After Sandy: The Islanders, part 3
by Eric San Juan [Editor's note: Author and sometime PW contributor Eric San Juan is filing post-Sandy dispatches from the Jersey shore throughout the month of January. This week continues the tale of island resident Bob Kuhne.] * * * Days were spent ripping apart a house to prevent the insidious damage that could be done by mold. Early evenings eating with...
Continue ReadingAfter Sandy: The Islanders, part 2
by Eric San Juan [Editor's note: Author and sometime PW contributor Eric San Juan is filing post-Sandy dispatches from the Jersey shore throughout the month of January.] * * * The news the day after the storm sounded good for Bob Kuhne and his family, longtime residents of the tiny barrier island community of Lavallette. Their hometown had flooded, yes, but...
Continue ReadingAfter Sandy: The Islanders, part 1
by Eric San Juan [Editor's note: Author and sometime PW contributor Eric San Juan is filing post-Sandy dispatches from the Jersey shore daily through January.] * * * More than a month after Hurricane Sandy flooded his Lavallette, N.J., home, Bob Kuhne is still cleaning up the mess. The cleanup is just the start; after that will come the challenge of getting...
Continue ReadingAfter Sandy: Recalling the Storm, part 3
by Eric San Juan [Editor's note: Author and sometime PW contributor Eric San Juan is filing post-Sandy dispatches from the Jersey shore daily through January.] * * * I’ve seen tides rise and fall. I’ve seen major storms push huge amounts of rain into our waterway, elevating water levels by two or three feet. But this I had never seen before. Once Sandy’s...
Continue ReadingAfter Sandy: Recalling the Storm, part 2
by Eric San Juan [Editor's note: Author and sometime PW contributor Eric San Juan is filing post-Sandy dispatches from the Jersey shore daily through January. The series kicked off with a feature story in PW's print edition on Jan. 2.] * * * The storm experience started fine. After the modest drenching we got from Hurricane Irene, my wife, Natalie, and I had...
Continue ReadingAfter Sandy: Recalling the Storm, Part 1
by Eric San Juan [Editor's note: Author and sometime PW contributor Eric San Juan is filing post-Sandy dispatches from the Jersey shore daily through January. The series kicked off with a feature story in PW's print edition on Jan. 2.] * * * My family and I live in Brick, N.J., a coastal community with some 53 miles of waterfront property. Our modest home is...
Continue ReadingAfter Sandy: The daily blog from the Jersey shore begins
by Eric San Juan [Editor's note: Author and sometime PW contributor Eric San Juan is filing post-Sandy dispatches from the Jersey shore daily through January. The series kicked off with a feature story in PW's print edition on Jan. 2.] * * * For most at the Jersey shore, life has returned to something vaguely resembling routine following the wrath of “superstorm”...
Continue ReadingUnion Beach, NJ After Hurricane Sandy: How to Help
Last week when Hurricane Sandy hit, my social networks lit up with messages about my little hometown of Union Beach, NJ. Less than two square miles, the town sits on a peninsula that juts out into the Raritan Bay. It was destroyed in the hurricane. According to local emergency management officials, a wall of water surged out of the bay and punched at least 100...
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