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How the most destructive nor’easter in Shore history primed beach towns for a building boom

The Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 sliced Long Beach Island into five pieces and devastated the barrier islands. What followed was a massive increase in real estate values.

Damage from the “Ash Wednesday Storm” of 1962 blaming for killing 22 people in New Jersey and Delaware and making an absolute wreck of the beaches.
Damage from the “Ash Wednesday Storm” of 1962 blaming for killing 22 people in New Jersey and Delaware and making an absolute wreck of the beaches.Read moreInquirer / Daily News archive