Homecrest, Brooklyn wasn’t hit as hard by Hurricane Sandy as some of the areas around it. Homecrest’s border closest to the water coincided with where the flood waters stopped. As you traveled from this Avenue X border towards the Emmons Avenue Canal, which caused most of the flooding in the area, the waters got higher and higher.
The following video shows the water from the Emmons Avenue Canal beginning to rise. This footage was shot before Sandy hit land. The water continued to rise after this point.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWGNuXum4PI
Power outages in Homecrest were minimal, according to my friends who live in different parts of the neighborhood, and considering that no reports indicated otherwise. Power was lost for only several hours, and stop lights on the Ocean Parkway/Avenue U intersection were not working properly. The following is a post that appeared on a liveblog on www.brooklynpaper.com on October 30th, 2012, after Sandy had done most of its damage.
“5:26 pm: Traffic lights across Southern Brooklyn are on the fritz. Things are particularly dicey at the intersection of Ocean Parkway and Avenue U where stoplights not operating. Drivers heading across town should avoid Avenue U, and take Avenue T instead.
There are multiple trees down on Van Sicklen Street, at Gravesend Neck Road and between Avenues U and T.”
That pretty much covers how much damage Homecrest sustained.
No big looting incidents were reported in Homecrest. The biggest looting that was covered happened in Coney Island after Sandy, where people actually carried LCD televisions out of a Rent-A-Center in broad daylight, and thousands of dollars of liquor was stolen off shelves in late morning of October 30th, 2012.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/looters-target-coney-island-sandy-article-1.1195080
Additional sources used:
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/35/44/all_hurricanesandyliveblogday2_2012_11_02_bk.html
