European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 13, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday december 13, 1992 a severe storms the stars and stripes b Page 7rain leaves . Awash in frustration. 1 by the new York times Armand Derose spent his Day in Huntington ., soaked to the Bone ruy\wrug8ll,n8 to lash Down 300 boats at the West Shore Marina so that they would not Bob off in the crazy Wavy seas like so much flotsam. Down by the water there was More water than anyone could really remember water in the sky water on the land water surging Over docks and piers. Virtually everyone around the new York City Region Friday battled with a Force of nature that was anything but Motherly. The wind and tide and Rains and their attendant miseries changed the landscape and the simplest patterns of the Day. In addition to the East coast rain the storm system dropped up to 3 feet of Snow in Western Pennsylvania and new York. But some areas seemed harder hit than others or the chaos More condensed. As water surged Over sea Walls up and Down the coast and left behind a surreal world in which boats slammed into houses and whitecaps rippled Over Inland roadways everyone struggled to Cope. At the world Trade Cen Tefon new York City the nerves of commuters and merchants were considerably More strained. With transportation throughout the downtown area tangled Herbert a. Heerwagen a retired 82-year-old lawyer from Maplewood n.j., said at noon that he had been waiting in the darkened building for two and a half hours. He said he would wait two hours More before moving on. Downstairs port authority police officers had to practically drag some crazy optimists away from darkened path tracks. Having ignored the Power failure and the Raspy announcements that loosely translated informed would be passengers that the system was in total chaos several dozen people stood about sat on the Steps or leaned up against the Walls waiting for new York City to snap out of it. Port authority police officer Michael Demello turned people away at the turnstiles for several hours and physically removed the stragglers. A you kind of expect Rod Steiger to come out and say a this is the Twilight zone a a Demello said confusing that actor with the deep voiced Rod scaling. A a they re real die hards. They Tell you they paid their $1 and they want their  in Brooklyn Sconey Island where water swirled Over the sidewalks seeped into basements and Rose sickeningly from there up toward living rooms and ground floor offices Denise Mathis an assistant teacher at the Coney Island Community Day care Center stepped off her bus at work at 7 45 . And into a knee deep surge. By the time she left the Day care Center just two hours later the Waters Rushing around the building were Waist High. Stepping out the front door she said was just like a crossing a  and what a River. As she struggled Down the Boardwalk trying to make her Way to the subway she watched As Waves flushed into the streets adding to the flooding. A one Day River running Down surf Avenue was a disgusting mix of sea water rain and untreated sewage. Brooklyn a Seaside sea Gate Section lived up to its name in a Way no resident appreciated As water whirled through the streets and into Peoples Homes. Cars sit jumbled in deep water in the Battery Park underpass in lower Manhattan on Friday. No one was seriously inured. A woman struggles to control her umbrella during fridays storm in new York City. The Pittsburgh suburb of Shaler township lies under 14 inches of Snow dumped by the storm system. A plane rests upside Down Friday at Bader Field in Atlantic City n.j., alter a night of High winds. Thousands flee raging Waters along new Jersey coast by the new York times Manasquan �? thousands of people were evacuated Friday a by police boats by National guard trucks and in one Case by surfboard a As a wind driven storm forced evacuations in an estimated 20 towns along the new Jersey coast. The severity of the nighttime assault which caused some of the worst Shore flooding in this Century earned gov. Jim Florio to mobilize the National guard and declare a state of emergency. The red Cross opened More than 30 shelters around the state and said it was housing 5,000 to 6,000 people forced from their Homes by flood Waters or Power failures a including residents of a Home for the elderly in Parsippany that had no heat. Shoppers who went to a supermarket on route 35 in Wall township found it closed and dark because of a Power failure. They also saw something else dozens of people peered helplessly out at them through the stores darkened windows a shoppers who were trapped when the electric doors lost Power. They were trapped for about half an hour. In Monmouth Beach the craziness a ice Cream freezers boating Down the aisles of mayor Louis Sodano a store a stood Side to Side with the Heartbreak in stories traded at the Borough Hall by people who awoke to one world and saw the Day end in another one. William Franks House on Monmouth Parkway burned to the ground. A Blaze that might have been controlled burned on and on As the boroughs fire department watched in dismay held Back by a seven foot flood. A we did our Best a said Mark Russo the boroughs dejected fire chief. The water and the fire won