When we are sent to the last Monday afternoon report "rise superior to" hurricane sandy - those who refuse to leave their homes, even though the new mayor Michael bloomberg's mandatory evacuation order - we expect the wind and rain, but think it is not, we are unable to process.
We have our bottled water, rain gear, our chip, and prepared to tough ShiJian, cool wind blow gently point, in New York city at the end of the queens, a beach town and local Jim family citizens.
The two of us last arrived in ocean road bridge before 2 PM ET open to the public, and soon join the and 30 years old Lepera small beautiful. She gave us a nearby tour, and explain why she, like so many others, in a planned way, adhere to the hurricane sandy in the home, where she spent her entire life, and didn't give up her home.
"We adhere to in the end," she said. "Even if we have our roof, we will do this."
A lot of people a feeling, they have become the Irene through the hoop, but this time, they are not going to do so. Have the feeling the storm will be like any other storm hit east coast. It won't be depicted severe storms - but that is not what happened.
In the next few hours, but, cool wind blow gently point become a during the storm, suffered from the wind, rain and fire text lightning rod. Near the seashore, at least 80 home was destroyed, we were trapped in the confusion.
Anyone could imagine the last thing is fire. However, this exactly what happened.
Jim DUBREUIL: I remember looking out of the window at 8:30 am around at night, suddenly, we just see the... As we are in a state of forest, where you can see all these fire and wood flitter. This is in the distance and 8 PM 20 points, I don't think this will affect us. However, with the progress of every hour, storm, the fire was just was more and more closer to us, god, [soil pull gray looked at me and said, "we get the hell out of here," I'm like, "yeah, let's go." I have a garbage can and we thrown into the garbage bag and all of our camera equipment. Our family also do the same we out of the door.
Keturah grey: I only remember when I first saw that fire, think we have water side of the house, our house on the back of a tons of water, we have a fire, inevitably will close, because all of the wind. I just think, "how should we do? We where to start? We take this route, the route?" I'm worried about people, I know, because we have been in this beach, the earlier in the afternoon. There are many people in the fire, I just don't know how they are out of.
Jim DUBREUIL kinds: I think we are very lucky wave began to decline. Water is at 8 a.m. and 9 and 10 much higher, it is easier to get solution. Water will always to our chin, water finally in our waist. We put our backpacks, and get our garbage cans and ".
Gray soil Rachel: I think I was the first, we need a escape plan, but I don't know if I want to be strong enough to go through the water.
Jim DUBREUIL: wood of flight, with 80 wind you, you are experiencing wave. You try to through the floods and fire behind you, I only remember looking at you, "don't look back, do not look back."
Keturah ash: water fade, but the fire is more and more intense. We walk upstream, this is really difficult, we carry out a garbage can and many other people have children, they carry and bags.
Jim DUBREUIL: I think it will be at a point, has completely chaos, hell on earth, but everyone together. People help each other, "OK, we're going to take you out of here." We move from one place to the next. When we came to our first extraction point, it is possible the first a 100 meters, is apart from the us, I can smell kerosene. They tell us, there is a gas station. At this point, move and fire embers fire, soil again and looked at me, just like "let's get out of here." It is only after the fire seemed to us. We finally got a Roman Catholic church, for me, that moment, I was like, "we will be all right, these are all right, we have to leave here".
Gray soil Rachel: at this time, they say, no one can leave. You leave this time. Everybody, we are, in most cases, glad to hear these words.




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