Documenting Hurricane Sandy

When I heard news of a hurricane reaching New York, the thought that came to mind was “is it possible?” I have never experience the events of a hurricane and I didn’t plan to. But when Monday hit, the wind was howling and I heard rain drops pelting the floor and windows, it was far from over.  At around 7:30pm, I lost my electricity, at first it came back on for about a minute and then it went out again and never came back on.  So the next day not knowing when the power would be back, my family prepared for the worst, we geared up the flashlights and radio and tried to cook any food that were not spoiled, and we would head to bed at around 8pm.  This would happen for about a week, during this entire week we would head to a local supermarket that had a café where we can charge our electronics.  During the entire week, there was one moment when I realize that the damage had been done by Sandy, and that is the 3 hour wait for gas my family had to endure, I had never seen anything like it.  But it wasn’t over, about a week into the power outage in my neighborhood, we decided to stay at a hotel, because my house had become a gigantic freezer and it wasn’t going to warm up anytime soon.  Staying at the hotel gave me a bit of relieve because I had time to reflect on what had happen the past week.  First was the fact that my house was not hit very hard and only the power went out, there was no damage done or any flooding, and second was that none of my family members weren’t harm by the aftermath of Sandy , and last is that I was unharmed from all this.  I do wish for those that were affected by Sandy to a safe road to recovery.