WHERE HAVE ALL THE LOCALS GONE?: It’s hard to imagine Long Beach Island someday filling a chapter in a book called, “Ghost Towns of the Jersey Shore.” But, in a weird way, we’re moving toward it – by moving away from it. I’ll explain.

Sardonically celebrating the five-year Wooden Anniversary of S.S. Sandy, one of the trickledown aftereffects of the sucker-punching storm might be called the trickle-away response here on Long Beach Island.