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Hundreds of Long Islanders are opening their wallets to help neighbors whose lives have been devastated by the damage wrought by the thousand-year storm that swept across Long Island late Sunday and early Monday.
Fundraisers have been initiated for at least 18 families and businesses hit hard this week by a weather system that dumped more than nine inches of rain on North Shore communities, from Smithtown to Rocky Point.
More than $75,000 has been raised to help the storm victims, including nearly $20,000 for Theatre Three in Port Jefferson. Parts of the theater were under as much as five feet of water, causing extensive damage to one of the stages, the café, and costume and prop storage areas.
More than $6,000 has been raised for the couple that lost their Stony Brook home when a dam and road at Mill Pond in Stony Brook’s Avalon Nature Preserve collapsed, unleashing huge amounts of water from a duck pond into Stony Brook Harbor.
Ronnie and Hui Borgese are lucky to be alive. The couple and their pets managed to escape their home as some of the home partially collapsed due to the raging waters.
The Borgeses exchanged wedding vows on the property — now condemned — just four weeks ago. Their property was located across the pond from the historic Stony Brook Grist Mill, which survived the storm.
Below are some of the GoFundMe efforts established so far on behalf of Long Islanders trying to recover from the storm. Click on the hyperlinks to read more about each one.
Theater Three in Port Jefferson
Stony Brook newlyweds lose home
Stony Brook nurse’s home destroyed
Cancer patient’s apartment uninhabitable
Rocky Point electrician escapes with a bag of clothes and two pairs of shoes
Couple and their guide dog
Flood devastation for E. Setauket family
A total loss in Smithtown
St. James: Basement apartments destroyed
Rocky Point basement: 8 feet deep in water
Storm creates sinkholes, pool wrecked
Sound Beach: Apartment, furniture destroyed
Single mom without flood insurance
Retired couple must rebuild
Young Middle Island couple had just moved in
Top image: Courtesy photo (GoFundMe)
