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Gale storm headed for my little Margate, Hudson, Bergen

Photo Credit: weather.com

UPDATE: The Little Ferry circle’s flooded, 1/9 at Secaucus Road is closed. All of Staten Island and parts of Hoboken, New York City and Long Island have been or are being evacuated. We’re in for a soggy night and a long Sunday in North Jersey. Still, it’s nothing like what Atlantic City’s getting.

COURTESY: weather.com


CLIFFVIEW PILOT EXCLUSIVE REPORT: Massive power outages and flooding will likely continue past midnight tonight, as New York runoff swells the already overflowing Hackensack River, Pascack Brook and area reservoirs, making an already bad situation much worse, Bergen County leaders told mayors and other government officials during a 15-minute emergency conference call this afternoon. READ MORE ….

What’s known for sure: A storm surge of 4 to 8 feet above ground level will smack the Jersey Coast overnight.

Trace a fairly straight line northeast along the Jersey coast and you’ll see how Bergen, Hudson and areas above will get popped not only with winds of 55 to 75 miles an hour but also up to a foot of rain.


UPDATE (4 a.m.): With the Pascack Brook overflowing its bank, Hillsdale flood alarms have sounded twice since 1:45. Several blocks are being flooded — among them, Grand and Park avenues, Church Street, Reservoir Road. “Small branches are down on our street,” said Tracy Feely Glock of Washington Township, just below the Woodcliff Lake reservoir. “The kids and I are all set up in the basement just in case. We have water pouring in through our fuse box already.” READ MORE….



Bergen ordinarily floods at 3 inches. It’s worse in Westwood, Hillsdale and other low-lying areas. August’s record rainfall has weakened tree roots, which could mean not only the risk of damage but severe power outages.

The worst is to come tomorrow morning – just about the same time an inordinately high tide is expected.

And get this: A tornado wouldn’t be a surprise.

If ever there was a situation that fit Gov. Christie’s style, this is it.

“If I order a mandatory evacuation, you better leave,” he said earlier today. “If it turns out to be less, we should thank our lucky stars.”

All told, nearly 1 million people have been shuttled off Long Beach Island and just about all of Cape May and Atlantic counties. And AC’s casinos are all closing for only the third time since gambling there was legalized in 1978.

With good reason: Hurricane Irene is making a beeline for Atlantic City – with winds of 80 miles an hour.

Up this way, Hoboken bars were ordered to stop serving alcohol at 8 o’clock. Helmer’s (pictured), among others, intends to keep serving food as long as possible.

(NOTE: I shudder recalling what some said about New Orleans getting socked because of sin. Not again.)

Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer ask everyone to leave voluntarily and ordered those with basement apartments out. Jersey City Mayor Jeremiah Healy said he’s considering area evacuations but planned to wait a bit to see how things play out.

New Jersey Transit: No trains. Period.

Irene is tracking toward the New York metropolitan area, with predictons that the eye will pass directly over Barnegat and Toms River. Last time a hurricane made landfall around here? 98 years ago.

Irene is then supposed to bank toward New York, just like a LaGuardia-bound jet from Miami. In fact, the Rockaways and all of the Jamaica Bay islands, near JFK, have all be ordered evacuated.

It’s the same for all of the Brooklyn waterfront, and for the southern tip of Manhattan east of Pearl Street and West of the West Side Highway, including all of Battery Park City. New York City subways close at noon Sunday.

Thousands of flights have been cancelled at all five major New York-area airports. And although the Port Authority is keeping the bridges and tunnels open, for now, PATH service stopped this afternoon.

Canaries in a coal mine: More than a million people in North Carolina and Virginia are without power. Ironically, meteorologists say there’s no longer need to worry in Cape Fear.

In one North Carolina town, a large limb that blew off a tree crushed a man. An 11-year-old boy in Virginia was killed when a tree crashed through his window. Another reported death involved a tree that fell onto a car.

In case you didn’t notice: It hit nearly 108 degrees in parts of Texas today.




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