Other stories by Ted Cushman

• Hurricane Sandy: Aftermath

  Along the battered Northeast coast, contractors assess the damage and get to work

• In Sandy Aftermath, Businesses Step Up to Help

  While FEMA has spent or at least authorized hundreds of millions of dollars in relief, the government's resources do have limits.

• New York City Still Struggling to Recover

  Almost six weeks after Hurricane Sandy slammed into New York City, parts of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island are still reeling from the blow.

• Report: Georgia Coast Shows Economic Strength

• Maine Passive House Builder Tweaks His Package

  Chris Corson is working on another Passive House — this time, with a more ample budget, and a more complex design.

• Jersey Shore: "It's Like Somebody Called In an Air Strike."

  Life has changed radically for residents of the New Jersey barrier island towns, and for the contractors who work there.

• Outer Banks: Repairing a Frail Lifeline, Cut by Sandy (Again)

  One of Sandy's impacts is still being felt a month later: the storm cut North Carolina Route 12, the slender link between the barrier island chain and the mainland.

• Sandy's Aftermath: "There are Two Long Islands"

  A few miles inland, where the winds were moderate and the flood waters did not penetrate, life is back to normal for most people. But on the shores, the trouble is just beginning.

• Oh, Can You Get Stucco?

  Buyers recruited at get-rich-quick seminars like this bought Myrtle Beach properties at inflated prices using sketchy documentation, then defaulted, banks alleged.

• South Carolina Economy: Resting on Defense

  South Carolina's coast has some good markets for homebuilding