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Beach Haven, NJ : A slice of blue sky amid the wreckage.
Beach Haven, NJ: The New Jersey Barrier Islands were hammered by Sandy, and some residents now face a forced evacuation that could last eight months. Gas and sewer lines remain unrepaired.
Tom's River, NJ : Freddy Parker sits in the lobby of the Tom's River High School, which has become an refugee center for residents displaced by the storm.
Bradley Beach, NJ : "Where is the government? Where are these people?!" asked Chris Bieber as he waited in line all morning to get fuel. "Why is it taking so long to get help?"
On the Jersey Shore, Cries of ‘Where is the Government?’
The Jersey Shore has fared its share of bad weather. As the Los Angeles Times points out this morning (in a piece well worth the read), there was the winter storm of 1846 that wrecked nine ships (still known as the Day of Terror). There was the 1962 nor’easter, which washed a Navy destroyer ashore. And, of course, there was Irene, the first time on record a hurricane had hit the region.
But Sandy remains unlike anything residents here have seen. It sent a roller coaster into the ocean in Seaside Heights. It wrecked part of the famed boardwalk in Atlantic City. And in the Barrier Islands, some residents now face a forced evacuation that could last eight months. Gas and sewer lines remain unrepaired.
Photographer Benjamin Lowy — covering the Sandy recovery for Tumblr from his iPhone — spent the day on the Jersey Shore, siphoning gas, catching a cab, then train, then renting a car and driving from Philadelphia, to get there. Amid the wreckage, it’s no great surprise that residents here are crying for help — wondering, as Chris Bieber (above) put it, ”Why is it taking so long to get help?”
(Photographs, clockwise from top: a slice of blue sky and sand amid the wreckage; a man in the lobby of Tom’s River High School, which has become a temporary shelter; a damaged billboard in Beach Haven West; and Bieber, attempting to fill up his tank in Bradley Beach.)
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