Name: How a Shore Town Gets Ready for a Storm | Caleb Stratton, Atlantic Highlands
Uploaded: 2026-09-26
Description: Borough administrator of Atlantic Highlands, and New Jersey's first chief resilience officer — he helped lead Hoboken's recovery after Sandy. Recorded the night before a nor'easter met a king tide, on how a shore town plans for the water that is coming rather than the water that already came. The first in a continuing series on coastal resilience.

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Title card for the film — "Coastal Resilience · A Conversation with Caleb" set over a sunset beach on the bayshore, surf running in and the Manhattan skyline low on the horizon.

29 min Recorded 26 September 2026 Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey

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Borough administrator of Atlantic Highlands, and New Jersey's first chief resilience officer — he helped lead Hoboken's recovery after Sandy. Recorded the night before a nor'easter met a king tide, on how a shore town plans for the water that is coming rather than the water that already came. The first in a continuing series on coastal resilience.

Recorded: 2026-09-26
Interviewer: Eric Kane
Where: Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey
Related chapters: The Sea Takes Back

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