Deadly Topography: The Staten Island Neighborhood Where 11 Died During Sandy
The stories that people tell about fleeing from Sandy’s surge in one section of Staten Island’s Eastern Shore all sound alike: the water came all at once, and gave little advance notice.
“It happened so fast that we just had to get up the stairs and tell everybody else that we were flooding, because they didn’t even know,” said Kristina Zakarya, who was getting ready to watch a movie on the ground floor of her mother’s house in Midland Beach.
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