Repost i made to Stormrider on my Philly thread: i was a beach bum as a youth, S.A.(forgive me?(VBG:)--so this rocks my memory banks to the core.
i used to love going to Long Beach State Park and its neighbor Seaside Heights for Boardwalk.
Today there is NO SeaSide Heights and Long Island Beach with catastrophic damage.
In March 1962 the worst storm ever to hit New Jersey before Sandy was a NorEaster--the entire Atlantic City Boardwlk was annihilated, Ocean City NJ lost its boardwalk and its entire beach(it took years and many many millions of dollars to dredge and pump in new sand--it took the New Jersey Shore many years to recover, and now this--the entire state flooded, Seaside Heights and Bayhead/Matoloking(The private playground of The Old Money of the U.S.A, with naught but multimilliondollar homes--Sandy was not impressed with wealth) are gone--every home in Seaside Heights now be structurally unhabitable. But LUCY!(She's a GIANT Elephant-and beloved and where i worked as a Beach Boy in Margate,N.J.) survived 1962 and Sandy! She is now One Hundred and 30 years old(now a national historic site. O yes, the apartment building where me and buddies lived that was about 100 yards from Lucy, in 1962, that seaside apartment building it literally vanished--it was a just sand in 1962.
And now this--this picture has become iconic to get message across what happened to New Jersey.
O yes Hampton Beach(with Neat Boardwalk!), N.H(yes, New Hampshire!)., where my parents would spend one night twice a year on trips to Maine, has been annihilated.
This Photo says it all: The Famous Roller Coaster at SeaSide Heights--and that is now 100 feet out to sea from where it once was---last picture stands for over a million people that had the unthinkable happen--captures how it felt. The man in photo at his back is what is left of his home. Photo taken in Brick,N.J.
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Another picture SeaSide Heights
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