Irene....how did u guys hold up??

[CageFighter 236]

So...how did all you make out with Irene? My parents in Hawthorne never lost power and my brothers house in LI just lost power, no flodding. Hope all are well! The pics you guys posted are great, but sad at the same time.

 

We left for Myrtle Beach on Thurs nt and we missed it all. Just real bad winds/rain down here, etc. As for me, I just packed my G19 and left all the other toys @ home bc of room in truck. (6pl in 1 SUV) We have had great weather since Sat morning.

[Jon 264]

My parents house still has no power, PSEG estimates are by Sept 4. My house in Somerset never lost power, and the only sign of a storm was a few downed branches. We made out far better than a lot of places.

[Dan 177]

No damage, just a mess. Without power now since Saturday night. I have a genny, but its only 110v, so can't run the electric appliances nor the hot water heater (all electric house , no gas).

 

Seems the power company is telling everyone 5-7 days as their standard pitch as that seems to be the worst case wait, this way if they have it fixed in 2-3 days they look good. I hope so anyway!

[lunker 274]

I came back from my mini honeymoon in Hilton Head South Carolina just in time for us to start prepping for the storm. We haven't had power in Atlantic Highlands since about midnight Saturday.

The weather was beautiful in South Carolina. The storm completely missed the southern part of the state.

[Maksim 1,504]

All is ok at home, fine at the office, except no power since whenever?

[Krdshrk 3,877]

GF's house in Linden - No damage, no floods, no power outages, wireless internet and satellite TV works. She lives on a main street.

 

My condo in New Brunswick - same thing except I have no cable TV/Internet/Phone.....

[hd2000fxdl 422]

Made out ok at my place, 1 piece of trim blew off but no other damage, even kept power through the whole storm, I feel very lucky being some didn't do as well in the area. At work now but will be home fixing my little bit of damage and then help my neighbors with theirs.

 

Harry

[Sigman 41]

Made out ok, I kept a pump running outside the house to get water away from it. I got some water in the basement. The lights flickered a couple of times but no power loss. I thought for sure we were going to loose power since I heard about five transformers blow up.

 

The towns below me (Bloomindale, Wayne, Pompton Plains) got hit pretty bad. Lots of flooded roads. Places I've never seen flooded got flooded out.

 

The northbound side of 287 near booton had a section of the highway fall off. It looked like a tractor trailer size piece of the righthand lane was missing. The northbound side was closed off this morning.

[Malsua 1,422]

 

 

The northbound side of 287 near booton had a section of the highway fall off. It looked like a tractor trailer size piece of the righthand lane was missing. The northbound side was closed off this morning.

 

I heard that on the radio. Where did the road "fall off" to? 287 north of 80 is often below the sound barriers and rock walls.

[alowerlevel 77]

Wasnt bad here around Camden, just alot of rain and some maybe 40 mph winds. Power flickered a few times but never went out, I ended up staying up all nite and got drunk

[71ragtopgoat 23]

Made out great. But part of my town got hit(by the Ramapo river) hard.Lost nothing but time.

[Fishpaw 17]

Not much damage at all. Lots of leaves and sticks down. No power since storm. Gas stove works fine but have to light by match. Fridge and freezer may be a total loss at this point

[Malsua 1,422]

Well, here's our guard units, they didn't make out so well.

 

[tripcarl 0]

minor flooding in basement and lost power due to a neighbor's tree coming down in NW Bergen County. The part that sucks is that 1 tree knocked out power to 40-60 houses. Makes me wonder if the whole power grid is pathetic.

[EchoMirage 137]

My sump pump **** the bed. Wouldn't have been that bad if it didn't die. Had two inches or so in basement. My grandmothers house still has 4 feet of water in it

[hiker88 22]

just got a call from home... we just got power back in East Brunswick. Plenty of fallen trees all over.

[DevsAdvocate 112]

No damage, just lost power at about 6am Sunday and have yet to get it back. JCP&L called all of us to let us know that power for hanging wire customers will be restored by nightfall. The rest of us using underground power are s.o.l.

[raz-0 1,259]

Lost power briefly probably a dozen or more times. Got about a gallon of water in the basement due to a newer unpatched crack. Wind pulled a gutter away from the roof causing all the water to be dumped in the middle of the kitchen roof, which caused a leak in the kitchen.

 

So at the very least nead to patch the roof and patch the ceiling.

[Jimbo1911 0]

All good here.Power flicked twice.Just a few small branches came down.All in all a uneventful storm for me.

[mikeyboyeee 66]

just got a call from home... we just got power back in East Brunswick. Plenty of fallen trees all over.

 

Mine came back on at 5pm in EB yesterday.

 

At 6pm I could not get to rte 9 from rte 18. had to go all the way up rte 1 then to 9.

 

never seen that before.

[bbk 188]

Passed without any damage or power outages in my specific area. Other side of town got hit hard with flooding. Surrounding towns got hit with flooding and power outages. There was a scare with the water, though I believe that to be resolved for the most part. I think my town was being careful because of Highstown's issues with contaminated water.

 

The Rt 18 issue concerns me slightly as classes start at Rutgers this coming Thursday, and it would be preferable if 18 was available for use when that madness begins. Last I heard, the water level is suppose to get even higher tonight with the cyclic rising of the waters. Hopefully, it dries out quick between tonight/tomorrow and Thursday.

[Krdshrk 3,877]

Passed without any damage or power outages in my specific area. Other side of town got hit hard with flooding. Surrounding towns got hit with flooding and power outages. There was a scare with the water, though I believe that to be resolved for the most part. I think my town was being careful because of Highstown's issues with contaminated water.

 

The Rt 18 issue concerns me slightly as classes start at Rutgers this coming Thursday, and it would be preferable if 18 was available for use when that madness begins. Last I heard, the water level is suppose to get even higher tonight with the cyclic rising of the waters. Hopefully, it dries out quick between tonight/tomorrow and Thursday.

 

Yeah - my bus to NYC this morning had to detour through Douglas campus. Since you're coming up from the southwest, come up route 1 and go up Jersey ave. That's how I got home last night.

[Malsua 1,422]

I heard that on the radio. Where did the road "fall off" to? 287 north of 80 is often below the sound barriers and rock walls.

 

[JackDaWack 2,895]

WHHHAAAAT!!!! no way! that's insane! the guard rail is the only thing that made it.

[hiker88 22]

Mine came back on at 5pm in EB yesterday.

 

At 6pm I could not get to rte 9 from rte 18. had to go all the way up rte 1 then to 9.

 

never seen that before.

 

What was scary was the timing of the power outage... there was an EAS - announcement for a Tornado warning and lights went out. I had to scramble for a battery powered radio to check what was going on.

 

BTW, 101.5 did an excellent coverage of the hurricane in NJ. A couple of drunk callers also made for a good comedy relief in the early morning of Sunday.

[KpdPipes 388]

Couple of dozen branches down, and about 8" of water in my crawlspace. Otherwise no damage.

[Dan 177]

Power restored here on the Matawan/Old Bridge border... around 4pm. Genny goes back to sleep, hopefully for a long long time.

[tankcommander 4]

First off those Guard guys were just plain stupid. Those trucks were never meant for that.

 

I had a foot and a half of water in my basement and no power for 36 hours came back a few hours ago. The most annoying thing was 5 houses away came back yesterday. Water heater , washer , dryer, freezer all under water, but freezer works water heater relit have to mess with the dryer and furnace. A good friend answered our call for help with a submersible pump and a generator.

 

 

 

TC

[CageFighter 236]

Glad to hear most of you fared well against the storm.

[hd2000fxdl 422]

Lost power briefly probably a dozen or more times. Got about a gallon of water in the basement due to a newer unpatched crack. Wind pulled a gutter away from the roof causing all the water to be dumped in the middle of the kitchen roof, which caused a leak in the kitchen.

 

So at the very least nead to patch the roof and patch the ceiling.

 

 

Not a guy who likes heights (yea I know doesn't make sense being a hang glider pilot) but if you need some help let me know, I'm just over in Towne Lake.

 

Harry