This winter seems to never end, bringing yet another storm which savaged the northeast with hurricane force winds reaching upwards of 75 mph and torrential rains accumulating to 6 inches in some areas of the tri-state region. Horribly, six people were killed as hundreds of trees were uprooted by the fierce winds.

More phone calls were made to 9-1-1 than even on the worst disaster in New York’s history, the attack on the World Trade Center of September 11th, 2001. According to the reports of several eye witnesses as told to the New York Daily News,

‘“Shingles were flying off. It looked like the ‘Wizard of Oz,’” said Angela Juno, 56, a school aide at Public School 277 who lost her roof and everything that was in the top floor of her home in Gerritsen Beach, Brooklyn.
‘Andrew Gottlieb, 27, of Marine Park, Brooklyn, moved his 2009 Hyundai Santa Fe to a safer spot after a small tree fell on it. He awoke to find it crushed by a second, larger tree. “What are the odds of this happening?” he asked.’

Electric service was also interrupted for many hours in many places, Staten Island being the worst-off. In some hardest hit areas there might not be restoration of power for some until the end of the week, according to a spokesman for Con Edison.