HOBOKEN, N.J. -- Frank Quiroz and Idania Roman slogged through a waist-high mix of Hudson River water, sewage and gasoline Wednesday afternoon, hoisting bags full of tennis shoes and dry clothes on a three-mile trek to find family in Jersey City.
The pair had been waiting since Tuesday for the waters to recede, but after extinguishing an electrical fire in their basement and losing all communication with the outside world, they said they couldn’t wait any longer to escape.
“Last year for Irene, they were much more worried than this time,” Roman said of the warnings coming from government officials in Hoboken. “The warnings basically sucked.”
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