NYC home that famously battled back from Sandy faces another once-in-a-lifetime disaster

A Staten Island home that battled back from Hurricane Sandy to “save Christmas” — winning a visit from then-President Obama — is again partly buried in debris thanks to another once-in-a-lifetime disaster.Debra Ingenito, the 61-year-old widow who lives in the New Dorp Beach home with her two sons and several pets, said she was watching television in her living room during the early afternoon of Feb.11 when she heard a tremendous boom.“It really did sound like something exploded,” Ingenito told The Post.Ingenito — who had already rebuilt her family’s home after Sandy — ran outside with one of her sons.

The pair was shocked by the sight that greeted them.“The house next door split in half, so half went on top of the opposite-side neighbor’s car, and the other was up against our house,” she said.The crushing weight did a number on Ingenito’s Topping Street home, damaging several rooms including her kitchen on the first floor, partly wrecking her second floor, pancaking a plastic fence, cracking her chimney flue and blocking at least one exterior door.“There’s all stress cracks from the impact,” she said of her home.

“It’s really messed up.… I sit here, and when the wind starts going, I hear the creaks and cracks.”It’s the second time an extraordinary disaster has befallen the unfortunate Staten Islander, whose house was battered and flooded by Superstorm Sandy in November 2012.

Ingenito’s late husband, Joeseph, made headlines at the time for decorating a 7-foot tree outside their house for Chrismas — all that remained of the mammoth blue spruce that once towered over the family’s yard before Sandy’s tremendous winds tore it down.Joe decorated the tree with whatever survived the storm surge, including paper coffee cups, surgical masks, a worker’s glove, safety goggles, a random hat and a Hannah Montana bag.“I just wanted to help the neighborhood keep its spirits up,” he said.

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