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I heard this big noise and I looked outside the window the second floor and I saw half

the house just collapse. Real people. The ship listed all the way over to a 90 degree angle and we all slid off the deck

into the water.

Who faced death?

I didn't know whether we were going to drown, we were going to be electrocuted or if the fire was going to take us.

And lived to tell how.

I had one last phone call to make, I called 911 and I got all circus were busy. At that point I didn't think I was

going to make it. This is I survived. It's October 2012 in Tom's River Township, New Jersey.

Mike lives with his grandparents in their house next to the bay.

The news was saying that Hurricane Sandy was going to be a superstorm.

I'd been through a hurricane before, Hurricane Irene a couple years ago, and that was a mandatory evacuation.

So I figured if this wasn't mandatory to leave your house, I was going to be okay.

Before the storm hit, my father picked up my grandparents.

They even told me, you should get, you should leave, come with us, come up north, be safe, don't be stupid.

I thought by being down there, I thought maybe I could save the house.

I just didn't want to go into that house,

see it all wrecked, and not know how it happened.

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