The beach is gone. The ocean nibbles the road. These Long Island residents choose to stay.
was headed toward his home on Long Island’s southern shore, he threw a “hurricane party.” Concern overtook the boozing and laughter as water from the ocean surge extinguished the fire roaring in his living room. Cocktail tables that held beer were left floating in seawater.
Where five bungalows used to sit, only one is left, the others bought and demolished by the government. Empty seashells dot what was once an asphalt road, now eroding away into marsh. Mastic Beach is one of the lowest lying areas on Long Island.to building resiliency to an encroaching ocean. “The goal was, if you want to stay, you can elevate your home out of harm’s way, or you can move out of harm’s way,” Lozito said. At no point in the process “did we ever want to displace anybody who did not want to leave.”
“Every time I have to go out of my house for whatever reason … I don’t look forward to it,” said Wimett, who is 62. “I’m not happy about it because getting up and down the stairs with the cane and things of that sort, it’s very difficult for me to get around.” “We’ve been out here since 1967, grew up out here,” said Mike Kobasiuk, whose home received four feet of flooding during Sandy. “We’ve seen storms come, we’ve seen them go. This is our home.”As the memory of Sandy’s destruction fades for some Mastic Beach residents, the possibility of another disaster looms.
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