Photos: The Aftermath Of Superstorm Sandy

On Oct. 29, 2012, Superstorm Sandy made landfall in the Tri-State area, causing devastating damage that the region is still recovering from seven years later. 

Two days later, Tom Kaminski went up in the air in Chopper 880 to survey the damage from the sky and what he witnessed was shocking.

“I got a call from the airport, and somebody said we’re able to fly. Our first thought was, well we’re going to just start around the area of Perth Amboy and just hug the coast,” he says. “I looked to where the boardwalk was, and the boardwalk was completely gone – vanished. The only thing that was there were the pilings that the boardwalk had rested on.

“And I went on the air and talked about this, and I started to get choked up, because right in that spot was where I proposed to my wife.

“Not a shred of evidence that it was ever there, that it had ever been there.

“That amount of damage was really, really shocking.”