DEVASTATION: Destroyed Boardwalks, Burned Homes; State Officials See Them All
More than 30 members of the State General Assembly took a bus tour through Ocean County's barrier island towns.
The bed is still made. A wicker shelf stands in the corner of the room, its shelves covered with untouched knickknacks, shore memories. A framed print of a lighthouse and white-capped waves hangs on the wall, just a tad askew. The bedroom’s French doors open to the brisk air and an ocean view previously obstructed by the other half of the house that’s no longer there. The devastation unleashed on the New Jersey shore a month ago by Hurricane Sandy has been captured in countless images and videos, spread throughout the world through news reports and social media, but it’s access, being able to see it first hand, the burned out husks of an entire block of summer cottages, the toppled boardwalk, the homes torn away from their foundations and …
Paul Michaelis
3:11 pm on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
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