Sandbagging was a strategy that paid off for some business owners who invested the muscle into placing them between the door and impending floodwaters last Friday. Beach Haven was the site of several shops where sandbags sopped up all or all but about an inch of the rising tide on Bay Avenue Saturday. The reports came in on social media or in conversation with SandPaper writers.
How to Live, which is expanding its Beach Haven store, was kept “safe” by sandbags, said its report.
Subscribe to keep reading
This story is from our archive. Get your SandPaper Annual Pass for access to our digital archive, plus everything else a pass includes. Details below.
Annual Pass — $18 Details
365-day access to:
- The complete SandPaper digital archive (stories date back to 2012).
- Full photo galleries from our photographers.
- The entire catalog of SandPaper games, puzzles and quizzes.
How it works
- Enter your email below and click to pay the one-time $18. Card details are entered on Stripe’s secure page.
- You’re in straight away — no password to create, and nothing to set up or manage.
- You stay signed in. If you’re ever signed out, or you read on a new phone or computer, we’ll email you a code to get you back in.
- Never auto-renews. Your pass is good for one year. We will email you when it expires so you can renew if you’d like.
See our site policies for more information.
Already a subscriber? We’ll email a code to get you back in.
