Bodies of two boys found in aftermath of Hurricane Sandy - mother refused help during storm

I'm afraid Annie has missed the point. This is not about the suffering of the mother and the family. This story is about being purely negligent, without any provocation or due cause. Panic is only justifiable in dire situations. Glenda, as a nurse, was a step ahead of many because of her education and training to deal with crisis and emotions. She was not even in a crisis situation as she was in a safe home during the hurricane. She could have taken an alternate high ground route to the bridge - but drove straight to the water. Nothing was compelling her to do so. The fact that she took the action that she did awards her no more sympathy than if she drowned her children in the bathtub - and then said: "I don't know why I did it."

I sometime wonder about people, there can be so much good in the world, and then so many nasty people. I lost MY two sons, and there is not one day that I don't hurt, dont think about them and I grieve for this family for this woman who lost her two babies, My boys where 26 & 27, grown men and the pain never eases, she wil have empty arms where she held them boys every day, and as a nurse she will have more compassion in her than most of us, so DONT blooody well blame her, she probaly paniced as all of a sudden it was REAL and she decided to run rather than sitting it out. WE have all panicked at some point in her life. WE are doing fund raisers and sending people from Raleigh to New York to the Irish areas badly hit, and then I read something like this and it digusts me that anyone would say this about a grieving family.. Karma is a bitch and God knows but one day YOU may be in that nurses hand!! I wish so much for that faimly, for them to somehow find some peace , for thier hearts to be able to get past this awful pain and for them to find some kind of peace.

Unfortunately, this story as reported above is not accurate. Glenda Moore (a nurse) was at home with her two children in a non-threatening neighborhood a short distance from my home. She was actually on high ground. Her husband was working in Brooklyn at the time. The storm hit land in nearby New Jersey at approx. 5:50 pm, and the surges and flooding had already begun to destroy the beaches and low lying area surrounding Staten Island. Mrs. Moore lost power to her 3 story townhouse at that time - as did everyone else in the area - but at no time was threatened with flooding due to her location. She then put the children in the car and attempted to drive to Brooklyn where her family was. The bridge she needed to cross was scheduled to close due to the storm within the hour. Instead of taking a high ground route to the bridge (although even attempting to do that was pure insanity), she drove her normal route which was directly along the beach. The winds were gusting to 90 miles per hour, and the surges were insurmountable. Her car began to be tossed around - she took took the children out of the car and quickly lost them to a wave that swept them out of her grasp. It was after this that she began looking for help in the middle of the devestating storm. The horror of this story is that this mother (nurse) removed her children from the safety of their home - only to drive directly into Hurricane Sandy. We'll never know what made her do it - because there was no reason on God's earth why she should have felt the need to leave her home. This tragedy has left us ill with horror and beyond sad that a mother/nurse could have done something so utterly unconscionable.

The man who refused to help that poor woman should rot in hell, the sooner the better. I hope he was swept away and drowned, but, some s--t floats, I hope he doesn't.Peter.

I sort of agree w. realistic6...she was wrong and i feel that they should force evacuations because if someone is making a bad decision w. kids thats child endangerment. Those kids was helpless and this adult was suppose to be smart enough to evacuate when she knew the storm was coming...on the other hand she has suffered more that enough and its something she will have to live with so i dont feel like she should be charged although she was sooo wrong. That man is also wrong, i'm sure she told him i have kids and even if he couldnt see he could tell she was a woman by her voice. I do feel like something should happen to him, but i dont know what. Those adorable kids are gone now all because their mom didnt take this weather seriously. I pray she have strength to live with that and I pray for their dad as well.

There are at least 7 different versions of this story Nobody here there or anywhere has the the truth. Simple as that...go ahead and take each other apart on that. A mothers versions refuted by a the homeowners version. Picking sides over Two dead kids...Just makes it even sadder.

What a vile person you are, realistic6. Hateful and disgusting for such a stupid comment. You should be ashamed of yourself. As for this story, I'd like to know where it came from, because I've found no mention of her being refused help in any other media outlet anywhere else.

Honestly, how long did she know this storm was coming? I do not live anywhere close to there and I knew about it for almost a week. She should be brought up on charges of neglect at the very least. And if you were told that a wave swept away her children, would you go out in it? I would not, I would have called 911, but honestly, shame on this mother. Even if those boys knew how to swim, they stood no chance, and had no choice. Such a horrible way to die, and that their own mother put them in harms way? No not everyone is good, helful, or decent, but neither is this mother.

What can I say...not all people are good and helpful or even decent.