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Date: March 18, 2007 (left) and October 31, 2012 (right)
Location: Mantoloking, New Jersey
Photographer: NOAA Remote Sensing Division
Source: Aerial photography courtesy of the NOAA Remote Sensing Division. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.
The two aerial photographs show a portion of the New Jersey coastal town of Mantoloking, just north of where Hurricane Sandy made landfall. The photograph on the right by the Remote Sensing Division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on October 31, 2012; the image on the left was acquired by the same group on March 18, 2007. The images were acquired from an altitude of roughly 7,500 feet, using a Trimble Digital Sensor System.
The Mantoloking Bridge cost roughly $25 million when it was opened in 2005 to replace a bridge built in 1938. After Sandy passed through on October 29, 2012, the bridge was covered in water, sand, and debris from houses; county officials closed it because they considered it unstable.
On the barrier island, entire blocks of houses along Route 35 (also called Ocean Boulevard) were damaged or completely washed away by the storm surge and wind. Fires raged in the town from natural gas lines that had ruptured and ignited. A new inlet was cut across the island, connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Jones Tide Pond.
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