It was nine days after Hurricane Sandy hit.

It was the presidential election of the year 2012. Most in the Rumson-Fair Haven area were without electricity and heat. There was a curfew.

Things were tough. People were making due in a sort of camping-meets-apocalypse atmosphere.

Sea Bright residents were booted out of their town by a storm with a bad attitude.

They had nowhere to live, much less vote.

In a surprisingly high voter turnout year, they filed in and out of the Fair Haven firehouse all day long on Nov. 7 to cast their votes.

Streets in Rumson and Fair Haven bordering polling places were lined with cars. Voters remained undaunted by Sandy’s wrath.

So, the Retro Pic of the Day honors those voters in 2012 who, in spite of Sandy, got the vote out.

This photo is of two young Rumson-Fair Haven volunteers who checked voters in and saw it all.

Do you recognize these cheery poll workers of 2012?

— Elaine Van Develde