The ticking of the clock has been drowned out by the hammering of nails and the pounding of pile drivers in many Jersey shore towns racing to finish boardwalk rebuilding projects before Memorial Day weekend and the hoped-for onslaught of summer tourists.
Up and down the shore, communities whose oceanfront walkways were destroyed by Superstorm Sandy are hurrying to finish new ones. And while almost all vow to be ready for the unofficial start of summer in two weeks, some are clearly closer to that goal than others.
