was blocked...........some barns and animals and homes floated down rivers...........BUT NOTHING LIKE THE DISASTER IN NEW JERSEY AND NEW YORK and other coastal states............
Last year during Irene, a neighbor of our nephew in New Jersey got sucked into a storm drainage pipe when he was trying to relieve the water pressure on his suburban street......for the neighbors. Didn't realize the power of the water..........WATER IS POWERFUL AND DAMAGING.
Unfortunately, his was not a happy ending, although they searched for him all night long........hoping he'd found some type of air pocket.
Gruesome thought. He was a landscaper by trade and just felt that he might help to prevent further flooding in his neighborhood by opening the storm drain cover...................
My thoughts and prayers have gone out to all living in Hurricane Sandy's path................even though I can't answer each one. A nightmare for sure.