The photograph of Jordan Aughenbaugh barefoot and shirtless in his bathing suit on Ship Bottom’s 22nd Street beach the afternoon of Jan. 29 during the blizzard was not the product of a dare. Earlier in the day, Aughenbaugh, 26, saw a photo of a friend on social media in which the friend was sitting on the beach in a beach chair, shirtless, during the storm. That got him thinking.
“He couldn’t be chilling without a lifeguard,” Aughenbaugh said Monday afternoon, days after the storm dumped over a foot of snow on LBI, specifically 14.3 inches in the…
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