Stories from Sandy
Hurricane Sandy destroyed property and lives all along the Northeast Coast when the storm struck in October. Penn State students who live in New Jersey reflect on the storm and their homes.
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The Jet Star Roller Coaster
“It’s all surreal because on the day we left for college it was all intact and the day we returned for break was like a different world.”
~ Shane Cunneff
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The ferris wheel in Seaside Heights
“I remember sleeping on the beaches at Seaside with my friends in high school in the summertime to see the sunrise. It’s hard to look at the impact of Sandy without worrying about how they will replace everything that was lost, there are so many great memories there.”
~ Lauren Thomas
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Rides and debris
“The one thing it really made me appreciate was everything I have, because a lot of people’s memories got destroyed…we are all resilient, we all want to get back to the way things were.” ~Chris Busch
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The once beautiful beaches
“The town was almost unrecognizable, and there just wasn’t enough resources to help,”
~ Ryan Maloney
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What was Fun Town Pier
“On that boardwalk is the first place me and my boyfriend kissed, on prom weekend, and that’s all in the ocean now It’s really difficult to see. It was like the place over the summer where I started to really grow up.”
~ Corinne Lewin
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Nearly a month after hurricane Sandy
“Everyone had to evacuate and we lost power for 10 days, but we made out okay. A good majority of the kids I went to high school with lost everything. But I am an optimistic person. We will rebuild, maybe not the same as it was before but it’ll all work itself out”.
~ Mike Sharkey
~ by Torri Singer
