“Every morning I wake up coughing,” Patrick Zoda told NBC.

The Staten Island resident has reported that he’s been suffering a variety of lung related issues that he believes is a result of the storm damage to the home. The work on destroying walls and clearing debris causes a continual cloud of dust, insulation and mold in the building’s confined spaces.

Local doctors say the flu season combined with unsanitary conditions and bad water is bringing a second “perfect storm” to the region – a “perfect storm” of sickness.

Dr. Brahim Ardolic of Staten Island University Hospital said that it’s hard to say which factors are causing the problem but “very clearly, there is an increase in the number of people that are coming in.”

Dr. Ardolic says that people need to seek medical attention regardless of whether they believe they have enough time in their schedules to see a doctor.

He says that people have “been exposed to conditions that are horrifying” and they may be “sicker than you know.”