Three summers removed from Superstorm Sandy, and two summers removed from the catastrophic fire, officials and merchants in Seaside Heights are hoping for a successful and catastrophe-free 2015 boardwalk season.
Talk about adding insult to injury. Exactly one year ago, after the boardwalk in Seaside Heights and Seaside Park had been rebuilt from Superstorm Sandy damage, a huge fire destroyed a three-block section of it, displacing more than 50 shop and store owners.
Despite several recent snowstorms that have moved through the Garden State, construction continues on the portion of the Seaside Heights boardwalk that was destroyed by fire in September.
The Seaside Park boardwalk custard shop near where September's fire is believed to have failed its electrical inspection in March and was never issued a certificate to restore its power.