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Monday, April 29, 2013

Hurricane Sandy

Storm Chronicles Part 7 - Six Months Out And Still Counting

Many storm victims have become Sandy zombies

They are easy to spot. They don't smile much. They look tired. They are tired. They are numb. They are the Sandy zombies. They are fried emotionally and physically from half a year of battling to go home, if they still have a home to go to. I am a Sandy zombie. Is it possible it's been half a year since that horrific day and night when Superstorm Sandy blasted the Jersey Shore and changed some lives forever? Six months since we left our Bayville home with three terrified cats and made our way to family in Toms River? Six months since we've been living in a basement? We knew Sandy was going to be bad, even when we evacuated at noon on Oct. 29. Trees were already toppling in Pine Beach, taking down power lines. But we didn't know then we …

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9:37 am on Saturday, May 4, 2013

Mitigation and 'Substantial damage' are two different animals in the aggregate sum. Thus, if you had $100,000 in damages, I would think that you would add elevation on top of that when applying for the CDBG.   more ›

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Hurricane Sandy

Good Luck Point, Glen Cove Still Scenes Of Devastation Nearly Three Weeks After Hurricane

'Only the crazy people stayed,' one resident says

  There's a reason Berkeley Township police officers are still stationed at checkpoints into the Good Luck Point and Glen Cove sections of Bayville. Almost three weeks after Hurricane Sandy roared onto the Jersey coast, the two bayfront areas are still scenes of devastation. A blackened tree stands like a sentry next to a Good Luck Drive home that burned to the ground during the storm. Firefighters were unable to reach it. The power has been cut to most homes in Good Luck Point. Many are tagged with neon-red "unsafe structure" signs on their doors. Houses sit in places they don't belong, washed off their foundations. Overturned boats are everywhere. Some sit in the tidal marshes off Bayview Avenue, blown far from where they were once …

foggyworld

6:55 pm on Sunday, November 25, 2012

The town did not clean up Good Luck Point. The lucky enough to still have garbage cans, got them picked up & dumped once a week. The dumpsters I have seen out here have all been rented by an owner or his or her representative to get the damn ball rolling. We finally did get some volunteer help from the Methodist Church in Lacey which also donated food, cleaning supplies and water to drink. The …   more ›

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