14 DAY TRIAL // Two boys from Staten Island, New York were swept away by floodwaters on Monday night. The bodies of 4-year-old Connor and 2-year-old Brandon have been found in an area covered with debris, not far from where they were reported missing.
Nurse Glenda Moore's vehicle got stuck on Fr. Capodanno Boulevard in South Beach, and, as hard as she tried to keep her children close, she lost them to the superstorm.
Daily Mail describes how the woman spent 12 hours looking for the boys, enlisting the help of passersby who completely ignored her pleas.
She knocked on doors around the neighborhood, and some residents turned off the lights after hearing her outside, to avoid putting themselves in danger. The woman's family are appalled by the reactions of people in the community.
"The first person she knocked on, she begged them and said: 'Please call 911' [...] They told her: 'I don't know you' and closed the door. She tried another door but they turned the lights off. […] I can’t imagine what she was thinking then. She sat down for 12 hours and was just screaming. She was out of it. When it got to morning she went and found a police car and told him what happened," the woman's cousin, Nancy Jean, said.
Connor and Brandon have been found yesterday, 30 yards (27 meters) from where they were taken away, following a search that begun Tuesday.
Their little bodies were buried in the marshlands off Father Capodanno, under trees that were tipped over during superstorm Sandy.
Police put on wetsuits to search the marshlands, brought dogs and received help from volunteers. The youngest, Brandon, was found waist-deep in the ice-cold water.
The Moores are just two of hurricane Sandy's casualties. At least 80 people died in the United States in storm-related incidents, and millions lived through power outages these days, and saw their homes being wrecked as floodwaters swept them away.