Staten Island resident Glenda Moore, 39, had a Sandy experience that is unimaginable. Her toddler sons, Connor, 4, and Brandon 2, were ripped from her arms by a torrent that flooded her stalled Ford Explorer. She ran to the homes of unneighborly neighbors for help. One told her: “I don’t know you. I’m not going to help you.” The other turned off the lights and refused to answer when she rang the doorbell.
Moore was helpless and spent the next 12 grueling hours on the street crying.
The next day, police discovered the boys’ lifeless bodies a few feet away from the SUV, buried under water, trees and debris.
Moore was headed to her sister’s home in Brooklyn where she was hoping to find refuge.
A petite, 5-foot-3 and weighing 130 pounds, there was no way Moore could save her boys. They were pulled from her grip after a series of waves — that rose above their heads — continuously crashed into the SUV stuck in the marsh. A final wave flipped the SUV over and ended up shoving Moore.
Moore and her husband Damien, a city sanitation worker, are distraught. –yvette caslin
