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monmouth

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Sat Nov 3, 2012, 04:47 PM Nov 2012

My future daughter-in-law called from Brick, NJ and they finally got power. She is a nurse and [View all]

worked a 36 hour shift, son works for Verizon and was sent home the first day, now working 12 hour shifts. They had some limbs fall but that's about it. They went into Manasquan as far as they could get and the devestation was so bad, she started to cry and they left. Boats sitting in the roadway, our old restaurant and bar is damaged from water, have no idea what all was lost. Manasquan is between Pt. Pleasant and Sea Girt/Spring Lake. Porches were taken off of beachfront homes. I doubt they will be able to re-build and zoning will be changed. The insurance companies are no longer going to pay to rebuild on these places and I think that's a good thing. So glad they now have power and heat.

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