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Sep 05, 2013 | Mary Frances Schjonberg

Episcopalians Continue to Offer Aid in Sandy Recovery

[Episcopal News Service] If you do not live in the Northeast or Mid-Atlantic of the United States, Hurricane Sandy, which devastated those states nearly 10 months ago, may be a distant memory. That is not the case for many who live in those areas, however, and Episcopalians continue to help during what is only the beginning of a multi-year recovery process.

 

While national news might show scenes of rebuilding and states are spending millions of dollars to assure traditional summer visitors that, in the words of New Jersey’s campaign, “we’re stronger than the storm,” life in parts of New Jersey, New York and Maryland is far from normal. The Oct. 29, 2012 storm caused an estimated $65.7 billion in damage, including destroying or damaging 650,000 homes, according to a recent federal report.

 

However, Episcopalians who wanted to help out right after the storm were often told there was no work for them to do.

 

“Folks early on thought that we’d be doing massive rebuilding at this point and there were going to be all kinds of mission opportunities here,” Keith Adams, Diocese of New Jersey disaster recovery coordinator, told Episcopal News Service during a recent interview.

 

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