Jack Zhang ‘14
EE News Editor
It has been dubbed the “Frankenstorm,” “Superstorm,” and “Hurricane of the century.” In fact, for many meteorologists, it has already surpassed records as the largest Atlantic hurricane as well as the second costliest hurricane, only surpassed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
A combination of factors made this storm so powerful. The first was its large size. From the eye of the storm, Sandy stretched to 175 miles in diameter, allowing it to carry heavy winds and rain. Also, the fact that it was slow moving cause more damage to densely populated areas.
The second factor was its timing. During the time it approached the east coast, it butted heads with an arctic storm coming from Canada. Cool winds from this storm met with tropical winds from Sandy, creating the super storm. In addition, high tides caused by the full moon created a formula for disaster.
For citizens of Trumbull, so much was disrupted by the storm. School was canceled for a week, SAT tests were rescheduled, Halloween was postponed, marking periods were moved back. But most importantly was the loss of power.
Junior Kiana Akunzunduh who lives on top of a hill said, “For days we lived without electricity as well as water.”
Trees were overturned and were ravaged by the storm as they were toppled, torn, and split in half. Neighbors sought shelters from neighbors, friends, and family bunked together. For several days, damaged power lines forced people to live without working refrigerators and sometimes water.
Jackie Rose, a junior said “Over 300 students from Fairfield University were displaced because of the storm. We offered shelter to two of them who stayed at our house.”
The storm was especially inconvenient for us seniors. The first day of the storm when we still had power I was able to work diligently on college applications and felt really productive but once the power was gone I couldn’t do anything. I felt really behind and unproductive, having so much free time but not being able to make any progress with my applications.
I hear many colleges gave extensions due to the storm. Does anyone know about that? Did any college you applied to, give an extension to get all the materials in?
I know that all of my schools that I have yet to send in applications to extended my deadline to at least a week longer but for some I still have another week to send them in. Also, one of my schools, High Point University, expressed that if you contact the school about your situation, they will allow to turn in the application under whichever deadline you prefer.
Hurricane Sandy was the worse that past. It was insanely crazy of how much power had gone off. This left many students without school.
Sandy left many people without power. There were trees on the ground and many fell on the power lines. Sandy turned the East Coast into a disaster by leaving many families without homes.
Hurricane sandy did some damage in trumbull, but the most important thing that we lost was power. Huricane sandy made us relize how important power was to us, and it made me relize for how lucky we are to always have electricity all the time. Alot of people had to do things the old way, like using the fire place for warmth rather than using the heat. For dinner that night, i cooked hotdogs on our fireplace 😛
Hurricane Sandy was horrible. I’ve never lost power in my house during one of the storms we’ve had but this time when it hit we were unprepared and I had to spend the week with my grandparents without being able to go home for more than 20 minutes without freezing!
Hurricane Sandy was TERRIBLE. I hated losing power, and it made me realize how much we need technology in our lives. We lost power for 4 days, and it made the days go by slower. You can hear the wind and my trampoline literally made a 360 flip. I hated using flashlights everywhere and making use of the daylight. My friends and me on my block all went to someones house and played board games all day. We all had fun since we were together and it was better then sitting at home with nothing do. On that day the light switched on, we were at a friends house and the her garage light switched on and this feeling was pure happiness shot through me, I ran home and immediately turned on my TV to make up for all those days I missed. I’m just happy we got it back!
Me and my family where without power for only two days, but my grandparents from long island where without power for over a week. They just reciently got power and had to spend most of their time out of the house.
My house in stamford got it worse than mine in trumbull. The front and backyard were covered with branches the length of cars. The power was out for over a week. Fortunately we had a generator in my dad’s truck and were able to power the whole house but it wasnt the same. Even though it is great to have a generator, you’re hoping no one is crazy enough to steal it. Now just like everyone else, we are trying to get things back to normal.