looking but still beautiful, the rockaways. >> josmar: this is rockaway park further down you call it far rockaway there's also rockaway beach. that's why they call it the rockaways and not just rockaway sometimes. >> anthony: right. >> josmar: there's a lot of different parts to it. >> anthony: josmar trujillo, a writer and local activist. >> anthony: you from queens originally? >> josmar: i was raised in the city but i lived in queens for most of my adult life now. >> anthony: and rockaway now? >> josmar: no i so i left here a little, about a year after hurricane sandy, 'cause the way sandy hit and the way that it kind of you know shook people out of where. you didn't want to put your family through that again, the risk of that. >> anthony: how bad did it get hit out here? >> josmar: this was like something out of a movie. >> anthony: hurricane sandy pounded the east coast in 2012 and many communities suffered, but the rockaways were hit with a particular ferocity. >> anthony: how was the response?