Hurricane Sandy: New Jersey still struggling

Debris removed from damaged homes and businesses line a street in Lavallette, N.J., in early December, weeks after Superstorm Sandy.   (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Volunteers with Jersey Shore Calvary Chapel help gut a damaged home in Lavallette, N.J., weeks after Superstorm Sandy.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Mark Palazzolo, owner of a bait and tackle shop in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., sits next to wood he has used to board up his business in major storms over the years.   (Wayne Parry / Associated Press)

Graffiti on a destroyed house in New Jersey reads, “We’re still here Sandy.”  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

A visitor takes a photo of the Fun Town pier weeks after Superstorm Sandy hit the Jersey Shore.   (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

A woman rakes the sand near her front door in Ortley Beach, N.J., nearly six weeks after Superstorm Sandy.   (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

A roller-coaster that sat atop the Fun Town pier in Seaside Heights, N.J., rests in the ocean shortly after Superstorm Sandy.   (Julio Cortez / Associated Press)

A Seaside Heights, N.J., police officer patrols the beach near a roller-coaster that sits in the water almost six weeks after Superstorm Sandy wrecked a pier.   (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)