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Families hit hard at close-knit Breezy Point

As superstorm Sandy approached the Queens beachfront community of Breezy Point, Sheila McCarthy gathered her daughter and fled to the safety of her sister's house.

But it was only hours before she was fleeing again, this time clutching her child as she waded through floodwaters that reached chest high.

Sandy's brute force brought business to a halt and sowed chaos into the lives of residents...

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