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About Union Beach, NJ

On October 28, 2012, at 4:00pm, a mandatory evacuation was ordered for the entire borough was ordered by the mayor in preparation for Hurricane Sandy, the most destructive hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, as well as the second-costliest hurricane in United States history. Nearly a third of the borough's more than 6,200 residents had left by the time the worst of Hurricane Sandy had arrived. By morning, the videos and photos seen on television and social media left the state and the entire world in shock. Of the estimated 2,143 households in the borough, approximately 200 homes and businesses were damaged, 400 took on more than 6 feet (1.8 m) of water, 62 were "completely missing" with an additional 100 that had shifted off foundations and were no longer habitable. The borough's police department initially had to borrow several police cruisers.