Just more propaganda from the fat liar.

Good way to "help" the local hardware stores

Well, THAT was rude, chief !

I think everyone has had enough speeches about what they(the government) is going to do, how about shut up and do something for the people! Chrisite blasted Congress for not acting, now his wife sits on $32 million in donations, while the people are suffering. You can make this stuff up.

Wow, way to be positive guys, just what we need here, more bitterness and anger and name calling, very "Chief" fish, Chief...

A lot of positive vibes from a lot of blowhards

Well i think everyone is getting upset ....did yous read sundays paper....it doesnt matter what they build or bring to the towns...infact it doesnt matter if streets were paved in gold...it doesnt do any good if you dont give the ASSISTANCE AND HELP TO THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE. Ya know if i didnt know better i would accuse our governer of chasing away the lower class by avoiding assistance to make it place only the upper can afford.....HENCE ASBURY PARK.....

And what was Christies part in this besides showing up for a free lunch?

why don't ya take your suit off, don't have a media crew follow you & come to the local grocery stores, home Depot, lowes, even hair salons , barber shops. nail salons & gyms & talk to the people, very very few People are getting help. Townships & some business are getting help , But people already are leaving, they are so fed up with all the red tape & lack of support from FEMA. & insurance companies,,, we are going to have a rebuild of what it look like in Long Branch, the year round people will be gone & you will have a area that will only do business maybe at best 4 months out of the year... surprised I haven't seen Trump down here,

Oh my gosh...make up your minds! If he does nothing you complain and when he does you complain. Bottom line, if you are a Christie hater, you are not impressed..do just keep your comments to yourselves since a lot of people are happy over the idea (such as me).

As a support of Christie, & really like him, He needs to get people in their homes again, I always liked him, but if he wants Ocean,& Monmouth Cnty. support if he runs for President It cant NOT continue like this,
Suz, Did you lose your home? did you lose your car & denied help from fema, are you still busing your kids to the mall because your still misplaced ? Did you lose your job because the place where you worked is somewhere in the Atlantic ocean? Glad your happy.....

No, but two family members and a tons of friends have lost their homes and cars and going thru hoops with FEMA, so please don't judge me.

Hey Christie stay home at Trenton and work on a NJ tax credit for sandy victims.

$32 mil. That's a lot of cheeseburgers.

He's fat.

why not use the 32 million by going up and down the local streets of Ortley and give the people the difference between what insurance gave them and what the builders want to repair the homes? This way everyone can come back home. Gone will be the problem of losing tax money. Use the money by hiring a company or a few to lift the homes to the new code so people can come back home! not such a hard problem on how to spend the money when you really want to help the local people. Giving free hats to open up Home Depot seems foolish when you have no home to hang your hat in.

i got all my flood money from my ins. company. tryed to put it in the bank and i couldn't because the mortgage co. name on the check. call them and they said you have to send the checks to us. i said no way because they want to give me some money and give it to me in little sums. thats bullshit already spent a lot of money out of pocket, and what they want to give me don't even come close. how are we to rebuild our homes if they won't give us the money. been doing all the work myself and the mortgage co. said thats a different story. now have to have a bank inspection. people don't give your checks to your mortgage co. have them come out and inspect the house and then sign off on them. this hole process sucks.

Suz this is what this site is all about leaving comments, if you want to quell american citizens from being able to leave a comment they have yhe tight to leave then maybe you should consider taking your COMMIE/FACIST agenda and move to North Korea

Chief try not to be too rude, seems lynne is the sensitive liberal type ..lol

Lavallette hardware and Seaside Lumber both in business on the island for many years also have to rebuild after Sandy. If this Home Depot is not just a design center or something like it and actually sells wood, hardware paint etc etc I wonder what the competition from this new Home Depot will do to their business. I hope this doesnt ruin them.

Hey Capo they won't ruin them. They'll just gorge the area until the FEMA/ins $ is gone them they'll leave here. And we'll be back on our own again.

How many homes that are still sitting in the River or washed away in the Ocean on one sitting on top of another are starting the foreclosure process already ??/
@ Candy, our family as many...lost personal property & a vehicle,
My husband & I both have worked since we where 15 paying taxes & now 48 & 52 still working ( that support FEMA) we where denied our claim for about $4,000.... tell me the taxes we have paid have not covered what we lost? Sure nothing compared to many, but still have losses, Our homeowners insurance Iam waiting to see how high that's going up & living about 2 blocks from the river just waiting to hear that I'am going to need flood insurance... If that is the case we will HAVE to sell our home. As I'am sure other people will be following along... Something Needs to be done QUICK or the year round residents will be demolished & the year round revenue will be depleted ...

I guess " restore the shore" means just that.. not the neighborhoods, not the peoples homes, or the things they have lost, we still cry, we are still homeless we are still counting on the kindness of our family & friends.
The Storm changed the landscape forever, or Gvmt, has changed the people let us all remember the LACK of support & who was REALLY here for us ... Who said they would be and aren't...

Is he bringing his wife and her check book for the relief fund?

Received payment from our homeowners' insurance for Sandy damage (less deductible, etc.) of $145. When the renewal policy came, there was an increase of $526, which is a 32% increase. I can't wait to be extorted by our flood insurance company.

145.00? that doesn't even cover a weeks worth of groceries/// very sad & i'am SURE you had to jump hoops & run backwards to get that... very sad.

Diligently and frequently searching the internet I could only find about 15 home raising contractors doing business in New Jersey. Since my home was on the mainland coast of Barnegat in a non-marquee area I cant even get one person from one of those companies to even come give me an estimate.

The few house raiser contractor there are appear to have divided up areas of operations and if you are not dead center of their agreed to area they are not even going to put you on a waiting list.

I have called the state and have asked them for a list of licensed home raisers. The state told me that they can’t do that because there is no specialized license for home rising. They do not know how many house raising specialist there are currently in State.

The person I talked to at the state just kept not believing me when I told them there were only a handful of house raises in NJ. I think they may be keeping this quiet to prevent the politicians from getting a black eye by agreeing to the new flood zones before realizing that New Jersey just does not have the assets available in the private sector to raise all the houses even within a 10 year time.

This might be bigger than an oversight I think this information may perhaps be purposefully being quashed and downplayed because of how damaging politically it may be.

Remember Folks his wife is hiring the Gov friends at $160,000 to give out the $32,000,000, She says that is far less than what other people get for the same job.

I wonder if anyone will have to balls to drive him through Ortley to see how much "Red Tape" has been cut and look at ALL the progress here. He might want to see Ortley, after all............ Johnny Fries is open.

Home Depot- Well this is for future re-election donations I am sure. With all the suffering although when the oil was leaking all over the gulf the Pres was golfing,partying and vacationing ,I thought how could this man do this with such a catastrophic event. Then Sandy The Gov Partying in New Orleans and at the Super Bowl on TV, Next at parties at the White House all While people are suffering . So you see there is no difference Between the parties as long as they get what they want. I no longer belong to any party after what I see Christie doing. He has let me and my family down. You all didn't for get about the oil or did you another Government screw up. Please do not say it was just the oil co. Things are getting sader by trhe day.

Thank you Candy & Gerry. Where is the help for families with children who have been displaced and homes/belongings destroyed? There is only help if you are at the proverty level. Well guess what, by the time we are done paying to rebulid and raise our home, we will be at the poverty level. Not to mention the time off from work to try to manage this mess that has impacted our jobs. Where is all the Sandy relief going? Certainly not to real families or indivduals living in the ghost town of Ortley.

Hats and lunch LOL and only for the first 100 People boycott this place today . Starting Today . and everyday after . Hats and Lunch . Wow what a complete inslut to local . Like the Board walk lets just keep our eyes on brass rings and Not the real problem Christie is allowing in the State hes being treated like a freshman in Washington. Still homeless displaced empty streets empty dreams and one answer get out town is basically what there saying , whats next kissing babies photo opps .
Oh course there opening a home depot and it probly got huge tax incentives to do so . Im just wondering who the hell can use it with no money being paid out .

ortley full timer, i run a business in ocean county ( restoration firm) and i was up in ortley recently giving some estimates, and it is incredible what i have seen, roadways packed with sand and garbage still!!! , houses destroyed, and looks like a bomb hit the place, is this because the insurance companies are taking forever to compensate these home owners? im sure it can't be because the homeowners just don't care, your take on what is taking so long for restoration?.....JRC

Oh boy a Home Depot in Seaside Heights, this is news? why?

I too live in Ortley Beach and yes, it looks like a bomb hit it still...do they really think anyone is going to the beach in OB walking past the devastated homes? What a shame they put the emphasis on "hurray, Home Depot is coming to town"! What about supporting the small businesses trying to get up and running with no corporate backing? Homeowners fighting the insurance company and then being held hostage by the mortgage company? How about trying to rebuild and being told the utilities companies can't do shutoff letters for 4 -6 weeks? How come the politicians don't give a rat's ass about any of this?

I would love to see Christie do a cannonball of the partly destroyed Casino Pier, CAN YOU SAY TIDAL WAVE lol

Wow! Do not go to the Home Depot . Go to seaside lumber, lavalette hardwear or even Ken's hard wear on fisher blvd!! Maybe they will give you break for using them! Just ask! The gov should take a walk around Ortley!!

Maybe Chrsitie should have contacted local hardware stores. There is one in SH and what about Lavallette Hardware. He could have asked them to be part of this ...whatever this event is...and it would have been great for them as well as all other mom and pop local businesses that had Sandy Damage like Lavallette Hardware. BOYCOTT THE HOME DEPOT. I actually contacted them after Sandy to see if they offered a discount to Sandy Victims and both them and Lowes said NO.

I deal with ALL the local small guys first, Kens being my 1 st choice simply because they are the closest , and Frank is a fair guy to deal with....Home Depot /Lowes for larger orders, land scape supplies and appliances..Support your local family /tax paying neighbors , they have been there for you for years.....mom & pops are scarce these days...support 'em

HOME DEPOT OFFERED NO DISCOUNT TO SANDY VICTIMS AFTER THE STORM. SUPPORT LOCAL HARDWARE STORES WHEN THEY NEED IT MOST.

Don't blame Christie for everything....can you imagine if we still had Corzine!

just because you're fat doesn't mean you're dumb

Take a ride up to some of the private beaches ...."It's easier to rant and rave....realistically they are more concerned about their views and crummy private beaches then the safety of the entire town" ...our dunes were there pre-sandy and rebuilt at our expense....talk to TR and ask why they never built dunes and quit blaming the private beach owners...by the way, our beaches are not crummy, they are quite clean and well maintained, by its association, not TR. Know the truth before you rant and rave.

Someone should see if Boss Gilmore the republican chairman of Ocean County and Seaside Hts. attorney is on the Home Depot payroll? He was on the Ashbritt payroll for clean up, and Walmart for the new Manchester location.

Wow they have expanded into commerical endorsements ,,they really be raking it in off this storm...guessing they wont be cash shy when the Lots go up for sale ...

Maybey lowes will out do homedepot and have bonjovi there. Another crock of sh t fundraiser.

First line in this article says " Home Deport exhibition in Seaside ", Maybe a good story for another article. Round em up!

If the Gov really wants tp rebuild the Barrier Island then force those 79 beach front property owners to sign the easements. So the USACE dunes can be built and we all can rebuild our homes to reasonable building standards. Call and tell the Gov no votes for him in Nov unless the USACE dunes are constructed.

My only comment about Home Depot is that I know for a fact, that they organized and sent teams of employees (and paid them) to conduct clean up efforts on the barrier island that you all seem to be referring to.

If the dunes are built and factored in as obstructions to wave propagation in the model being used to develop the preliminary maps, they will contribute to adjustments in zones and elevations.. Further, each and every municipality that is going to be affected by new FIRM maps should have their engineers/flood plain managers working on having the very best experts available identifying bulkheads, buildings, vegetation , etc that would serve as obstructions to wave propagation. This will be the only opportunity to do so, so it is of critical importance to ease the crippling effect on the ever diminishing tax base and economy overall. Write, call, or email your local officials and demand that this issue is vigorously addressed.

I don't mean to sound disrespectful or insensative; but I am tired of hearing about Seaside and their boardwalk rebuilding. What about Brick, Bayville and TR? There's money to rebuild the barrier island but where are the funds to put residents back into their homes ? I know the island brings revunue to the state but does anyone really think they are going to make a killing this summer? Do you really think people will vacation at the JS this year ? You will only see the day trippers. And what will they purchase for the day ? Lunch/dinner maybe. I think Seaside is in for a rude awakening. Hope I'm wrong.

For all of you who had something to say about my comment...first of all, I also am suffering from Sandy thru my family members. Yes, it is very frustrating and I do understand. I apologize to those of you who think I meant to "keep your comments to yourselves"...I did't realize that it came across wrong and as argumentative. I just feel that Christie is trying to help and I do respect his ability to try to do so.

The Home Depot is just a design center, they have no stock. We can all continue to pay high prices for quick material or take the long drive to depot, lowes, allied, whichever you choose. I drove by lavallette hardware on the way out, they have 4 large containers on site, I'm pretty sure they are doing just fine...

My community has not signed the easement, and I don't believe we will.

I've said it before and I'll say it again... If you live near an airport you're going to hear airplanes. Translated - if you live blocks from the ocean or the bay you're gonna get wet... at some point in time. Sandy was your time !! Somebody who lives in Morristown could care less about the storm damage to Ortley or Seaside or any other town along the Shore....but their Home Owner Ins rates will go up too... why? because virtually every Insurance company will pay Sandy damage...obviously not all that they should pay... JUST SAYIN!!!!

I just heard this morning that the Home Depot in Seaside is a bit different than one might think. Its more like an office that helps planning and takes orders. I admit I havent been there or seen it. If thats the case , then maybe there wont be a huge impact on the local stores. It would be a shame . These local guys are part of the landscape and deserve our support.

here's some other info regarding the Home Depot which is being dubbed a Satellite store;

http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2013/03/satellite_home_depot_store_ope.html

Nothing like announcing this today, last minute.

All I received from FEMA when I called was a "oh its a second home sorry click"

This has nothing to do with the article but here goes. After months of battle with the ins. co., which almost put me in the psycho ward, we finally rec'd. our settlement check. I almost fainted when I saw the amount. It was $5,000 less than what we wanted. The impact of sandy and the aftermath will be with us forever; but we can move on with ourlives, or try. We are not rebuilding as I can't go thru this again. Ever !

WD, congrats to you and your family. We also got our claim check, almost 5 months. I could have given birth. We too got close to the amt. we wanted, our neigbor too. We're not rebuilding either, will never be the same here. It seems alot of people are moving to other states. unfortunately the night mare of sandi will come to my grave wit me.

I was on the "demo, cut my losses and move on" bandwagon for awhile but something just really bothered me about that. Despite all the politics and BS the jersey shore and it's people have given me and my family more good memories than this one bad long one. It might be dumb but I am going to do everything I can to be part of the Renaissance of the jersey shore, My kids and grandkids deserve it. It will be a long time and work but I know there will be a sweet reward reward when the dust settles. I guess I'm putting my Jersey Strong bumper sticker where my mouth is...

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Home Depot & Lowe's will donate to his campaign(s) as thanks for the free advertising. Meanwhile, the masses suffer. The gov. blindly acquiesced to FEMA's erroneous maps, over-reaching elevation mandates and exorbitant annual premiums, and we suffer. Tens of thousands who can't afford them will abandon homes or go into foreclosure -- but the gov. expects our votes to put him in free housing at 1600 Pennsy. Ave. It won't happen, just like his "Jersey comeback."