Newly Released Video Shows Hurricane Sandy Drama On New Jersey Beach

Video still of Sandy's assault on a barrier island
in New Jersey five years ago

The epic windstorm we had on Sunday and Monday came right around the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, which of course was a much worse storm, especially in New Jersey and the New York metro area.

As public radio station WHYY reports, somebody with the handle Bartski released on YouTube a fascinating video of the Sandy's approach, hit and aftermath on Normandy Beach, New Jersey, a barrier island that was under mandatory evacuation.

However, "Bartski" stayed behind to watch the storm, which was foolhardy. (Kind of like my husband, who stayed at a beach house in Rhode Island during the Perfect Storm in 1991. In that case, he awoke the morning after the storm to find that enormous boulders placed in front of the house had washed away.)

Anyway, the video show the orange glow of a fire that destroyed many cottages nearby. It also shows the worsening storm, with water coming onto the streets. The wildest and saddest parts of the video are near the end, which shows the destruction the next morning.

The video is 15 minutes long, but totally worth the view: