A year after Sandy, rebuilding continues in storm-hit towns

SEASIDE PARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - A year after Superstorm Sandy inundated the East Coast with record flooding that left 159 people dead, residents of the hard-hit New Jersey shore still have a ways to go in rebuilding damaged communities.

The state's governor, Chris Christie, began his day at the beach town of Seaside Park, where homes were flooded by two to three feet (60-90 cm) of water when the storm roared ashore, and faced another disaster this September when wiring damaged by the flooding sparked an enormous fire that destroyed several blocks of boardwalk that had been rebuilt after Sandy.