Well, that was one of the more memorable Fourth of July weekends we’ve had on LBI. From lightning storms and softcore rappers to windfall business days, an eight-alarm fire and hurricane warnings, it will be one for the books (not to mention more mustaches than LBI has seen since 1976).
Let’s set the stage. Could things have been more dramatic? After a slow, albeit pleasant-weather June for waves and tourism, both came to rising crescendo at the height of the biggest weekend of the year for LBI.
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