This Atlantic City Boardwalk fire from 2009 is just one of many that have plagued the tourist attraction over the years november.
The last thing this New Jersey town needed was any proximity at all to yet another disaster with casino revenues already largely in the toilet for the majority of Atlantic City’s land casinos, and the gambling town still recovering from last year’s devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy which shut down many of the city’s casinos for days. Along with last week’s horrific Boardwalk fire in the Seaside Heights area perhaps not directly attached to AC, but along the same 217-mile stretch of Atlantic shoreline that is frequented by most of the same tourists and locals one can’t help but wonder if Atlantic City may likewise require an exorcist or to put bloodstream on its casino walls for the passover associated with the evidently ongoing plagues which are being doled out from on high.
Or possibly, wooden boardwalks while charming whenever built 150 years ago are merely not really a safe building material in the world that is modern. Fire professionals are, in fact, now saying the fire that is destructive to have been a bout of arson, although the inspiration is unclear.
New Jersey’s Governor Chris Christie, upon visiting the fire scene that destroyed boardwalk that is many, referred to it as an ‘unthinkable situation’. It took significantly more than (altro…)