Perhaps when Belmar Mayor Matt Doherty temporarily halted all incoming traffic from Route 35 one day in June, it was a premonition of what was to come.
It was the first time in nearly a decade such a closure was enforced in the borough, and it was partly due to a record-breaking influx of visitors to the popular Jersey Shore summer destination on that day.
And as the Summer of 2015 winds down, Doherty and officials from other popular Shore towns hit hard by Hurricane Sandy are touting record-breaking revenue numbers this season.
Belmar beachgoers enjoyed the sun, sand and surf the Thursday before Labor Day Weekend 2015. (Rob Spahr | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)
"It could not have been better," Doherty said by phone last week. "Our beach revenues are at record-levels and our businesses are doing great. ... We've had more business now than before Sandy."
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