Bence in the States: 10.29 - 11.04

We survived Sandy! Thanks for everyone who was worried about me and us here in Hamden, Connecticut.
This was the biggest happening in this week and the second biggest storm in the history of the United States.
We were lucky, we haven't got any damage except we lost power for 26 hours.

But others were not that lucky...
Here is Sandy by the numbers:

Sandy by pictures:

Flooded homes in Tuckerton, N.J., on Oct. 30 after Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the southern New Jersey coastline on Oct. 29. (US Coast Guard via AFP/Getty Images)

US route 30, the White Horse Pike, one of the majow three apporaches to Atlantic City, N.J., is covered with water from Absecon Bay in the view looking west, during the approach of Hurricane Sandy on Oct. 29. Hurridayn Sandy began battering the US East Coast on Monday with fierce winds and driving rain, as the monster storm shut down transportation, shuttered businesses and sent thousand scrambling for higher ground hours before the worst was due to strike. (Tom Mihalik/Reuters) - This is the route where we went to Atlantic City two weeks ago...pretty bad.

Boats cluste together at a marina in Brant Beach, on Long Beach Island of the New Jersey shore a day after superstorm Sandy blew across the New Jersey barried islands on Oct. 29. (Clem Murray/Philadelphia Inquirer via Associated Press)

The darkened skyline of Manhattan is seen on Oct. 30. one day after Hurricane Sandy hit. Life ground to a virtual halt in parts of southern Manhattan still without power, but many New Yorkers seemes to be taking the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy in stride. (Mehdi Taamallah/AFP/Getty Images)

Only a few bread items remain on the shelves at the Waldaums grocery store as Hurricane Sandy approaches on Oct. 28 in Long Beach, N.Y. (Mike Stobe/Getty Images) - In Hamden it looked just like this.

Brian Hajeski (41) of Brick, N.J., reacts as he looks at debris of a home that washed up on the Mantoloking Bridge the morning after superstorm Sandy rolled through on Oct. 29. in Matoloking, N.J. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (Associated Press Photo/Julio Cortez)

Broadcast that we did not listen to due to poweroutage

Our way of entertainment and broadcasting during Sandy - no power, no internet, no heating, no hot water

Sandy basically smashed the coastline of CT away, destroyed East Haven the most. QU was closed for 6 days and out of power for 5 days. Many people are without power even after a week:

This is only one of the two utility company's outage list.

Jeffrey is still out of power for a week now but the army is there and working:

10/4/12 - CT 6 days after Sandy hit land

I went to work on Monday morning when nobody did, except one of the boss, because I did not know that the office is going to be closed for two days. Great...So then I went home and started drawing a picture (I'll show you a bit later) then Andris came home and we discussed that we will get together and drink something during enjoying Sandy. Cool. But it turned to not fun. At 17:50 we lost power. What does that mean? No heating, no hot water, no lights of course, your fridge is melting down and basically you can do nothing, but sitting in a dark room waiting to be punished by the mother nature. It is definitely not fun. Around 10PM i went to bed and got up around 7:26AM, checked out my car and what has happened and I had to disappoint. Nothing happened...On Tuesday I was enjoying some great books and continued drawing the picture. As the night came and it was getting dark I called Xiao because she had power whether I could take a shower and use internet for a bit, even to make some warm food. I ended up in our Chinese friend's house on Whitney half an hour later at 18:10. As I arrived and took a shower we have been notified that power is back in Whitney Village:):) I brought some sausages that I baked and my friends invited me to stay for a authentic Chinese dinner. OMG, i simply cannot describe that culinary experience I had there. Thank you, guys!

Get back to the graphics I drew. Here are the flow of it without commentary: