Carlo Lomas-Sandy, five years later

Teri Gragg still chokes up when she talks about the monster storm that roared through this seaside community and upended her life. The memories are vivid: The overwhelming odor of dead fish and seaweed, the bridge from the golf course across the street that ended up in her front yard and roughly three feet of water inside an almost unrecognizable home.With an estimated $70.2 billion in damage, Sandy is the third costliest natural disaster in US history (it was second until being overtaken by Hurricane Harvey in August). The storm was responsible for at least 147 deaths in the Northeast United States, Canada and the Caribbean. A dozen people died in New Jersey alone.Tumbling toward the narrow main road that separates the town from the bay, it’s easy to see why people who don’t want the Atlantic City experience would find solace in Brigantine. A community with one bridge to come on and off the island, it’s the kind of place where people say hi to strangers passing by.

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