Hurricane Sandy---Still With us in Spirit.

Lean on Me by Bill Withers.

In the aftermath of the Hurricane Sandy, it’s very easy for many of us who didn’t suffer much or no losses at all to conclude that "the storm has come and gone". But in reality, the storm is still with us…in spirit. We only need to walk, at least briefly, in the shoes of the major victims to realize this fact.

Generally, too many people died and several properties were lost and damaged as a result of the storm.

There are horror stories emanating from various areas of casualties across the nation and largely from the East Coast. From New York to New Jersey, Delaware and other parts of the North East, the losses are still mounting.

In Queens, New York, about 50 families watched helplessly as their houses caught fire and burned to ashes. The fire hydrants had earlier been damaged by the raging storm. And the fire department guys stood by with not much water with which to work.

In a part of New Jersey, flood rapidly surrounded a neighborhood and those who tried to escape it got drowned. Fearing the same fate, a couple decided to hide on the top floor of their house. But the flood was so strong as to move upward quickly to catch up with the husband and wife. They drowned in the house.

Across the North East, several individuals rushed out of their houses in panic only to step on live lethal electrical wires that had been knocked down and hidden under debris.

According to a news report, a New York mother grabbed her two boys and fled their home as it filled with water, hoping to outrun Superstorm Sandy. But Glenda Moore and her SUV were no match for the epic storm. Moore's Ford Explorer stalled in the rising tide, and the rushing waters snatched 2-year-old Brandon and 4-year-old Connor from her arms as they tried to escape.

The youngsters' bodies were recovered from a marsh Thursday — the latest, most gut-wrenching blow in New York's Staten Island, an isolated city borough hard-hit by the storm and yet, residents say, largely forgotten by federal officials assessing damage of the monster storm that has killed more than 90 people in 10 states.

In New York, New Jersey and some other parts of the nation, millions are still homeless. Up till now, there is still no electricity and no gas. There are neither foods nor water for many of the hapless victims. Even basic essentials are no where available.

Hurricane Sandy has since been described as the third most terrible and deadly storm in the history of the United States.