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    Quote Originally Posted by Henley Honey View Post
    As if these displaced families haven't been through enough, now their houses are being burglarized!! My sister's and my 94-year-old aunt's houses were broken into over the weekend and my mother's neighbor's house as well.

    Fortunately, they removed most of their salvageable possessions and all their valuables to their temporary housing locations, but this is very upsetting. Talk about kicking someone when they are down. I hope that the Universe gives these low-life, rat bas^ar#s a hard and swift karmic kick in the a$$.

    The sad part is that -- knowing how isolated and off the beaten path Breezy really is -- it was most likely an "inside job". Sick.
    This is very disheartening. Still, I've lived long enough to know that what comes around goes around. We might not see it, but it'll happen.
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    Yep - That is truly sad that there are people out there that would do this kind of thing. But, sad as it is, unfortunately, it's not too surprising.

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    Appalling!

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    It's disgusting, but you hear this all the time. Low life's take advantage in times of disaster. Just as bad are the people who price gouge the people who need construction work done & other help. There are always people who zoom in & take advantage of these situations. Only hope that one day karma comes back to them. It's a bit*h...May they get what's coming to them!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Henley Honey View Post
    As if these displaced families haven't been through enough, now their houses are being burglarized!! My sister's and my 94-year-old aunt's houses were broken into over the weekend and my mother's neighbor's house as well.

    Fortunately, they removed most of their salvageable possessions and all their valuables to their temporary housing locations, but this is very upsetting. Talk about kicking someone when they are down. I hope that the Universe gives these low-life, rat bas^ar#s a hard and swift karmic kick in the a$$.

    The sad part is that -- knowing how isolated and off the beaten path Breezy really is -- it was most likely an "inside job". Sick.
    That's deplorable! It takes a special kind of sick person to do something like that.

    I'm sorry this happened to your family members HH, as if things weren't awful enough. Still keeping them all in my thoughts and prayers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Henley Honey View Post
    As if these displaced families haven't been through enough, now their houses are being burglarized!! My sister's and my 94-year-old aunt's houses were broken into over the weekend and my mother's neighbor's house as well.

    Fortunately, they removed most of their salvageable possessions and all their valuables to their temporary housing locations, but this is very upsetting. Talk about kicking someone when they are down. I hope that the Universe gives these low-life, rat bas^ar#s a hard and swift karmic kick in the a$$.

    The sad part is that -- knowing how isolated and off the beaten path Breezy really is -- it was most likely an "inside job". Sick.

    That is just so sick HH. Makes my stomach turn. How people can loot after such an awful catastrophe, and to their own too is despicable.
    I will keep all of the displaced people from this hurricane and all disasters in my prayers. It is so true what you say. We all take things like food and heat and shelter for granted, and yet there are so many people who are denied it, both temporarily and permanently.
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    So.... two years ago today is when Sandy hit. Today's my mother's birthday and so that's what made me remember. I remember it being a really foul night even in VA. Two years and while some areas have rebounded, others have yet to recover, especially economically. I remember my cousins being stuck on Hatteras Island in NC until after Thanksgiving, and even now, there was so much damage to the roads, even the smallest of storms wash out the roads there. NJ, and especially Atlantic City are still recovering, and was the hardest hit economically. Breezy Point, NY and the Rockaway area are still recovering. It just amazes me sometimes, the unforeseen havoc that Mother Nature can wreak, and the long term effects that can ripple for years.
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    The rebuilding of our Sandy demolished family summer home on LBI down the Jersey Shore should be done by early 2015. We are very lucky that it is a summer home, we have family friends still waiting to get back into their primary home. Our sacrifice of missing 2 summers of time with my large family (22 of us plus 4 dogs!) pales in comparison to the loss suffered by many, not just Sandy but Katrina, Wilma, earthquakes, tidal waves and now lava flows in Hawaii . As VA said, the power of nature is unbelievable. I have to say we experienced the best in human nature in the days following Sandy.

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