Halloween Is The Scariest Of All - 1435 Words

As Halloween comes and goes once again as it always does, when all of the candy is thrown out, the costumes are put in storage and parties dissipate, we laugh and reminisce about the lively memories the holiday brought. However, for people who lived in the northeast in 2012, instead of packing our costumes we packed our clothes to leave our homes indefinitely, instead of throwing out our candy we threw out dated pictures, toys, and sentiments ruined by flooding and winds, and rather then celebrating with friends we held our loved ones close, because we didn’t know what the future had in store for us. Ironically, Halloween of 2012 was the scariest of all because it brought a real threat, a raging storm that would impact and hurt the lives of so many named Superstorm Sandy. No one believed the storm would be as atrocious as it was, after all, growing up near the shore when someone says hurricane you think of light rain and maybe some wind. 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