When I started in FEMA Corps, I had no idea how much history we would be a part of. Class 19 was not only the inaugural class, but we would also respond to the second costliest hurricane in US History. It's been a year, and I can still remember the hundreds of people in line at DRC #9 in the Rockaway's, what Breezy Point looked like a few days after the storm, and the amazing strength and resilience of the East Coast. Until I finished the program, I didn't realize the impact Hurricane Sandy had on me. In the weeks leading up to Sandy, my team and I were working at the Region IV Headquarters in Atlanta. We were working in different departments on a few different projects.  Some were locating resources and creating spreadsheets, some were helping with the Great Southeast Shakeout, and others were sorting through old disaster documents and filing them accordingly. We had settled into a normal everyday job, unaware that we were about to respond to one of the biggest Hurricanes of our time.  As Sandy neared, we were sent to the Emergency Management Institute in Maryland to wait out the storm and await deployment. We sat with the rest of the country and watched the devastation unfolding on the news and ready to get out to help.