I was one of the people who stayed on LBI during Hurricane Sandy. My husband, my son and his girlfriend, and our dog Quincy stayed in our bayfront house in Holgate. My husband had brought home a generator from work on the Friday before, so that kind of made up our minds to stay. We knew it looked bad, but we have gone through so many storms over the years …. Well, we were stupid.
Monday morning we woke up to water coming over our dock and over the bulkhead into the streets.
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