After Sandy, crisis mode remains for many
Lindenhurst homeowner Emil Caiazza has been living outside his residence, in a mobile home with his dog, while he awaits the reconstruction of his house that was destroyed during superstorm Sandy. He is just one of several residents of that street still awaiting to return to a sense of normalcy. Videojournalist: John Paraskevas (Jan. 31, 2013) (February 19, 2013 9:24 PM)
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The fake palm tree floated in with Sandy. Emil Caiazza stuck it in the ground outside the trailer he'd parked on his lawn, a rare note of levity on a Lindenhurst block where the superstorm took far more than it left.
"Vacant, vacant, vacant and vacant," said Caiazza, as he looked toward the bay down South Fourth Street and counted his neighbors' houses. "And vacant, vacant, vacant and vacant....
