Superstorm Sandy is heavy on the shoulders, and on the heart.

Soaked carpet and padding weighs quite a bit, especially after the twelfth trip to “the pile.” So do wet magazines. Water-logged mattresses weigh much more, as do couches, refrigerators, furniture, boats, floating docks and pieces of lumber.

And my family hadn't yet started to tear up the floor and cut away wet sections of sheetrock when we traveled last Saturday to Brick, NJ to work and take a look at the damage to our summer getaway—which also serves as the home of my grandmother.

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