Great Storms of the Jersey Shore, 2nd Edition

Great Storms of the Jersey Shore, 2nd EditionThis is a book about living on the edge. It is a book of survival stories gripping accounts from those who have experienced major storms along the New Jersey Shore, woven together with contemporary news and you are there reports. Originally published in 1993, this expanded second edition includes an extensive chapter on Superstorm Sandy, the most destructive storm to strike the region in generations. But readers who know only of Sandy may be amazed by

This is a book about living on the edge. It is a book of survival stories — gripping accounts from those who have experienced major storms along the New Jersey Shore, woven together with contemporary news and you-are-there reports.

Originally published in 1993, this expanded second edition includes an extensive chapter on Superstorm Sandy, the most destructive storm to strike the region in generations. But readers who know only of Sandy may be amazed by the stories of the Shore’s historic storms, especially the hurricane of 1944 or the March northeaster of 1962. Before modern building codes, flood insurance, evacuation orders, or reliable forecasts, these epic storms were as completely devastating.

This new edition updates other coastal weather events from recent years. And because development at the Jersey Shore continues apace — driven by a never-fading desire to live by the ocean at a time when the climate is changing and the seas are rising — an afterword on the future of the Shore, by Pulitzer Prize winning author Gil Gaul, has been added.

Great Storms of the Jersey Shore is dramatically illustrated with nearly 300 photographs, engravings, and graphics. Reproduced here in large format, these images take on new life and provide a window through which we can view the past and appreciate both the horror and beauty of nature unleashed.

Within these pages the voices of those who have known the power of great coastal storms draw us in to a time and place where survival is uncertain. For those who have experienced such storms — as their stories reveal in this book — it is a defining moment in their lives.

“Only a few people get to experience the great storms and they tend to remember every detail of every moment. And while most hope they never have to go through one again, only a few wish they’d missed it in the first place.” — from the Preface

Benjamin Franklin Book Awards winner: Gold Award — Best Regional Book in the Nation

Copies signed by co-author Margaret Thomas Buchholz available - just ask!