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South Shore residents complain of looting

A message left on a fence of a

Photo credit: Newsday / J. Conrad Williams Jr. | A message left on a fence of a home in Freeport eight days after superstorm Sandy. (Nov. 6, 2012)

Amy Cahill and her family fled from their Mastic Beach home on the eve of superstorm Sandy only to return the next day and find their flooded house ransacked.

"My daughter goes into her room and says, 'Mom, where is my TV?' " said Cahill, 35, whose home was burglarized sometime during the three days the family was gone.

"They had to have come in at high tide sometime," said Cahill, who...

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