What was the worst storm you remember?
Vera Fernicola, Allenhurst & Susie Belfer w/Eva, Loch Arbour
We both remember the December storm of 92. Monmouth Beach was flooded – you couldnt get through.
The Tradewinds roof blew off.
Everything was shaking. Noreasters are the worst.
Derrick Harris & Bridgette w/Zaniyah, Asbury Park
The December storm of 92. We were here in Asbury Park.
The trees were down. Windows were blown out of the stores. There was looting.
It was the worst one we remember.
Jessica Mullikin, Sunset Diner
Hurricane Hugo. I was in South Carolina.
We were inside the house, all the windows were shattered out.
My mother saved someone from a car that was floating downstream.
We stayed under a mattress with my mother and step father laying on top of it.
Denise Oliver w/Bamby, Ocean Grove
I remember the storm called World War II. I was in France – about 100 miles east of Paris, going to Germany.
I remember an American plane flying over my parents house every night.
My family was decimated during the first world war. My motherss brother was killed in 1918. All the young men were killed.
Im against the war in Iraq. I was alone at the beginning of the war – but now people understand.
Steve Smith, Seaside Park, Cheryl Sovack, Ocean Grove & Ken Ronkowitz, Cedar Grove
Steve: I was the night clerk at Aztec motel in Seaside Heights. Everybody was snowed in. we had to make a run to Foodtown to feed everyone. That was about 20 years ago. It was fun.
Cheryl: It was back in the mid 70s. We had an ice storm that knocked everything out for several days. the neighbors came to our house to sleep on the floor. It was a big party.
Ken: I think it was around 1987. My wife and I are teachers and they closed school on the first day. We stayed home and felt very safe.
Gayle Aanensen, Ocean Grove
I remember the green sky and palm trees touching the ground during a hurricane in Florida.
I was about 8 years old and not afraid.
My heart goes out to those experiencing it now.
Nels & Heather Anderson, Ocean Grove
We both remember the storm in December of 92, the noreaster. It ripped the tree out of the backyard on Cedar Avenue in Long Branch.
Nels, remembers Hurricane Donna back in 61. A boathouse in Locust was crushed by a fallen tree.
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