Brendan Moore, 2, and Connor Moore, 4, were swept away from their mother by a surge of water. The police said the cause of death was drowning. Here, Glenda Moore, their mother, at their funeral.
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: November 17, 2012
At last count, (click here) officials were attributing 97 deaths to Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath within a 65-mile radius of New York City, in an area that stretched across New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, from Burlington County in New Jersey to Suffolk County on Long Island to North Salem, N.Y., in Westchester County, where Jack Baumler, 11, and Michael Robson, 13, died Oct. 29 when a tree struck Jack’s family home.
Some patterns emerged in mapping the deaths in the region. Elderly
residents were hit especially hard, with close to half of the people who
died age 65 or older. In New York City, 34 of the 43 deaths occurred in
Queens and on Staten Island, and most people perished at the height of
the storm, drowned by the surge. In more inland areas in New Jersey and
upstate New York, downed trees were more often the cause of death, as
they were on Long Island, where falling trees claimed the most lives —
four in Suffolk County and one in Nassau — of a total of 13 in the two
counties within the 65-mile radius.
The days after the storm were also deadly, as people tried to clear away
storm damage or used poorly ventilated generators to ward off the dark
and the cold.
Some victims’ names have not been released, as the authorities seek to reach their families....
