Editing Mantoloking, New Jersey (section)

===Impact of Hurricane Sandy===
[[File:Mantoloking NJ devastation.jpg|thumb|left|Breach of the barrier island in Mantoloking after Hurricane Sandy]]
During [[Hurricane Sandy]] in 2012, [[storm surge]] damaged about 90% of the properties in Mantoloking with the largest damage occurring when a breach was formed between the Barnegat Bay and the Atlantic Ocean in the vicinity of Herbert Street ([[County Route 528 (New Jersey)|CR 528]]).<ref name=AppJuly2013>Funderburk, Kristi. ''[[Asbury Park Press]]''. [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/11/sandy-cleanup-dilemma/2509889/ "N.J. town 'still looks like Beirut' 8 months after Sandy"], ''[[USA Today]]'', July 11, 2013. Accessed January 24, 2015. "The town has 528 properties, and Sandy damaged at least 90% of them, Nelson said."</ref>

When Hurricane Sandy made landfall in New Jersey on October 29, 2012, the [[effects of Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey|effects]] were severe, and Mantoloking was especially hard hit, with more than 50 homes requiring demolition,<ref>Funderburk, Kristi. [http://www.app.com/article/20130711/NJNEWS/307110018/Mantoloking-Sandy-cleanup "Sandy cleanup continues in Mantoloking; 'still looks like Beirut'; 50 homes demolished so far"], ''[[Asbury Park Press]]'', July 11, 2013. Accessed August 5, 2013.</ref> accounting for almost 10% of the housing units in the borough as of the 2010 Census.<ref name=Census2010/> [[Verizon Communications]] announced in July 2013 that it won't rebuild its [[landline|copper-wire]] based [[plain old telephone service]] to Mantoloking residents, instead providing them with its Voice Link wireless service, an effort that brought protests from the [[AARP]]. Residents have complained that many calls don't go through when dialed, that fax transmissions cannot be made, that 911 calls may be affected by network bottlenecks and that power outages would result in the loss of service.<ref>Wyatt, Edward. [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/15/technology/on-a-new-jersey-islet-twilight-of-the-landline.html 'On a New Jersey Islet, Twilight of the Landline"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 14, 2013. Accessed October 14, 2013. "Hurricane Sandy devastated this barrier island community of multimillion-dollar homes, but in Peter Flihan's view, Verizon Communications has delivered a second blow: the telecommunications giant did not rebuild the landlines destroyed in the storm, and traditional telephone service here has now gone the way of the telegraph."</ref><ref>via [[Associated Press]]. [http://www.northjersey.com/news/state/AARP_objects_to_lack_of_land_lines_in_1_NJ_town.html "AARP objects to Verizon plan not to bring landline phone service back to Mantoloking"], ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', July 31, 2013. Accessed August 5, 2013.</ref>