the building. when we took out one of the walls, there were comic looks stuffed into the walls. just like insulation. we had a feeling that they were worth something, but we didn't know much about it because i'm not a comic collector. jamie: they put the comic books away and didn't think about them very much. they moved onto other ventures. then they really roll the dice. >> we dropped insurance and it that was because the premiums had gotten so high. >> we were looking at over 30,000 dollars in insurance annually. so we decided to take that money and invest it. some in the stock market and some in other properties. jamie: a decade and a half goes be paying off. and then in the fall of 2012, the family prepared to celebrate five decades on the jersey shore. and as they do, on october 22, a tropical storm in the caribbean