Eyewitness accounts of Sandy's destruction

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE)--Millions are still without power and left with little or no way to communicate after Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast Monday and into Tuesday.  A couple people gave their eyewitness descriptions to two very different effects of the storm.

Natalie Jones is a former traffic reporter for WANE-TV and lives in Queens, New York.  She said as the storm hit Monday night, she could hear debris flying against her house.  Jones quickly boarded up her window so it wouldn't break.

She said trees have fallen on almost every surrounding road near her block in the aftermath of the "truly scary" storm.

"Once the storms started coming in and the storms were picking up, it sounded so much worse than Irene," Jones said.  "I've been through a lot of snowstorms and stuff but when they say a tornado goes by, it sounds like a freight train...this sounded like a freight train for about six hours."

Jones is one of the lucky ones in Queens who still has electricity.  She said many people are looking out for each other post-Sandy, but there's still a sense of feeling trapped.

"Our subway systems are down.  They're going to be down for four or five days," Jones said.  "We're not in a flood zone like I said but we feel pretty trapped because we have no mass transit, we don't own a car, and normally we don't need a car here."

Terry Hayes lives in Elkins, West Virginia.  Tuesday morning, he said he had more than a foot of snow and it was still coming down.  Several roads around him are closed and many are out of power, which means no heat.

"The main thing is downed tree limbs.  You can hear them.  It sounds like a distant gunfire where a big limb will crack and fall off," Hayes said.  "Sometimes they land on power lines.  There are power lines down all kinds of places.  Sometimes they land on houses, sometimes they land on cars.  My wife and I were walking out this morning and we were saying, 'I hope they don’t land on us.'"

Hayes continued, "I don’t think I have seen it worse than this and I’ve been here 35 years.  This is probably as bad as I’ve ever seen it."