New York Times: THE Jersey Shore is waiting for the Big One. It has been awhile since a major storm hit here, and there’s a feeling that we’re due. Every year brings dire predictions: global warming, El Niño, a few more named storms. The coast is always vulnerable, and it’s easy to imagine Nature ridding herself of those palaces thoughtlessly built on barrier islands or at the edge of the mainland dunes. There is plenty of precedent. Not everyone is old enough to remember the hurricanes of …