Jeff Kuhlman never thought Superstorm Sandy would make a hard left turn toward the Jersey Shore, despite preparing for the storm by planning for a week without electricity and filling every container he had with drinking water because he had well water at the time. What he couldn’t possibly have known is that when Sandy made landfall on Oct. 29, 2012, his basement would be used as the epicenter for producing the first edition of The SandPaper post storm just five days later.

“After the storm, (publisher) Curt (Travers) reached out to me and wanted to get a SandPaper issue out ASAP,” Kuhlman,…