Hurricane Sandy
VIDEO: Sewaren Homes Condemned from Sandy Storm Surge; Residents Need Help
Foundations are destroyed in Sewaren homes - they are worried about what else the storm surge from Hurricane Sandy dredged up in Woodbridge.
When Hurricane Sandy devastated the Sewaren waterfront, Cliff Road was full of gawkers and sightseers, all with cameras to take pictures of the boats piled up like discarded toys. But a few blocks away, the more modest homes on Sewaren's side streets experienced up to 6 ft. of devastation as branches of the Woodbridge River flooded from the storm surge. On S. Robert Street in Sewaren, Blake Rutherford counts himself fortunate. The foundation of his renovated home is still intact. He can't say the same for his neighbor. "This is what happened during the storm," Rutherford said as he pointed to a gaping hole in what used to be the enclosed basement of his neighbor's home. The storm surge lifted up Rutherford's fence and forced opened his …
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Chery Battista
7:19 pm on Sunday, December 23, 2012
Christmas in December also sounds good. Our home was displayed in this video and 2 months later we are still not back in our home. Of course we weren't in a flood zone so our insurance won't pay for any ground water damage in which caved our foundation in knocking down the basement wall taking out our electrical panel and all our plumbing pipes besides flooding 7ft of water into our finishd … more ›