Hurricane Sandy

'This Old House' Featuring a Point Boro House and Others

PBS show about renovating and elevating Sandy-flooded homes

  An eight-episode series of 'This Old House' focuses on several local homes rebuilding after Superstorm Sandy. The PBS' show will first air in October. PBS announced the show worked on an 1880s cottage in Bay Head, a 1950s Colonial in Point Pleasant, and a prefabricated new house in Manasquan. Side stories will also feature restoration projects in Mantoloking, Long Beach Island, and Ocean Grove and other local projects along the beach and the bay. Here is the complete announcement from the show producers: Months after Superstorm Sandy devastated shorelines on the East Coast, affected homeowners are still determining how to rebuild in a landscape of provisional FEMA regulations, delayed building permits and continued weather risks. During …

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Hurricane Sandy

FEMA Gives $2.1 Million for Point Beach Boardwalk Rebuilding

Boardwalk to be done by Memorial Day weekend

  Shortly after Point Beach announced it had not received a dime of FEMA money, FEMA announced it's sending the oceanfront town $2.1 million to help pay for the rebuilding of its Sandy-ravaged boardwalk. Eight days after Point Beach officials at a council meeting bemoaned the lack of cash flowing from FEMA, FEMA made its announcement. On Wednesday afternoon, U.S. Senators Frank R. Lautenberg and Robert Menendez (both D-NJ) today announced that Point Pleasant Beach will receive more than $2.1 million to reimburse the town for the cost of repairing and rebuilding the boardwalk.   The allocation reimburses the town for 75 percent of its written request to FEMA for the cost of the boardwalk repairs and rebuilding, said Point Beach Business …

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Hurricane Sandy

NJ First Lady's Fund Donates $31,300 to Church in Point Beach

Funds will help house volunteers helping Sandy victims

  New Jersey First Lady Mary Pat Christie announced on Monday morning that the Hurricane Sandy NJ Relief Fund is donating $31,300 to help Point Pleasant Presbyterian Church renovate facilities for out-of-town volunteers helping Sandy victims. This grant will be used to improve the church's Volunteer Village dormitory facilities, which house 36 volunteers per week and supply non-profits with volunteer labor for local home rebuilding. Christie toured the church's dormitory facilities, including bunk beds with mattresses donated by the US Army, bathrooms and a stage area where showers and dressing rooms will be constructed. The donation from the relief fund overseen by Christie will help renovate bathrooms, buy tools and convert a garage into…

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Rebuilding from Sandy a Struggle for Toms River Paraplegic [VIDEO]

Eric Katz faces accessibility challenges if he must raise his Green Island home

With the help of his father, Eric Katz spent over three years renovating the house that allowed him to live how he wanted. The 30 year-old paraplegic has been in a wheelchair since age 15, but that never stopped him from living an active and independent life. Then Superstorm Sandy struck. His custom home in Toms River's Green Island section was devastated by flooding.  "I had never even seen water in the street," said Katz from inside his gutted home, the walls half removed and floors stripped bare. "For [Hurricane] Irene, it didn't even come over the bulkhead." Katz was putting the finishing touches on his lagoon-side ranch just two week before Sandy pushed 35 inches of water into the garage. About 18 inches of water made it inside the …

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Mr. ?

11:09 pm on Friday, April 12, 2013

First and most important is the best of luck to Eric and others trying to resolve this disaster and rebuild! And to 1stcav, you are absolutely right and as you stated "Somethings you just have to do yourself"...but you cant anymore because of government and regulation!....most alienated from logic and common sense, and from the true common good - each of us and individual liberty. Freedom and …   more ›

Elevating Homes After Sandy: 'Wait-and-See Approach Is Prudent'

For owners of homes not substantially damaged by the storm, waiting for final flood maps and flood insurance rates could help in making decision.

  Editor's Note: This story was written by our Ocean City Local Editor and we wanted to share these thoughts with our readers in the greater Point Pleasant Borough-Beach area. Point Pleasant Patch is continuing to reach out to FEMA and other government officials to get more information about how flooded residents should proceed as they wait for FEMA's flood maps to become preliminary for this area, which may be in August or September. Thanks for continuing to read Patch. With a flood map still in flux and flood insurance premium increases still not set, property owners may have too little information to make an informed decision on whether to rebuild their homes at a higher elevation, according to state officials and local insurance agents…

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"Jersey Strong" Needs to Be Jersey Smarter

Environmentalists call for rebuilding that protects the environment and strengthens communities

Retreating from areas that consistently flood, improving sewer systems so they are less prone to overflowing and creating better wastewater management systems are just a few steps that have to be taken to make the Jersey Shore's post-Sandy rebuilding process more environmentally safe, said environmentalists on Thursday. Officials from leading New Jersey environmental organizations discussed the importance of taking these measures and many others as part of a teleconference on Thursday when they laid out what the state's guiding principles should be as it moves through recovery and rebuilding. American Littoral Society’s Tim Dillingham said, “These principles if followed by state, local and private decision makers will result in a restored …

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Christie: Seaside Coaster in Ocean an Iconic Image, But 'I Will Not Forget' Other Devastation

Governor says he's fighting for entire state

Continuing the Season of Service initiative launched in Toms River last week, Gov. Chris Christie and First Lady Mary Pat Christie was in Port Monmouth, another area devastated by Hurricane Sandy. In his comments, Christie said that while the photos of Seaside Heights' roller coaster in the Atlantic Ocean were indeed "iconic images" it didn't make reaching out to the Bayshore, Long Beach Island and other devastated parts of New Jersey any less important. Here is a video from the governor's office of a portion of his comments.

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A Bit Less Bay Head Beach Access This Year

Construction of stairs to beach may temporarily limit some access points

A little patience will go a long way this summer if you plan to beach it in Bay Head. Superstorm Sandy not only wiped out the wooden stairs and platforms from the street ends to the beach, but it also badly damaged the building where badges are sold. Plans are in the works for full restoration but, meanwhile, as construction progresses, there may be days where there is not full access to every beach access point. But the beach will be open on June 15, the typical starting date, beach badge prices are the same as last year and there will be lifeguards, as usual, according to Tom Gage, president, Bay Head Improvement Association. Prices are: $70 for the season, $45 for half season and $7 for the day for those 12 and older. Those younger than…

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