STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Exactly 13 years after Hurricane Sandy devastated South Beach, residents of Doty Avenue faced significant flooding once again, with approximately 3 feet of water submerging the street during Thursday’s storm .

“We’ve had about 3 feet of water on the block. It’s starting to go down now,” resident John Kalnberg told the Advance/SILive.com on Thursday night. “But you know, this block had 17 feet of water during Sandy. Today is the anniversary — 13 years later — and the block flooded again. The cars were underwater.”

Kalnberg, 67, who has lived on the block for 40 years, said his house was completely destroyed during Sandy and had to be rebuilt from the ground up.

“My house was underwater up to the second floor, so they had to knock it down and rebuild it,” he explai

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