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Home come down. it's just how sad that it's being destroyed, that we couldn't save it. >> reporter: of the 520 homes here in mantaloking, 56 of them washed away the night the storm struck. so many of them uninhabitable being torn down one after the next. all tolled sandy took 40% of the homes in the town and now the beach eroded, it offers little protection from future storms. >> most people want to rebuild but the reluctance will be because of the guarantee of protection from future storms. >> reporter: they are talking with quadrupling the beach. >> this town will not survive another series ...

You need good weather and you need people. >> the owner of lucky leo's is depending on it. >> this is where i make 100% of my money on is on this boardwalk. >> the problem is many people have no homes to come back to. just down ocean avenue, not one house spared. >> tears come to my eye every time i drive up and down route 35. >> famous for images like this. >> supports gave way, the porch dropped down and it tilted the house toward the ocean. >> for this couple, it's just too much. >> if we could have rehabbed it, absolutely we would have done it. it's just, it's too broken. >> this week, the...

Boardwalk's businesses will open by this weekend. all they need now. >> people. i mean, you need good weather and you need people. >> the owner of lucky leo's is depending on it. >> this is where i make 100% of my money is right here on this boardwalk. >> but the problem is many of the people have no homes to come back to. just down ocean avenue in mantoloking, not one house spared. >> i just look and tears come to my eye every time i drive up and down route 35 and look at those houses. >> famous for images like this. bill and leuie lost the home they'd lived in for decades. >> supports gave w...