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The Brian Lehrer Show

Sandy Anniversary Call-In

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

Bryan, Politics, Arts, Npr, News, Wnyc, News Commentary, Nyc, Daily News, Lerer, New, Public, Radio, Media, York

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Twelve years later, listeners reflect on the experience of Superstorm Sandy, what they learned and what has changed.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Listen to support it, WNYC Studios.

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Brian Lear on WNYC and we'll end today with kind of a climate story of the week

0:17.6

addendum it's a call in on the 12th anniversary of Super Storm Sandy for any of you who are personally

0:25.1

affected by the storm when it hit locally on October 29th, 2012. It was 12

0:31.2

years ago today. So what happened in your case? Let's tell those stories for the

0:36.1

sake of posterity and maybe for the sake of helping people currently starting

0:41.0

to dig out from Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

0:44.1

Did the government or your insurance company

0:46.9

respond effectively as you experienced it

0:50.5

regarding your

0:53.0

issues even resolve to this day

0:55.0

and what advice might you have for people

0:58.0

now dealing with their issues down south

1:00.0

after Hurricanes Milton and Helene

1:02.0

212 433 WNYC, 212 433 9692.

1:10.3

12 years to the day later, some oral history from you on how Hurricane Sandy or

1:15.8

Super Storm Sandy because it wasn't technically a hurricane when it hit our

1:18.9

area affected you or your property and maybe is still affecting you or your property and

1:28.3

lessons to be learned for others.

1:30.3

212 433 WNYC 212 433 9692 I think we forget because we focus on the

1:41.4

property damage from Superstorm Sandy that 90 people died in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

1:48.0

Those deaths attributed to the storm and so much damage of course to homes businesses cars roads peace

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