When I revealed to my wife that I was going to write about the 1962 nor’easter and our block down in Holgate for The SandPaper, she was happy for me. She knows how much I love the Island. But then, after a pause and a bit of a quizzical glance, she asked me why I was so interested in this storm. She has endured many LBI tales over the years, but since the ’62 Storm was 15 years my senior, she wondered where my passion stems from. I have to admit that question really made me think.
Perhaps it was the high-water mark in my family’s kitchen that piqued my curiosity as a kid.
Subscribe to keep reading
This story is from our archive. Get your SandPaper Annual Pass for access to our digital archive, plus everything else a pass includes. Details below.
Annual Pass — $18 Details
365-day access to:
- The complete SandPaper digital archive (stories date back to 2012).
- Full photo galleries from our photographers.
- The entire catalog of SandPaper games, puzzles and quizzes.
How it works
- Enter your email below and click to pay the one-time $18. Card details are entered on Stripe’s secure page.
- You’re in straight away — no password to create, and nothing to set up or manage.
- You stay signed in. If you’re ever signed out, or you read on a new phone or computer, we’ll email you a code to get you back in.
- Never auto-renews. Your pass is good for one year. We will email you when it expires so you can renew if you’d like.
See our site policies for more information.
Already a subscriber? We’ll email a code to get you back in.
