I agree. I don't think they ever recovered from , Sandy -2012. All the other states received all the money (state of emergency) promised by Obama... But THEM. Even states with minimal damage filed & received. It was a huge controversy over states with their hand out & New Jersey suffering.
Talk about resentment...

The effects of Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey in 2012 were severe, with economic losses to businesses of up to $30�billion. Hurricane Sandy, the most intense storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, formed in the Caribbean Sea north of Panama on October 22, 2012. As it moved northward, the hurricane degenerated into a still-massive extratropical cyclone and made landfall on New Jersey on October�29.

Over two million households in the state lost power in the storm, 346,000 homes were damaged or destroyed,[2] and 37�people were killed. Storm surge and flooding affected a large swath of the state. Governor Chris Christie said the losses caused by Sandy were "going to be almost incalculable...The devastation on the Jersey Shore is probably going to be the worst we've ever seen."[3
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Effects of Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_Hurricane_Sandy_in_New_Jersey/