Community Update

I live with my husband, 2 adult kids, and elderly parents. We left LB as per the evacuation notice. We piled our two cats and dog , along with a few things to stay overnight at my brothers house in Brightwaters. Little did we know, we would be there for a good three weeks. While all of our things were waiting for us back home, under 4 feet of sewage. No heat no water, no flushing toilets, no electricity. When we did get heat back and electricity, we returned home. While others were already done piling garbage in front of their homes, we were just getting started. Reality kicked in. Photo albums of my entire past history, being pregnant, kids births, birthdays, first days of school pictures, all covered in a film of dirty dried water and growing mold. Those were the things that hurt the most to me. Losing my brand new refrigerator, new sofa and DVD's meant nothing to me. Of course we also lost the stove, bed, well, everything we owned. Everyone pitched in and we doned face masks and tackled what seemed like an unbearable task. The front of the house and all down the street, looked like a war zone. I was in a fog, a bad dream. But like when I had breast cancer, I did not let it get to me. The one thing I did when I was sick was have undaunting faith that all would be wgood again. My kids were 4 and 6 when I had cancer. They saw that yes, we have bad things to deal with, but with faith andhope, we move past it. And what Sandy took from us were just material things. I have what counts, a great family, healthy kids. We would be ok. And we are ok. We are better than ok.