A New Jersey realty sign that was washed away by Superstorm Sandy has been found nearly six years later, thousands of miles away. 
 
 Diane Turton has been in the realty business for 53 years. Her Diane Turton Realty signs can be found all over the Garden State. She says that one of her signs was found in France. 
 
 “I got an email from our relocation department, who got it from this person, Hans, in Bordeaux,” Turton says. “I thought, ‘Is this a joke?’” 
 
 Diane Turton Realty marketing director Perry Beneduce says that they were able to trace the longitude and latitude of the email that came in and cross-reference it with the person who sent the pictures. Beneduce says that they were able to determine that the sign came from a home in Brielle. 
 
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 “So it went to France?…My God, that’s crazy,” says the homeowner Doug Shaw. 
 
 Shaw says that he never knew about the sign and that he bought the house right after Superstorm Sandy. 
 
 Turton says that she hopes to get the sign returned to her so that she can frame it as a memento. The realty company sent Hans, the man who found the sign, some T-shirts in the hopes that he will agree to send the sign back to New Jersey. 

 Hurricane Sandy wrought havoc on the Jersey Shore town of Brielle when it made landfall in October 2012. 
 
 Homes filled with water. Boats washed up on people’s lawns and on the Brielle Avenue bridge. 
 
 Also, a real estate sign went missing. 
 
 It had been planted in back of a house for sale on Cedarcrest Drive, facing a narrow inlet called Debbie’s Creek. The sign was 18 by 24 inches and about an inch thick and made of plastic composite. It disappeared along with the post it was mounted to and was never seen again. 
 
 Until around May 14, 2018. 
 
 On a beach in France, 3,595 miles away. 
 
 A man walking along the Plage du Pin Sec, near Bordeaux, spotted it. The faded sign was missing a chunk, but he could still read the legend “Diane Turton Realtors 732-292-1400.” 

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– A real estate sign ripped out of a New Jersey yard by Hurricane Sandy in Nov. 2012 was rediscovered almost six years later—and an ocean away. Dianne Turton says one of her Diane Turton Realty signs was found a few weeks ago by somebody in France, more than 3,500 miles away from New Jersey, Westchester News 12 reports. "I got an email from our relocation department, who got it from this person, Hans, in Bordeaux," Turton says. "I thought, 'Is this a joke?'" The company's marketing director says they were able to determine that the sign, which can be seen here, was washed away from outside a home in the town of Brielle. The finder, 64-year-old Hannes Frank, says it was "curious" to find the sign on a Bordeaux beach. He says he looked up the name on the sign and emailed the realtor to let them know it had arrived, though it was "not in best shape after the crossing." He offered to send it back to the realtor, who plans to frame it as a memento. Oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer tells the New York Times that the sign's journey was likely even longer than it might appear. He believes it crossed the Atlantic three times before it was found. "There is a great gyre of water that runs from New Jersey to northern Europe down to Spain and back to New Jersey and takes 3.3 years on average, and it takes about a year and a half to drift across the North Atlantic one way from New Jersey to France," he says. "So five and a half years is just about right."