Gov. Chris Christie marked the third anniversary of Superstorm Sandy by visiting Moonachie.
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Miller Homes is a family-owned and -operated business, creating modular homes for clients along the Jersey Shore that is an A-plus accredited member of the Better Business Bureau. It was, Bazzarelli recalled, “the worst nightmare”.
Dan Zarilli, the director of the Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency, said the city has been hardening coastlines and that we are safer now than when Sandy hit. For those who did not live through it, he said, “It is nearly impossible to believe the devastation that occurred in our state in that 24-hour period”.
In a Senate floor speech Thursday on the third anniversary of the storm, Menendez said many New Jerseyans still can not get back into their storm-damaged homes.
Other areas in the northeast flooded as well, including in the Capital Region. In the meantime, megastorm Patricia in Mexico and Hurricane Joaquin – with its accompanying 1,000-year floods in South Carolina – reminded us that another apocalyptic storm could devastate American communities this time of year. Christie has weakened storm water rules, while vetoing legislation to finance detention basin retrofits that we need to prevent flooding. 46 bridge and an elevated generator at the Willow Lake pump station. We took seven Sandy survivors. The previous building on the site had to be demolished after it was badly damaged by the storm.
“I’m a veteran. I spent the night last night here in World War II Memorial Park because it’s important that the people across the street understand that thousands of us are still not home yet”, said Doug Quinn of Toms River.
Here in New Jersey, she said, it’s been a struggle for average Sandy victims to get a seat at the table. Meg in Stanhope, for example, said this would cost her upwards of $100,000.
We also are missing a buyout plan for the Shore.
What is a constant is how severe weather will stress and sometimes break our energy grid and will most surely challenge those who are tasked with repairing the system.
“The government on all levels failed, really failed us”, she said.
The number of people still displaced is not available, said Devecka-Rinear. It has rebuilt 183 homes and has a goal of completing 300 to 500 homes.
On October 29, 2012, Superstorm Sandy struck New Jersey, causing almost $30 billion in damages and forcing several years of work recovering.
Superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc on New Jersey three years ago, but residents continue to feel its effects today and do not believe that the state has fully recovered, according to the latest Rutgers-Eagleton Poll. It’s also been a fierce critic of Trenton’s handling of the recovery, taking the Christie administration to court to demand greater transparency of the behind-the-scenes workings of the state’s housing-recovery grant programs. “Our caseworker was there to answer every question and made us feel very comfortable as we went through the paperwork”. “And those mistakes were corrected”.
But despite the scene, many storm victims remained cautiously optimistic that things would work out in the end, and that the end wasn’t too far over the horizon.
Those words rang hollow to a few.
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The Center for American Progress released a report today examining the effectiveness of New York and New Jersey’s programs to rebuild houses and rehome residents after Hurricane Sandy.
