ONE WEEK BEFORE SANDY HIT I WAS READING A POSTS OF A STORM THAT COULD BE COMING OUR WAY... i read all the storm charts amd warned my friends on ham radio and off tue radio ... i said it one week before it happened to Get ready .. its now saturday getting things ready flashlights lanterns extra has cans and one for my friend Chris I knew this wa not going to be anything like Hurricane Irene... people are now getting nervous about the storm.. warnings are out.. stored are running low along with huge lines at gas stations and supermarkets seemed like everyone was out getting ready. ONE YEAR LATER THINGS ARE BACK TO NORMAL IN SOME AREAS. I WONT FORGET DRIVING TO WORK IN THE MORNING... VERY DISMAL WATCHING THE WATER CRASHING OVER THE 69th STREET PIER ON THE SIDE OF THE BELT PKWY... THE WINDS GETTING STRONGER BY THE HOUR. TALKING ON THE HAM RADIO ALL MY GOOD FRIENDS TELLING EVERYONE TO BE CAREFUL AMD BE SAFE... I TOLD THEM THE WORST WONT BE HERE TIL AROUND 6pm... I WARNED WHO EVER I KNEW AFTER WORK I WENT BY BAY PKWY BY THE WATER AROUND 4:50 pm and SAW THE WATER BREACHING OVER TUE ROCKS.. I THEN PASSED THRU NEPTUNE AVE CONEY ISLAND SAW STREETS WERE FLOODED CONTINUED TO SHEEPSHEAD BAY. THE WATER WAS LESS THAN A FOOT FROM THE SIDEWALK ON EMMONS AVE VERY FEW PEOPLE JUST MYSELF NYPD AND FEW FISHING BOAT OWNERS. I THEN WENT HOME ATE DINNER AND TOOK A QUICK SHOWER NOT KNOWING THAT WAS GOING TO BE THE WARMEST SHOWER I TOOK FOR THE NEXT 3 days. Got DRESSED AMD THEN ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE THE FURY OF THE STORM THE HOWLING WINDS TREES CRASHING ALL AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND THEN AROUND 6:45 pm EVERYTHING WAS PITCH BLACK... I HAD MY FLASHLIGHTS AND LANTERNS ALL READY..... I WENT OUT CHARGED MY PHONES NANCYS PHONES AND CHRISTOPHERS PHONES IN MY CAR .... COPS PULL UPSIDE ME AMD SAY THE WATER IS COMING IM LIKE FRIM WHERE SGT TELLS ME FROM SHEEPSHEAD BAY... I WENT DOWN AND WAS IN 1FOOT OF WATER BY e15 st amd avenue Y FOLLOWED FDNY BUT A TREE WAS DOWN BLOCKING EVERYTHING WENT UP 15 st POWER LINES DOWN TREES AMD TRANSFORMERS AND THEN BACKED OUT AND GUNNED MY TRUCK THRU. I warned PEOPLE THAT I KNEW AMD KEPT GOING BY KNOW AVE X WAS FLOODED .. REMEMBER LISTENING TO THE RADIO WHILE IN THE SHOWER AND HEARING THE NATIONAL GUARD WAS IN MANHATTAN BEACH GETTING PEOPLE OUT OF THERE ... Its NOW AROUND 9:30 LISTENING TO THE 60-61 pct radio . Was chaotic hearing there evacuating the whole pct in the 60-pct. hearing the police officers fleeing from the rising waters and going into the housing buildings waiting for the NYPD BOATS THAT WERE ALL OVER MAKING RESCUES IN CONEY ISLAND.. The water now was 3-4 feet deep by Coney Island hospital. The 60 pct platton lieutenant was on Neptune ave. and Cropsey ave Saving people in a zodiac . The worst was now upon us... These are my accounts of the storm 1 yr later. I think I wrote enough ...,,. God bless America and God bless all my FRIENDS FAMILY AMD GOD BLESS ALL THE HEROS OUT THERE ...
Posted on: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 13:48:02 +0000
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