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Title: Great Storms of the Jersey Shore by Larry Savadore, Margaret Thomas Buchholz, Bill Bradley ISBN: 0-945582-51-X Publisher: Down the Shore Pub Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (11 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A gripping book with spectacular photographs
Comment: This book is gripping, thanks to its well-written descriptions of coastal storms and the spectacular photographs of storm damage. Two of the most frightening and destructive of the many storms described in the book are the Great Atlantic Hurricane of September 1944, which "was so powerful it pushed World War II off the front page" and the three-day March 1962 storm, a northeaster "more furious than any hurricane" that ever hit the New Jersey shore, a storm that "battered and bludgeoned the shore until...almost every trace of a human presence had been washed away." It happened to be raining heavily when I was reading the chapter about the latter storm; between the rain pounding on my window and the vivid descriptions by the authors (and the storm survivors) of the rising tide sweeping away houses and cutting Long Beach Island into five islands, I admit I was holding my breath in fear and excitement. A fact-filled, moving and thought-provoking book!

Rating: 5
Summary: I'll always remember Ocean City for its fun... and storms
Comment: What can I say about this book? Something around the lines of... I absolutely think this book is one of the greatest ever written!

Going to OCNJ was always the highlight of my summer. A week right before the 4th of July - what better to watch fireworks then right out on the boardwalk? So obviously when I now spend my summers in Stone Harbor, I still go to the boardwalk at OCNJ just for old time's sake. So in Stone Harbor, I went to the nearby Atlantic bookstore. There was a long section of books on the Jersey shore and so I picked up this one. I recognized some of the storms, knowing how these had gone through some of the times I had been at OCNJ. Most of them however I didn't know, but nevertheless some of them DID come back to me. So I decided that this book will, although in the years I've been coming, I definitely will buy it -be the best book ever!

Rating: 4
Summary: A Touchstone Reference for Stormy New Jersey
Comment: If you live in New Jersey--as I do. If you have relatives who live near the Jersey Shore--as I do. If you love meteorology and disaster stories--as I do. Then you will be fascinated by this book. It starts in colonial times and works it's way to the present and even predicts the future. What more could you want?

Well maybe a few more widely differentiated anecdotes--many end up sounding the same.

Maybe, a few more pithy quotes from contemporary newspapers and other media.

Maybe a better explanation of extra-tropical cyclones and how they form. These are the great scourge of the Northeastern coast and make up a majority of this history. You just don't hear as much about Nor'easters because they don't have names.

Maybe a bit more on how the Jersey shore prepares and deals with these monsters of the deep. A frank and wide-ranging discussion on whether our shore-management policies and techniques are futile would not be very popular, but very useful.

The best features of this book intertwine. It's long range history treats the great hurricane of 1821 (the last hurricane whose eye contacted and tracked on shore)which of course is outside of the memory of living society. The book closes with an account of an imaginary hurricane doing much the same in the near future. We need to remember our past to be prepared for the future. What happened once can very well happen again. The 1821 hurricane roughly followed the current route of the Garden State Parkway. I rarely travel that toll road without remembering that we may have a very big payment to make someday.