In recovering from Superstorm Sandy, a setback for every triumph


A woman walks through her burnt house in the Breezy Point neighborhood which were left devastated by Hurricane Sandy in the New York borough of Queens on November 14, 2012. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The road to recovery can be measured in exclamations, some of execration, some of joy.

"It's like a living hell," said Latoya Miller, 29, of Red Hook, one of the New York neighbourhoods submerged by the rising sea during Superstorm Sandy. "If it wasn't for the people giving out food and blankets, I don't know what we would do. There'd be a riot out here."

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