Hurricane Sandy Update
The Bowery Boys: New York City History
Tom Meyers
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2012
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. This is Greg Young from the Barry Boys. I just wanted to check in with |
| 0:05.5 | everybody following, of course, the insane events of the past few days. New York City is |
| 0:10.8 | still recovering, of course, from the events of Hurricane Sandy, which was the category |
| 0:14.9 | one hurricane, which has devastated the state of New York and also New Jersey and the |
| 0:19.5 | surrounding region. So what you're about to hear here, it's, will be almost immediately |
| 0:24.6 | outdated from the moment I finish recording it. These events are still ever-changing, really |
| 0:31.0 | history in the making and will eventually change parts of New York City forever. So I just |
| 0:35.5 | wanted to give you a snapshot of what's going on in the city at the present time. Tom and |
| 0:40.9 | I are absolutely thankful and blessed to have Barry Boys listeners all over the world. |
| 0:46.0 | So some of you may not know every single detail that's been happening. So I just wanted |
| 0:50.0 | to lay out the facts of the past few days. What it's been like on the ground here, so to |
| 0:54.0 | speak. And I, again, I apologize to later listeners, future listeners of this particular |
| 0:59.7 | show. If a lot of this information is outdated, because of course it's changing every day |
| 1:04.1 | here. We're still dealing with the effects. Now, Hurricane Sandy officially made landfall |
| 1:09.8 | in the United States on the evening of October 29th, 2012, near Atlantic City, New Jersey. |
| 1:16.7 | But while this historic storm has been devastating to up and down the eastern seaboard here, we |
| 1:23.6 | should keep in mind just how catastrophic it was even before it got here in the region |
| 1:28.4 | where it started in the Caribbean, just off shore of the island of Jamaica. It was a tropical |
| 1:33.6 | storm that became a hurricane on October 24th and quickly made landfall near the Jamaican |
| 1:39.0 | capital of Kingston. It was the first hurricane actually to make landfall in the country |
| 1:43.4 | in almost a quarter century. And then later it hit land again in Cuba. Dozens of people |
| 1:49.9 | in this region were killed by the storm with over 50 deaths and counting alone in the |
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