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Hurricane Landfall: Food Trucks and Salvadorian Pupusas

hurricane landfall: Another 760,000 were forced from their homes, according to Huffington Post Canada. A flooded Brooklyn Battery park Tunnel Oct. 30, 2012 as New Yorkers clean up the morning after Hurricane Sandy's landfall. In the weeks that followed, her family went without power or heat. Photo Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images Churches provided blankets for cold nights while Lizbeth's family ate hot dogs and Salvadorian pupusas donated by food trucks. Lizbeth turned it down, ashamed at needing help. Still without power at home, she returned to school and a teacher offered her a warm shower in the school's basement. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.