UPDATE, as of 8:40 a.m. Tuesday — The boardwalk to the south of the fishing pier is badly buckled and railings are torn down. Although the fishing shack has vanished without a trace, the fishing pier itself remains, but with planking and pilings tilted and buckled. The far end of the pier is gone. The beach office and the building next to it also suffered damage.

The cupola that stands between Bradley Beach and Ocean Grove is smashed to smithereens. On the beach south of the pier no vegetation remains; the dunes are gone.  West of the beach, along Fletcher Lake, no damage was seen except that a cupola near St. Francis Asbury Manor has been overturned. Many trees are blown down, as well as power lines. Many Neptune Township trucks are on the scene. — Mary Walton

UPDATE, as of 8:15 a.m. Tuesday — Damage along the oceanfront is…