I spoke too soon yesterday. Shortly after 6:00 last night, our power started going on and off again, every few minutes. Just as we were starting to prepare dinner, the power went out. The Stove wouldn't light, so we had an unplanned barbecue. It is still out at home, but we have power here in the office.
There is still flooding in this area. A portion of Readington Road (County Route 637), which is my access to US 22, buckled because it was undercut by flood waters. One lane was open, and construction was under way, and I made it into Somerville without incident or delay. The Somerset County Court House is closed, as are others throughout the state. We are still is a mess, with lost of closed and flooded roads. The apartment building a few hundred yards from our office was evacuated, and is still closed. This storm -- and the warnings -- were never about wind velocity. It was always a question of the amount of water and the coastal and river flooding. That has proved quite damaging in New Jersey, at least. A lot of people have been evacuated and still cant return. A substantial percentage of the homes are still out of power. Roads are still closed because of flooding and flood damage. The rivers are still rising in parts of the state. The warnings were appropriate. Dan Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Ann Sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > > > On 8/29/2011 04:27, David Mann wrote: >> >> On Aug 29, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> >>> Well, we'll just have to disagree on this one. I believe it was indeed much >>> ado about very little. >> >> I'm not surprised it seems this way. > > From what I saw it looked like they were expecting a lot worse than what > actually happened. > With Katrina in their minds they would not have wanted to screw > this up as doing so would guarantee losing the next election. > Except the our Mayor is in his last term... he isn't running again. Of > course Chris Christy in NJ is another matter... > >>> The federal government declared New York a disaster area before it was a >>> disaster area >> >> > >> I did wonder about that :) > > I wonder if it's a procedural thing as making declarations > like that can free up certain sources of funding, > give extra legal powers, allow civil defence / > the armed forces / national guard to be mobilised, and all that sort of thing. >> >> Cheers, >> Dave >> >> > I actually didn't know it was that technically - but yes let us do remember > Katrina where the government really screwed up a lot. > > OF course, I'm in NYC and having been in a situation where knowing all this > stuff ahead of time really did matter one thing now occurs to me since there > is a bit of grousing about the coverage... > > Didn't really know (and still don't) that the whole world was getting > um saturated with TMI about it - we who live here in the path appreciated it > And they did it without commercials, too. > > ann > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
