During the Hurricane, school was closed, but many students were still living on campus. We are relieved that they did not feel too many of Sandy’s effects. DLIS caught up with our office assistant, Isabelle Friend, to hear an undergraduate’s experience.
Imagine flipping through the television channels and channel after channel is wrought with news broadcasters informing the general public of the state of emergency we are all in. Hurricane Sandy has hit the whole East Coast and power lines are down, trees are ferociously attacking houses and people are being evacuated from their homes. But as I look out my dorm room window all I can think is that this is no hurricane, they must be exaggerating. It’s only a normal thunderstorm; maybe the wind is a little bit stronger. This is one weak hurricane if I have ever seen one.
The on-campus residents of St. John’s University were sitting pretty in the midst of Sandy. We had electricity, hot running water, and plenty of food. Each day around five we would all anxiously await the text, phone call and email informing us that school had been canceled once again.
Everything inside the gates of St. John’s seemed the same as it always had, but once you stepped outside the gates you definitely weren’t in Kansas anymore. Trees were lying on their sides, streets were closed off and there were barely any people out. For all those who were affected by Hurricane Sandy we realize and feel for all those that lost everything but fortunately we did not experienced Hurricane Sandy in the same way.
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