Fighting Irish spirit emerges as the Rockaways stay strong and united after Hurricane Sandy

Rockaway's locals show strength in face of Sandy

Briege Griebel from Co. Tyrone was doling out homemade soup under the Gibbons tent.  She’s been in the U.S. for more than 40 years and has never seen anything like the horror inflicted by the hurricane.

“It’s shocking,” she says. “I’m going to keep volunteering and going to different places until there is no more need to do so.”

Gibbons agrees.  “That’s what we’ve got to do.  This is unreal. It’s not the Rockaways that I remember visiting while I was growing up.”

That’s certainly the case now, but after spending a few hours walking the streets along Rockaway Park Boulevard, with Irish flags flying high from so many homes, the Rockaways will rebuild. Of that there is no doubt.

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