The Night the Storm Hit

A Rockaway fisherman tells how it went down during Sandy

“Hurricane Sandy Aftermath — Howard Beach — 10/30/2012” by Pam_Andrade is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/?ref=openverse.

Ten years ago, just after Hurricane Sandy hit the New York Bight, a Rockaway fisherman named Frank Culleton relayed this story to me in the lobby of the hotel where he’d been evaculated.

When the morning tide came in you could tell it was going to be a big one. I live in Arverne, a neighborhood in the…