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Debris outside a building in Long Island, where NEMA has assessed 35 of 317 homes so far as being uninhabitable, while 117 have been classed as substantially damaged. Photo: Ricardo Wells/Tribune Staff

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One in ten long island homes assessed so far are ‘completely destroyed’

MORE than one tenth of the homes assessed by teams dispatched by the National Emergency Management Agency in Long Island have been rendered “completely destroyed” in the wake of Hurricane Joaquin.

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