“If it was during the day, we would have seen it coming,” marveled the owner of one of 35 damaged houses in the High Bar Harbor section of Long Beach Township the morning after an EF2 tornado skipped through the bayside area shortly before 9:30 p.m. July 29.

Homeowner Ken Kuiken was among neighbors stepping outside to check on each other after the next-door house at 1 Antioch was left with part of its roof torn off and two boats upside-down in the yard.