{"id":1313,"date":"2017-11-02T03:37:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T07:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2017-11-02T12:10:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T16:10:28","slug":"new-video-shows-detailed-onslaught-of-sandy-in-normandy-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/11\/new-video-shows-detailed-onslaught-of-sandy-in-normandy-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"New Video Shows Detailed Onslaught of Sandy in Normandy Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hurricane Sandys Onslaught  Normandy Beach NJ\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Tqoa2jzq7g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new video emerged this week, nearly five years to the day Superstorm Sandy battered the Jersey Shore, showing the storm&#8217;s brutal onslaught in the Normandy Beach neighborhood of Ocean County&#8217;s northern barrier island.<\/p>\n<p>The video, which was uploaded to YouTube Tuesday, shows detailed footage of the storm&#8217;s initial wind and rough surf, then the dunes breaching and sea water running down neighborhood streets. It also shows, from a few blocks south, the fire that destroyed the Camp Osborn community.<\/p>\n<p>The video was shot by\u00a0Scott Zabelski, a local who also owns Blue Water Printing, the company that popularized the &#8220;Restore the Shore&#8221; shirts that were sold during recovery. The proceeds of the t-shirts were donated to charity.<\/p>\n<p>The family has owned a home two houses from the beach since 1954, said Bart Zabelski, the uncle of Scott Zabelski. Shortly after the storm, he wrote a letter to the Asbury Park Press detailing his experiencing riding it out. He provided a copy of that letter to Shorebeat today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I walked near the beach just before land fall at garage doors of the ocean fronts blowing out from the ocean and water flowing down my street I knew I was in trouble,&#8221; he wrote in the letter. &#8220;Four foot waves were braking on my street in front of my house and I knew if I was going to survive I had to get up on the 2nd floor as fast as I could . Looking out in the north I could see Camp Osborn burning with flames clearly visible 75 feet in the air. My house was shuttering with every wind gust that was near 85 mph. I moved myself into the center of my house and prayed I would get out of this .&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Normandy Beach, a neighborhood with its own ZIP code split between Brick and Toms River townships, suffered significant damage, including fully destroyed homes and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/strong> This story has been updated to include comments from the\u00a0Zabelski family.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/11\/new-video-shows-detailed-onslaught-of-sandy-in-normandy-beach\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new video emerged this week, nearly five years to the day Superstorm Sandy battered the Jersey Shore&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-superstorm-sandy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-02-at-1.06.38-AM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}