11-01-2012, 08:18 PM
NEW YORK — The bodies of two boys who were separated from their frantic mother at the height of Superstorm Sandy by the force of rising water were found Thursday in a marshy area at the end of a street, authorities said.
Two-year-old Brandon Moore and 4-year-old Connor Moore were swiped into swirling waters as their mother tried to escape her SUV on Monday amid rushing waters that caused the vehicle to stall, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said as he announced the discovery of the bodies.
Police said the mother, Glenda Moore, was going to her sister's home in Brooklyn when she tried to flee the vehicle with the boys, only to have the force of the rising water and the relentless cadence of pounding waves rip their small arms from her.
This story gets worse. I can't find a link right now (just heard it on the news) but apparently the woman left her house in the middle of the storm because they lost power (stupid, stupid, STUPID). After she left the car she held on to a tree (the reporter said "for hours") clinging to her two sons. She makes it up to a house next to the tree with her boys, knocks and the owner REFUSED HER ENTRANCE. She then took her boys in back and tried to break in with a concrete flower pot (I gather with no success) and the boys were swept away.
The guy who owns the house doesn't deny anything except he insists that it was a man trying to get in. When the reporter asked him, regardless if it was a man, would you have helped? He replies, "I'm not trained, I was wearing shorts and flip-flops" blah, blah, blah.
Unfucking believable!!!
Two-year-old Brandon Moore and 4-year-old Connor Moore were swiped into swirling waters as their mother tried to escape her SUV on Monday amid rushing waters that caused the vehicle to stall, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said as he announced the discovery of the bodies.
Police said the mother, Glenda Moore, was going to her sister's home in Brooklyn when she tried to flee the vehicle with the boys, only to have the force of the rising water and the relentless cadence of pounding waves rip their small arms from her.
This story gets worse. I can't find a link right now (just heard it on the news) but apparently the woman left her house in the middle of the storm because they lost power (stupid, stupid, STUPID). After she left the car she held on to a tree (the reporter said "for hours") clinging to her two sons. She makes it up to a house next to the tree with her boys, knocks and the owner REFUSED HER ENTRANCE. She then took her boys in back and tried to break in with a concrete flower pot (I gather with no success) and the boys were swept away.
The guy who owns the house doesn't deny anything except he insists that it was a man trying to get in. When the reporter asked him, regardless if it was a man, would you have helped? He replies, "I'm not trained, I was wearing shorts and flip-flops" blah, blah, blah.
Unfucking believable!!!