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"I do not need this now 'New Yorkers still struggling to recover sand are forced to endure another storm

Rockaways Most residents woke up at home on Saturday morning surrounded by snow. Brett Scudder, however, began his day miles away in the Bronx.

He is 39 years old, one of thousands of New Yorkers are still displaced by Superstorm sand, the last major storm to hit the East Coast. For survivors of sand like him, blizzard Friday night brought new challenges for a winter that has been defined by the struggle.

"I do not need it now," he told the Guardian, Scudder, Friday evening, during a violent storm struck the East Coast with high winds and snow powder.

The snowstorm, known as "Nemo" by the Weather Channel, a private power more than 600,000 homes across the Northeast and fell as much as 3 feet of snow in New England. In the Rockaways, trucks equipped with plows joined residents pushing snow on sidewalks in front of buildings housing public Saturday morning. On the beach, more than a dozen young surfers braved the cold water. A handful of them had spent the night in a van on the coast.

"It's fun," said Brooklyn resident Reid Olmstead, noting that the cap waves were 8 feet.

for displaced residents of Rockaway Brett Scudder, the obstacles presented by the storm on Friday were not visible to the naked eye. Like many others in the city, Scudder has been homeless since the storm in October.

Rockaway Peninsula, which is normally less than a mile wide in some places and is divided largely along racial and economic lines. The thin strip of land was devastated by Sandy. Eleven people were killed. Entire neighborhoods to large fires burned to the ground. In total, two-thirds of Rockaway Parkway, a popular summer attraction, was destroyed. And a large part of the cleaning approach initially focused on lower Manhattan residents said they felt abandoned by the city.

considerable damage during the construction storm made it too dangerous to ever come back for good, says Scudder.

"We can not live in this house," he said. "He is doomed. Is not only in a state space, especially when you have small children. "

nine children - 11, 13 and 15 - live with their mother. They have not been able to return home in the Rockaways is. When the city issued its mandatory evacuation order on October 29 moved to a school in Queens that was created as a refuge. For the next four weeks in the locker room shower and sleep on beds. The family then moved into a motel Emergency Federal Emergency Management Agency assistance.

the end of January, at least 3,500 New Yorkers living in similar circumstances. For many families in recent months in the Rockaways were particularly severe. Scudder believes that the storm will create more problems.

"It is simple figures temperatures at this time, and people live in homes where they are not able or are not able to heat properly," he said. " Most people do not have furniture in their homes. "re Sleeping on the ground."

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