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Long Beach Island trailer owners work to reclaim their paradise lost

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Denise Olschewski, of Lawrence Township, surveys the damage to her vacation home at the Long Beach Island Trailer Park in the Holgate section of Long Beach Township. The floods moved the wooden deck and stairs, as well as a central air conditioner that had been beside the trailer.

Photo by Barbara Errickson

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Ellen Lewis takes a break from cleaning up mud in her Long Beach Island Trailer Park vacation home to talk about her love of her vacation home in Holgate, Long Beach Township. The waterline can be seen on the cabinet by her right elbow.

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Bob Muroff, 73, talks to lot tenants at the trailer park he owns in Holgate, Long Beach Township: 'We promised you we’d never sell you out, and we kept that promise. We’re trying to come back. We’re working around the clock to come back. We have all the green lights from the township.'

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Rich, 51, and Jeanne Baigis, 45, of Bensalem, Pa., came to Holgate, Long Beach Township, to clean their trailer Sandy-damaged home on Roosevelt Avenue.

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Carrying a bag of cleaning supplies, Carol Ahr hugs her neighbor, Jeanne Baigis, as they return to her Holgate section home to start picking up the pieces after Hurricane Sandy's destruction.

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Damaged household goods fill the curbs of Roosevelt Avenue in the Holgate section of Long Beach Township after residents were back to clean up after Hurricane Sandy.

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