01 Nov 2012
Glenda Moore, 39, knocked on her neighbor’s door for calling for help, but the neighbors have refused to help by stating that “they didn’t know her”, the heart breaking story was reported in British newspaper, the Daily Mail.
Glenda Moore battled all she had, but was unable to stop the ravaging waters sweeping her children, Connor, four, and Brandon, two, from her arms.
She lost her children when her Sports’ Utility Vehicle was swept by torrential rains near her Staten Island home.
The Mail reported that when she knocked on the door of her neighbor pleading desperately she was told “I don’t know you and I am not going to help you”. When she tried another neighbor the lights were switched off and no one had answered the door-bell.
Moore, a nurse by profession stood in the midst of floods for an estimated 12 hours without food or drink. When the dawn broke she was able to flag down a police car to raise the alarm.
The children have been missing for the past three days without any sign of hope. Her cousin Nancy Jean has told the newspaper that waiting for children is excruciating pain and killing her.
“She would like to have a closure”, Jean has stated.
Wedding Day: Glenda in the center
The tragic story unfolded on Monday when Moore with her two children was rushing to see her mother in Brooklyn. Her SUV, a Ford Explorer got stuck at Father Capodanno Boulevard in South Beach. When the waters were rising at alarming level, she had freed the boys from their seat belt and when trying to reach a higher ground, a massive wave has pounced on them sweeping the children away.
Her bravery made a sharp contrast to the uncaring neighbors’ who refused to assist, Miss Jean said.
Fighting back the tears, she went on: ‘I can’t believe the way she was treated by the people she went to for help.
‘The first person she knocked on, she begged them and said: “Please call 911″. They told her: “I don’t know you” and closed the door. She tried another door but they turned the lights off.
‘I can’t imagine what she was thinking then. She sat down for 12 hours and was just screaming. She was out of it. When it got to morning she went and found a police car and told him what happened.’
Miss Moore’s aunt, who declined to give her name, also told the New York Daily News: ‘They answered the door and said, “I don’t know you. I’m not going to help you”.
‘My sister’s like 5ft 3in, 130 pounds. She looks like a little girl. She’s going to come to you and you’re going to slam the door in her face and say, “I don’t know you, I can’t help you”?’
‘I saw them on Monday morning because I watch them when their mother goes to work.
‘They were really happy and I know Glenda had bought them some Halloween costumes and was going to take them out on Halloween.’
The aunt added: ‘They’re the most beautiful children ever. One’s a redhead, the other a dirty blonde.’
She was holding on to them, and the waves just kept coming and crashing and they were under. It went over their heads… She had them in her arms, and a wave came and swept them out of her arms. Then the wave just took the car and flipped it over. She was knocked down.
About 20 police officers from the NYPD Scuba Unit fanned out across the Staten Island marsh on the Boulevard in search of the boys.
So far, police have confirmed 14 storm-related fatalities on Staten Island, including a 13-year-old girl found in Tottenville, a father and son in South Beach, and a 28-year-old off-duty police officer.
Reached at her home in Brooklyn, New York, Glenda’s Sister Sophia, 42, said: ‘I’m sorry, I have no comment’.
Ms Moore told police her car stalled and she became stranded in the marsh when the left her home in search of higher ground as the storm worsened.
Around two dozen officers have been using canoes and police dogs, and scuba divers have been enlisted to search the area and have drained the marsh.
Officers from the NYPD Scuba Unit fanned out across the Staten Island marsh on the Boulevard in search of the boys. ‘Cops were in there hip deep trying to get them,’ a witness said.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2226332/Superstorm-Sandy-Mother-boys-swept-arms-left-screaming-street-12-hours.html#ixzz2AzcEd5nL
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