What does it mean to own a home in the United States after a disaster like Superstorm Sandy hits?
Bungalow owners, Bonnie and Scott, are finding out what happens when the American Dream gets moldy, wet and falls away.
Webisode One
Driving out to the house.
Webisode Two
Bonnie recounts what happened on October 29, 2012. The smell of the mold inside the house is overwhelming.
Do the Math
NYC has 306M to repair one to four family homes which comes to 15K per building for the 20K who applied...
An Abrupt Change
Dr. James White, a leading climate scientist, runs through examples of how climate change might apply to individual home owners, "... a sea level rise of three feet in 30 years is a mortgage... if you buy a house on the beach and before you get that thing paid off it's worthless..."
Social Media
Without power, what is it? A flashlight in a window, a walkie-talkie, or a submersible marine radio? Meanwhile...
Queens County Supreme Court Justice Bernice Siegal has denied The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) and National Grid's (NG) summary judgment motion and motion for trial severances in Heeran v. Long Island Power Authority & National Grid.
August 4, 2014
VIDEO: A SURFER’S SATURDAY AT ROCKAWAY BEACH appeared in The New Yorker. Sky Dylan-Robbins heads out to the Rockaway Beach Surf Club from the East Village, coffee in hand at 5 AM.
February 20, 2014
Homeowners are renting elsewhere and on the hook for their mortgages. NY Mortgage holders who are not back in their homes do not have someone like NJ Senate President Steve Sweeney calling for a Sandy Bill of Rights. Why not?
February 20, 2013
According to an article in the WSJ on 20 Feb. 2013, as City Council candidates knocked on doors asking for votes, they were met with hundreds of vacant homes due to Sandy. There are 6,351 households and businesses that were affected in zipcode 11694. Of those households how many are currently habitable?
About
This project is not a collection of webisodes about, Bonnie and Scott — artists, musicians and small business owners — who bought their first home at the beach and were blindsided by a wave on October 31, 2012.
It started off that way — like many things related to Superstorm Sandy, this project morphed into something else.