Rising above the tide: 5 years since Sandy

Turn the clock back five years and you would find thousands of homeowners along the shoreline of Long Island Sound with sludge on their floors, soggy wallboard and a confused morass of paperwork and agencies to deal with. “It was like a river of muck in here,” said Milford resident Bibi Schmid, recalling what her home was like in the days after Superstorm Sandy. “When I first walked in, I had my flip-flops on and they just stuck to the floor. And two years later, it was really moldy.” Drive down many of the Long Island Sound shoreline streets in Fairfield and New Haven counties in 2017 and you’ll see what amounts to an urban cityscape that wasn’t there before Sandy hit five years ago this weekend.

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