Alvarez’s Sandy Experience
New York was severely affected by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, particularly New York City, its suburbs, and Long Island. Sandy’s impacts included the flooding of the New York City Subway system, many suburban communities, and all road tunnels entering Manhattan except the Lincoln Tunnel, and the closure of the New York Stock Exchange for two consecutive days. Numerous homes and businesses were destroyed by fire, including over 100 homes in Breezy Point, Queens. Large parts of the city and surrounding areas lost electricity for several days, and several thousand people in midtown Manhattan were evacuated for six days due to the crane collapse at 6th ave with 57st (Carnegie 57). Bellevue Hospital Center and a few other large hospitals were closed and evacuated. At least 53 people died in New York as a result of the storm. Economic losses across New York were estimated to be at least $18 billion. This hurricane affected millions of residents/citizens of NYC including the Alvarez family. It was a change from top to bottom for them. The All the way from the lack of transportation, electricity, food shortage, as well as gas for their car in a situation like this which would be useful were all basically very scarce at the moment. They panicked just as any other human being would have done in a crisis like this. Since the Alvarez family lived on Red hook Brooklyn, their house was torn apart since it was located near the waterfront. They relocated to another location since that area was prominent to substantial flooding which occurred as soon as Sandy came in close to NY. As the hurricane came in near they prepared a few things to evacuate, food and clothing being the primary concern at the moment. Then they took off headed north to higher ground into shelters provided by the state. After they waited the hurricane out, they managed to make it back home, but to see much debris and rubble of their broken down home.
