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Angelita Liaguno-Dorr moved her restaurant to a temporary location after her business was destroyed by Superstorm Sandy. Her new location does not attract the same business she received while her restaurant, Jakeabob’s Bay, was on the beach.
Houses are being raised to set foundations based on the base flood elevations received by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The Rutgers-New Brunswick campus faced heavy rainfall and winds, forcing its shutdown for a week.
The sign above stood in place of Angelita Liaguno-Dorr’s destroyed restaurant on the bay of Union Beach. Liaguno-Dorr only received $9,657.14 from her insurance company to rebuild.
Residents of Union Beach, NJ still live in trailers, cars, or with neighbors.
The shore is no longer a setting for books like Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea,” where a fisherman battles a large marlin. Rather, TV shows like “Jersey Shore” have contributed to the image of the beach as a popular recreational space.
The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy boosted Gov. Chris Christie’s political career, as his approval rating hit 72 percent, according to a Quinnipiac Poll in the days following the storm.
In the days leading up to Oct. 29, 2012, dark gray skies loomed over rustling trees and fluttering leaves on the Rutgers-New Brunswick campus as wind picked up speed.
The sound of the ocean breezes through empty lots, where houses once lay in the borough of Union Beach, N.J. Rubble and flat land occupy spaces between rows of houses. Some streets have a few houses placed on cribbing.
State Climatologist David Robinson believes New Jersey’s climate is changing. He said the last few decades in New Jersey have been the warmest, and the state is getting wetter, with heavy rainfall events increasing in number.
Hurricane Sandy forced the Rutgers-New Brunswick campus to shutdown for one week. More than 6,000 Students had to be evacuated from Cook, Douglass and College Avenue campuses’ residential areas to Busch and Livingston campuses, as they did not use New Brunswick’s water.
Right on the shoreline in Union Beach is an empty space with a sign that reads, “Jakeabob’s Bay insured by Lloyds of London for $1.2 million. Offered $9,657.14, Deductible $10,000.00. Thanks for nothing!”
Due to an increased demand for on-campus housing, the University expects to place about 120 first-year students and about 75 transfer students in temporary housing, said Joan Carbone, associate vice president of Student Affairs.
Millions of teenaged girls have hash-tagged “VoteOneDirection” so the boy band’s hit “Best Song Ever” will win the MTV Video Music Awards’ “Best Song of Summer” category —and so has School of Arts and Sciences senior Zack Morrison.
The Grease Trucks are not shutting down. That is the statement the University and the New Brunswick Development Corporation have continued to push after it was revealed the Grease Trucks would have to leave their current space before or on Aug. 15.
In a University-conducted survey from spring 2012, out of 1,812 students polled, 67 percent said they eat at the Grease Trucks at least once a month.
Rutgers Athletic Director Julie Hermann has revealed she is gay, according to her official biography on scarletknights.com.
Yesterday, the University’s Board of Governors released the results of an independent review surrounding the events preceding the dismissal of former men’s basketball coach Mike Rice.
The University Board of Trustees is under fire again, this time from state Senator Steve Sweeney. He has proposed a bill that would eliminate the Board of Trustees and transfer its powers to the Board of Governors.
Despite opposition from students at last week’s Board of Governors meeting, a 2.4 percent tuition increase was approved for the University.
