Student says she didn't realise hurricane would be this serious
Lucy Brocklehurst, a student from Leicester High School for Girls said that listening to all the sirens outside, was the "scariest part" of their ordeal.
Lucy and other students from the school were unable to return home on their flight from Washington due to the destruction from Hurricane Sandy.
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Hurricane Sandy downgraded to Post Tropical Cyclone
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Hurricane Sandy diary: UK pupils barricaded in hotel
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