Until a beast known as Superstorm Sandy arrived on Oct. 29, 2012, the Jersey Shore hadn’t experienced a storm like the nor’easter that sprung up out of nowhere, then stalled off the coast for three days during the first week of March 1962.
Long Beach Island was decimated – hundreds of homes lost, colossal erosion, flooding beyond belief, seven people drowned and many lives were disrupted for weeks and months, even years. But that was on one side of the bay.
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