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This chapter illustrates how Hurricane Sandy showed residents the possibilities that can come from putting politics aside. It discusses Collette Kennedy's first campaign for elected office, running for a seat on the Keyport Borough Council. As life-changing as Sandy was for Kennedy herself, it was equally transformative for the borough of Keyport, a town long stymied in entrenched infighting and parochial protocols and policies. The chapter also uncovers how a tour of Union Beach, five years after the storm, revealed rows of boarded-up properties and dozens of trailers, still parked in the driveways of uninhabitable homes. The chapter recounts the financial insecurity, abandoned properties, the changing Bayshore skyline, and some of the most enduring legacies of the storm. |
