A New Jersey couple whose beach house was destroyed by a storm 50 years ago has finally been awarded compensation for it, but may appeal the award. Barely two years after Edward and Nancy Klumpp built their beach house in Avalon, the historic storm of 1962 destroyed it along with much of the surrounding beach and dunes. The town took over the property as part of a beach repair project in the mid-1960s and, until a 2010 Supreme Court ruling, had not had to pay for it.
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