6:15 p.m. UPDATE: Piles of wood are starting to wash up all along the boardwalk as Sandy's surge continues to rush water into the streets of seaside heights. While its unclear exactly where the debris is coming from, some residents in Seaside Park said it appears more of the Funtown Pier has collapsed.

Several entry ramps to the beach also appear to have splintered from the surge, and a wash of wreckage ranging from shattered surfboards to cinder b locks is now floating alongside and under the boardwalk.

SEASIDE HEIGHTS — About 50 feet of the Funtown Pier at Seaside Heights Boardwalk has collapsed and washed up on the beach as a pile of wooden beams and twisted fencing.

The collapse, which happened within the last hour, caused no injuries, according to Seaside Park Police Chief Frances Larkin.

Flood waters continue to surge throughout the island from over and under the boardwalk, though the winds have died down in the past twenty minutes as Sandy makes landfall in southern New Jersey. Larkin said the damage to the pier was the most significant damage on the island so far today, but several light poles also crashed on the Mathis Bridge, closing several lanes of the roadway that leads off the island and into Toms River.

Evacuation operations ceased around 3 p.m., according to Larkin, who said most of the police department has left and only Office of Emergency Management personnel remain.

For Larkin, the pier collapse is just the beginning of a very long night.

"I'm not going anywhere till it's over," he said.