Cars are submerged at the entrance to a parking garage in New York’s Financial District in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy. Cars and trucks that were flooded by Superstorm Sandy soon will make their way into the used car market, and that could mean trouble for buyers. After insurance companies declare flooded cars a total loss, they are sold to middlemen who fix and resell them.By BETH FOUHY and MARYCLAIRE DALE
Associated Press
STAFFORD TOWNSHIP, N.J. – Superstorm Sandy’s floodwaters drove Bob Mackie from his home on Long Beach Island, N.J., but nothing was going to stop him from voting Tuesday. The 72-year-old widower drove an hour each way to cast his ballot at a makeshift polling site for island residents, refusing to be disenfranchised by the devastation.
“A lot of people died for it, so we better exercise it,” Mackie said of the right to vote.
A week after Sandy’s ruinous march up the East Coast, thousands of displaced residents boarded shuttle buses and searched online for alternative polling places to cast their ballots. For millions who were still without power, cleaning mud out of their homes or living in shelters, voting represented both a return to normalcy and an act of defiance.