The Superstorm Sandy disaster and recovery on Long Beach Island, as chronicled for seven months by the staff of The SandPaper. Part 6.

By the time November was over, FEMA had processed 144,069 claims for emergency housing assistance in New Jersey; one third, more than 49,000, came from Ocean County. FEMA disbursed $133 million for displaced Ocean County residents; most was for residents north of LBI but it also went to thousands of year-round residents across the bay in Beach Haven West,…