10 Years Ago This Week - A Look Back at Sandy [The Spectacular History of the New Jersey Shore]

[@wanagi006]

Thank you for this video. I live on Chincoteague Island Va ( born and bred Jersey Girl)....a friend ( a great friend!!) insisted on driving down to get me and my dogs and parrot....the further north we drove, the worse it got. We made it to Bensalem Pa and was not but 2 miles from her house when we were rear ended by a clown car full of south of the border people from Va. on Street Road ( I know they were from Va because I got out and their Va license plate was laying there). Ugh.... what a shit shit show. Later ,after our adventure at Torresdale Hospital I saw footage down the shore of the boards being plucked up by the winds and the houses being pushed off their foundations....Well... thanks again for the video.

[@historyofthejerseyshore]

Thank for watching! Sounds like you had a crazy adventure during Sandy. So many people have stories. Believe it or not a lot of people still have stories of the 62 storm. Thanks again and I hope everything turned out OK after the storm.

[@MegaBait1616]

I remember this like yesterday 16 days of no power.... luckily I had a large generator and a boat full of gas to get through this time.... Shark River pushed boats through houses 4 1/2 blocks up from the bay..... be well.

[@historyofthejerseyshore]

Glad you had the generator and gas to get you through. But 16 days without power is no joke! I did know that happened up the Shark River. No place else for the ocean to go.

[@MegaBait1616]

@@historyofthejerseyshore , yup was bad...

[@iluvlexiful]

Wow, 10 years ago! We were very lucky where I am in Neptune City. 10 days without power but we didn’t have any damage thank God! Alaska rescued our power. What we take for granted every day.

[@historyofthejerseyshore]

You're so right. We forget to be grateful for what we have until something like Sandy happens. 10 days without power or hot water is still no picnic. But so many others were much more unfortunate.

[@brandongaming1049]

wow 10 years Ago and the Jet Star Roller Coaster is washed out!

[@bobwigg761]

The Jet-Star Rollercoaster operated from 1970 to 2000; it was replaced by the Star-Jet a year later. It was the Star-Jet, not Jet-Star that went into the water. The Jet-Star was manufactured by Schwarzkopf, a German Ride manufacturer. When this ride was retired after 30 years of operation on Casino Pier, another manufacturer, Miler Industries in the USA designed and built a new ride. It was named Star-Jet, in memory of the original and it was placed at the same location in 2002. From a distance, they looked similar, but were mechanically different in every way. The news media mistakenly referred to it as the Jet-Star, when Sandy hit, and this misinformation has lived on ever since.

[@historyofthejerseyshore]

Yep, hard to believe, right. As someone pointed out, it was actually the Star Jet roller coaster that crumbled into the ocean off Casino Pier. Many people got the 2 mixed up and reported it as the Jet Star, including newspapers, newscasts, and myself.

[@brandongaming1049]

@@historyofthejerseyshore oh ok

[@brandongaming1049]

i remember this as well!

[@phillymanpete]

@@bobwigg761 The point of the matter is that the Roller Coaster ended up in the OCEAN. The precise name is secondary.

[@bobwigg761]

The Jet Star Rollercoaster operated from 1970 to 2000; it was replaced by the Star Jet a year later. It was the Star Jet, not Jet Star that went into the water.

[@historyofthejerseyshore]

You are correct!