Hurricane Sandy: A Personal Experience Of Hurricane Katrina

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It was the morning of October 29 th, 2013 and we had been hearing about Hurricane Sandy coming to plaster the east coast with crazy sized rain and ridiculous storm clouds. Everyone was preparing to bunker down for the storm. People were evacuating their homes in hoping to return to them unharmed and safe to live in. But what most found when they returned, shocked everyone. People expected everything to be fine like the last hurricane but Sandy was the complete opposite.

When the people who were affected returned to their homes, they saw the unimaginable and the unspeakable. Their once beloved homes were torn to bits by storm surged waters and huge amounts of water flooding the streets, the homes, and the schools. The people of my town, Union

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