Dec 1992 storm....water reached just across the intersection of Arnold and St. Louis in PPB. Was closest we ever saw water come to OFC #1. Oct 2012 storm...Sandy....2 1/2 feet of water inside OFC #1. I think the 92 storm caught more people by surprise.

I watched the water come up and wondered if it would ever stop. Now after Sandy destroyed our home, I know that '92' was a piece of cake!

I remember walking across Broadway thigh high in water, and then watching the water come up through the floorboards of my home finally flooding my house with a foot of water....20 yrs later.....4 ft of water..(oh how I long for the old days)

I remember getting up for work in Sea Bright around 7, looking out the window, and thinking "Whoa! Guess I will be late for work this morning, gotta wait for the flood to go down. It's pretty high. Wonder what time high tide is?" So I called the PD where my dad and sister worked and the dispatcher told me high tide wasn't for 3 more hours. That's when I knew my car was going to be lost and the house was going to get water. So I turned off the gas, moved what I could, got the dogs and went to the the second floor. I lived with my parents who happened to be away for the week, so it was just me and the dogs. I basically tried to keep warm and spent my time writing out my Christmas cards until I could get out. I remember Pat Battle from NBC news coming to town to do a report and we couldn't believe how bad it was! Well, Sandy was 3x as bad! and the water was 3x higher!

I was not there in 92 but close friends of mine were, and they remember some folks having damage some none at all. It is amazing that this storm which technically was not a Hurricane but indeed a nor’easter is the biggest storm in recorded history to ever hit the east coast, and hardly anyone in the impact zones walked away unscathed from Sandy!!

Was a long, cold, wet, painful day......

My family lived in Point Pleasant Beach at the time on Niblick street and we lost our cars (they literally floated away) and had water in our house up to the 5th or 6th step going up to our 2nd floor. Im pretty sure we have some pretty crazy home video footage of it somewhere. The thing i remember most is an ambulance coming down the street to help someone and getting swept onto someone's yard because the water was so high. The firetrucks that came to evacuate us would not let us take our pets so my dad put on waders and literally carried our dog out of the flood in freezing chest high water. Im glad since then, rescue workers are more inclined to help you NOT leave your pets behind.

I remember going to bay head and mantoloking a few days after the storm and seeing the old cars exposed on the dunes in Manto... did Sandy was those old cars away?

'92 was tough, but we never lost power. Our kids were in school in those days, so we had a sleepover - made a big vat of pasta and sauce for their friends from low-lying areas, and loaned out our buckets and space heaters and whatnot to their parents (who were welcome to stay too but wanted to clean up at home).

I remember boats breaking loose on the river and folks treading water to retrieve them.

Anyone remember the March 1962 storm?

Joe,
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Yes, I remember, I had 3 foot of water & mud in my home in Forked River Beach, after which I raised my home up on pilings.
I am still here, and will get myself through Sandy's damage....

I was in sunny Arizona,moved there just 2 years prior,i remember my friends telling me that Keyport FIshery was completely flooded. 2 years after i moved back home to NJ. Lived here all my life i will never leave again. but i can do without the Hurricanes..

you know the funny part of the storm was that I never lost my electric,I wonder why? Maybe because jcpl was on the ball then and didn't stretch their resources too thin,Just a Guess

I had just bought my house in Point Boro and had moved out of Manasquan 11 days earlier...the house I had been renting there was flooded. My neighbor and the guy who rented my side (it was a duplex) lost almost everything and had to move out for weeks. Having lived through several floods there with little damage up until then, I remember thinking how lucky I was to get out when I did. Here in Point I did just fine and never lost power. I guess that was because JCP&L equipment was 20 years newer?

I remember that Sea Bright was pretty well devastated in 1992, as well. And I remember wondering why anyone would risk re-building on a barrier island. Houses flooded. Roofs blew off building in the Highlands. Boats on the parkway by Cheesequake Creek. But, it didn't stop anyone from building BIGGER houses on Sea Bright.

In 92 I rented in Ortley Beach and the home did get some water and significant damage. I decided if I ever bought I'd buy on the safer "bay side" and never on LBI.

Here we are after Sandy and I'm rebuilding my home in Brick, probably for the next year.

Lesson? I guess no where on the water is every going to be truly safe.

However, I wouldn't give it up for a million dollars...and by the end of all this, it may just cost that too.

I had just started my property management company in 1992 and had most of my contracts for properties in sea bright and nearby. 1992 hit hard and we worked for around six months without a day off. One development had two units blow into the ocean along with a parking lot and a vintage porche. Another place we sat in what was a living room but after the storm was a roofless room with a horse shoe crab on a chair! In a high rise in Red Bank we lost the pool and marina. Swore right then to never manage anything on the water. Fast forward twenty years, managing a wonderful property not near the water.....had some tree loss but nothing like back then. Was in Sea Bright last week. What happened in 1992 was bad but nothing like Sandy. Damage leaves you speechless ....... Sea Bright will never be the same nor will any of us. Thankfull for all of our blessings and determined to help those who need it.

Never forget this storm. our rehearsal dinner restaurant was flooded out and wedding was in the middle of a snow storm on Dec12th. On way to airport on 13th we passed boats that broke away and landed on parkway in Atlantic highlands

I would have to say that before this year the Ash Wednesday Storm in March of 62 was the worst. My grandparents lost a house in that one.

My family's home was hit hard during this storm. We had 3 and 1/2 feet of water in our home. Unfortunately we were home at the time of the storm and I remember my mom wading through the water downstairs to get any food that was high up to feed me and my 3 brothers and sister. The insurance company didn't help much then just as they are doing now after we had almost 6 feet of water this time around.

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