Storm was cruel to elderly who refused to evacuate

Denise Talton, 49, retrieves the family's old Bible from the rubble left in her mother's home on Bayview Avenue, in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, in Coney Island, N.Y. "In all my life growing up here we never had a catastrophe like this," said Talon, who wept when she recalled how she discovered her elderly aunt, Lorraine Gore, 91, drowned last night in her home nearby.