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April 19, 2011 7:03 AM
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New Jersey Flooding (credit: CBS 2)
WAYNE, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — As flood-prone areas of New Jersey began drying
out Tuesday, angry residents of flooded areas called again on New Jersey’s
leaders to do more to keep their roads and homes dry.
Flood-weary folks in Wayne are used to keeping a close eye on the now-
receding Passaic River, but once again flood waters have made their lives
miserable.
One man in Little Falls had to wade down his street to rescue his mother.
Marta Rojas just replaced her basement appliances after last month’s
flooding waters. Now they’re soaked again.
“The pilot light in my furnace went off already and the hot water heater. I
just got them three weeks ago,” she said.
The state has already said it’s about to spend more than a million dollars
dredging the communities around the Passaic River basin. Residents said it’
s about time.
“There’s nothing we can do unless we move,” said Arlind Ibrhaimi.
12 Comments
wiredheart
One word can solve your flood problems- MOVE.
NJ where you are is a low lying area and as such will collect any all runoff
from the surrounding higher elevation areas either from heavy rains or
melting snows.
I’m sure that the native North American Indians were smart enough NOT to
live in those areas.
April 19, 2011 at 8:43 am | Reply | Report comment
jarett
the only reason you were able to buy your home was becuase no one else
wanted to live in a flood zone..don’t complain and beg for taxpayer money
whenever it rains..move and take your loss
April 19, 2011 at 8:37 am | Reply | Report comment
jame
I live in a flood zone and I get excited(happy) every time there is a flood.
There is a dreary feeling that comes over the neighborhood and all of my
neighbors walk around the neighborhood like zombies watching the water rise.
Call me twisted if you want, but I get a kick out of it.
April 19, 2011 at 8:37 am | Reply | Report comment
Paul
These areas have flooded since my father was a kid he is now 84 years old.
The problem is that there is no water shed in this part of the state. Simply
put there is as much or more pavement and roof area as there is open ground
. All of that water drains into the river and is not adsorbed in the ground.
This was poor planning years ago by local governments choosing to increase
property tax revenue over sensible expansion. No we will have to pay for
there mistakes either by trying to manage nature or pay to relocate those in
the worst flooding areas.
April 19, 2011 at 8:36 am | Reply | Report comment
Tom
Once again people having no clue what they are talking about. I live in
Wayne in the flood zone, and it never used to flood this bad. There is a
flood buyout program, however there is only so much money to buy so many
houses, and there are thousands of people effected in the area and
surrounding towns. There simply isn’t enough money, you can’t sell because
of the bad flooding history since 2007, before then you could sell no
problem, no one will buy now with what happened in the last 4 years. I asked
Fema last year to buy me out instead of playing for repairs as I had 18″
of water in my living room, they said NO!!! So have some sense, some people
are just stuck with no way out right now. When you ask why it floods so bad?
? Answer: Politics
April 19, 2011 at 8:46 am | Reply | Report comment | r**********9
发帖数: 894 | 2 Thanks for sharing.
it is horrible to buy a house with flooding problems.
Wayne nj constantly has flooding problems and the property tax there is high
. | c******z
发帖数: 1230 | 3 我们整个TOWN基本上都是flood zone，那怎么办。。。。 | l*****o
发帖数: 26631 | | a**i
发帖数: 608 | 5 今年NJ的雨水实在太多了；
好多河边的公园，树林都淹了。
一个月前去 Fairfield， Little Falls 一带，
80号公路旁好多房子泡在水里
N.J. weekend nor'easter leaves flood waters at near historic highs
Published: Sunday, March 14, 2010, 11:39 PM Updated: Monday, March 15,
2010, 5:21 AM
By Amy Ellis Nutt/The Star-Ledger The Star-Ledger
Just weeks after breaking a 130-year-old record for snowfall, the Garden
State buckled under the mid-March nor’easter. Two Teaneck men were killed
Saturday when a tree fell on them. Continued power outages, train delays,
closed roads and swollen rivers had police, utility and emergency medical
personnel scrambling.
Gov. Chris Christie declared a state of emergency tonight, broadening State
Police powers over traffic control, access to hard-hit areas and evacuation
orders.
More rain — a quarter- to a half-inch — is expected through Wednesday, but
it should not be heavy enough to cause additional flooding, according to
the National Weather Service. Winds also are expected to increase through
tonight.
Springlike weather is expected for Thursday through Saturday, with
temperature reached the upper 50s to lower 60s.
As the Raritan River crested more than nine feet above flood level this
afternoon, a local state of emergency was declared in Bound Brook. That
forced the mandatory evacuation of more than 400 residents, who took shelter
in the high school gymnasium and a Presbyterian church.
Borough residents said they had no reason to suspect a deluge Saturday night
, when little rain had fallen. But when they awoke, lakes of water had
invaded their homes and submerged their cars.
“They said it was in a flood zone, but that it doesn’t usually flood,”
Tricia Russomanno, 26, said as she waited out the storm with her husband and
their 19-month-old twins in the lobby of Bound Brook High School.
Morris County officials evacuated some residents in Lincoln Park and
Pequannock, and three Middlesex County towns declared states of emergency.
In Perth Amboy, tides washed out a chunk of the waterfront walkway, and
several roofs could be seen floating in the floodwaters.
“We don’t know what buildings they came from,” emergency management
coordinator Larry Cattano said.
As authorities rushed to clear loose electrical wires from the paths of
emergency vehicles, one public worker cut his leg with a chainsaw as he
extricated a tree from the tangled lines. He returned to work after getting
stitches, Cattano said.
The city also added 20 extra police officers, deploying 14 to direct traffic
on chaotic streets, and several drove around pitch-black neighborhoods with
their lights on to deter criminals.
“No power means no alarms and no streetlights,” Cattano said.
In Manville, which was devastated by Hurricane Floyd in 1999, Main Street
was under water and police requested people to stay out of town.
Stores were closed around the state and in Denville, where much of the
downtown area was darkened, the Rockaway River was just inches from
inundating the Diamond Road Bridge, rebuilt in 2000.
Close to 120,000 PSE&G customers in northern and central New Jersey were
still without electricity today, including some 80,000 in Bergen County.
Atlantic Electric reported 1,972 outages in its area of South Jersey and JCP
&L listed 35,000 outages across its area.
Power to most of its customers will not be restored until Wednesday, said
PSE&G officials, with the remaining homes regaining power by Thursday.
The Middlesex Water Co. issued a 48-hour boil water notice, and United Water
New Jersey also asked its Teaneck customers to boil water after the Haworth
Water Treatment Plant suffered power outages.
Along most of the Shore, flood warnings stayed in effect today as the
boundary between water and land began to blur in coastal communities.
In Seaside Park, Linda Boisseau used a blue ocean kayak to travel on Bayview
Avenue, which lay under a foot of brackish water this afternoon. Dressed in
a purple windbreaker and knee-high rubber boots, she glided over a half-
block to help a neighbor who had not been able to leave the house since the
storm hit.
“Since November, we’ve been flooded 12 times,” said Boisseau, who called
the storm among the five worst she has seen since moving to the borough in
1986.
Statewide, this winter has been the third-wettest in 115 years, dating to
when records were first kept, said David Robinson, state climatologist at
Rutgers.
A good portion of central New Jersey experienced 4 to 6 inches of rain, and
parts of Morris County received as much as 6.8 inches, a one-day total that
nearly equals the state’s record of 7.2 inches for the entire month of
March, set in 1983, according to the New Jersey Weather and Climate Network.
“This winter’s been relentless in terms of storms, but so has the last
decade in the amount of flooding,” Robinson said, citing the 1999 hurricane
and a slow-moving storm that dropped 5 to 7 inches on the state over three
days in April 2007.
He said his sister, who lives in Bergen County, had a tree fall in front of
her. She was frightened, Robinson said, but unharmed.
Authorities identified two men from Teaneck in Bergen County who died
Saturday when an maple tree, uprooted by soaking rain, split and toppled in
the wind. Ovadia Mussaffi, 54, and Lawrence Krause, 49, had just left a
synagogue near their homes when they were killed around 7 p.m.
“Trees falling kill more people in New Jersey than lightning strikes or
floods,” the climatologist said. “People shouldn’t have been out on the
roads today from noon to midnight, or out walking. People have to know how
dangerous it is. We live in a state with a lot of trees.”
After the harrowing winter of cold, snow and rain, there is good news around
the corner for New Jerseyans: Spring begins Saturday.
New Jersey Local News Service reporters Brent Johnson and Eugene Paik and
Star-Ledger staff writers MaryAnn Spoto, Alexi Friedman, Rohan Mascarenhas
and Brian Whitley contributed to this report.
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【在 r**********9 的大作中提到】
: Thanks for sharing.
: it is horrible to buy a house with flooding problems.
: Wayne nj constantly has flooding problems and the property tax there is high
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【在 c******z 的大作中提到】
: 我们整个TOWN基本上都是flood zone，那怎么办。。。。
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