<div>Hurricane Sandy, five years later: 'No one was ready for what happened after'</div>

Survivors of the 2012 storm remain haunted. As hurricanes continue to batter the US, many say plans to mitigate climate change have not gone far enough: ‘People need to open their eyes’Hurricane Sandy still assails the thoughts of Annie Willis, haunting her with its onrushing black water and the harrowing sound of shattering windows. The storm mauled a cherished home that Willis and her family are still unable to return to, five years since it ravaged New York City.“I’d seen nothing like it in my life, the water was surging above the cars. It was like an out of body experience,” Willis, now a 20-year-old student, said. She lived with her mother, brother and dog in far Rockaway, part of a jawbone-like peninsula that juts out near JFK airport in Queens. The water was surging above the cars. It was like an out of body experience Related: It's a fact: climate change made Hurricane Harvey more deadly | Michael E Mann Irene put these people back on their heels and Sandy was the knockout punch. It was like ‘boom, we are out’People here love the ocean. This is where they want to stay. But at some point we will be underwaterThings haven’t been perfect but we are moving as fast as we can. We will be at this the rest of our lives Related: Climate change will likely wreck their livelihoods – but they still don't buy the science Continue reading...