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October 30, 2013

East Coast Marks First Anniversary of Superstorm Sandy 
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Commemorations were held Tuesday to mark the first anniversary of
Superstorm Sandy, which flooded the East Coast and left 159 people dead.
People lined up along the New Jersey coastline holding flashlights to
light up the sky. On Staten Island, hundreds of people gathered at a
beachside park to mark the time the storm made landfall. New York City
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the city is being rebuilt to better handle
future storms.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg: "If another storm like Sandy ever
approaches our shores, it will find a far different city from the one
that Sandy left behind — a city much more able to withstand the
kind of surging sea waters and punishing winds that Sandy brought. We
are building New York City back stronger and smarter so that we'll be
resilient to a broad range of extreme weather events in the future,
including big coastal storms."

Thousands of people remain homeless from Sandy one year after the storm.

 

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