Have you guys heard this story? Pretty wild...
We all know what a shitshow Hurricane Sandy was when it made landfall at the Jersey shore in October 2012. Homes filled with water. Boats washed up on people’s lawns and on the Brielle Avenue bridge. Also, a real estate sign went missing.
This sign had been planted in back of a house for sale on Cedarcrest Drive, facing a narrow inlet called Debbie’s Creek. The sign was 18 by 24 inches and about a half-inch thick and made of plastic composite. It disappeared along with the post it was mounted to and was never seen again.
Until around May 14, 2018. A man walking along the Plage du Pin Sec, near Bordeaux, spotted it. Evidently, Diane Turton, Realtors, needs no bottle to get its message out across the globe. As it turns out, its signs are seaworthy.
The for-sale sign made to a beach west of Bordeaux, France about 5½ years later, according to the real-estate firm based in Point Pleasant Beach. "Having our signage wash up in France on the beach truly proves that Diane Turton, Realtors is a global real-estate company," Perry Beneduce, the firm's marketing director, said with a bit of a wink.
Well over here on Long Island, Sandy was NOT a hurricane because it did not have sustained winds greater than 74 MPH. But, that was a good thing for many homeowners whose homes were destroyed. Many insurance policies have hurricane exclusions where the deductibles are huge if the house suffers hurricane damage. It took many court cases, but the homeowners eventually prevailed. The insurance companies even went so far as to hire a bogus engineering firms to write fake reports stating that the damage was not due to Sandy.
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