So its been almost 5 days that category-1 hurricane Sandy struck US and I am one of the 4 million unfortunate people in NJ still without electricity. For the first two days, Monday and Tuesday, we were literally in dark without electricity and internet, laptop, mobile batteries all drained completely, no way to talk to near and dear ones. Families back home started worrying, but they were constantly updated by news channels about all the happenings here.
The storm created lot of devastation with almost 160 deaths , 56 alone in US and 67 in Carribean and more than 60$ billion loss. The restoration services are in full swing in NJ and NY. PSEG says it could take upto one more week to get power back. Luckily, everything is back to normal on Rutgers campus, so whole day we spend on campus, sometimes sleep there too. People celebrated Halloween amidst the storm. In a way, it was good, people had some fun after the nightmares from the storm. I was hoping that NYC marathon will be on its schedule, but mayor Bloomberg postponed it. Thats understandable , given many areas are still flooded , the cleanup process still going on and people have just started getting back to normal life.
Presidential elections on the way too, just 3 days to go. So many things happening, but salute to US and its people for handling the situation very well, not playing politics in the middle of this storm and doing the right thing. NJ governor Christie, though a republican, praised President Obama publicly for the way govmnt has handled the situation. And il end on governor Christie's respone when asked how well the state is prepared for elections, ' I dont give a damn about election day, for me restoring things back to normal after the storm is more important than anything else now' . Thats the american spirit im talking about :)
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