Boch23 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Fatality reported in Berks County in pike township Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsley Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Fatality reported in Berks County in pike township Ugh.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChescoWx Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Wind continues to howl from the north with light rain continuing - with additional bands of heavy rain possible later here in NW Chesco Rain today 4.04" Storm total so far 4.34 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslotted Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Hopefully, I haven't spoken too soon, but we've been very lucky here tonight. It feels like all hell is breaking loose around (based on everyone's posts), but we've been largely insulated from it somehow. I've gone out in the backyard 4 or 5 times now, and yeah it's windy, but it's not blow me back or blow trees down windy. I've heard a few branches breaking in the woods, but overall pretty meh. I'll take it, having power is a good thing...<knocks wood> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Jims Videos Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Floating homes have closed the mantaloking bridge. From asbury park press. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJHurricane Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Floating homes have closed the mantaloking bridge. From asbury park press. Wow...hope they evacuated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penndotguy Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Fatality reported in Berks County in pike township I believe it was a bldg colapse, I was listening to it on the scanner but lost the feed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boch23 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Any idea what's going on in Toms River? An engine task force from Camden County just got toned out to go to Toms River. Courtesy of NYC forum/ NY times: Dangerous Water Levels at Nuclear Plant Rising water threatened the cooling system at the Oyster Creek nuclear plant, in Toms River, N.J., on Monday night. The plant declared an alert at 8:45 PM, which is the second-lowest level of the four-tier emergency scale established by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The water level was more than six feet above normal. At seven feet, the plant would lose the ability to cool its spent fuel pool in the normal fashion, according to Neil Sheehan, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The plant would probably have to switch to using fire hoses to pump in extra water to make up for evaporation, Mr. Sheehan said, because it could no longer pull water out of Barnegat Bay and circulate it through a heat exchanger, to cool the water in the pool. If ordinary cooling ceased, the pool would take 25 hours to reach the boiling point, he said, giving the operators ample time to take corrective steps. The reactor itself has been shut since Oct. 22 for refueling, so it is relatively cool. Alerts are declared a handful of times every year among the 104 power reactors around the country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaoPos Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 On a generator back up here @ work. Been steady since 6pm. Lotta wires calls... Had a close call on one of them. All is well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Jims Videos Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Dozens and dozens and dozens of water rescues ongoing in toms river area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJHurricane Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Dozens and dozens and dozens of water rescues ongoing in toms river area. Are these police scanner reports Jim? Thanks for the info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaoPos Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Are these police scanner reports Jim? Thanks for the info Police and fire. Listening to the scanner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boch23 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Dozens and dozens and dozens of water rescues ongoing in toms river area. Yeah just heard some people were asked if they wanted to be rescued twice they refused......now they are calling for help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJHurricane Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Police and fire. Listening to the scanner. Thank you all for your efforts as well as relaying info on this increasingly sad situation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokeEater Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Egg Harbor Township Public Works is pushing a houseboat off the Black Horse Pike in West AC with a front end loader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cast4 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 On a generator back up here @ work. Been steady since 6pm. Lotta wires calls... Had a close call on one of them. All is well. Good to see your OK. I was on a wires call once and a FP officer drove his personal vehicle right under the transformer which then proceeded to explode on top of him. He was OK but he gave himself a good scare. Maybe they should give all firecops tac sticks? Anyways, the winds out in the Lancaster area are probably the strongest they have been so far right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJHurricane Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Hopefully, I haven't spoken too soon, but we've been very lucky here tonight. It feels like all hell is breaking loose around (based on everyone's posts), but we've been largely insulated from it somehow. I've gone out in the backyard 4 or 5 times now, and yeah it's windy, but it's not blow me back or blow trees down windy. I've heard a few branches breaking in the woods, but overall pretty meh. I'll take it, having power is a good thing...<knocks wood> Similar conditions here...me and mine are fine...but increasingly this is my take. Across the Northeast and in NJ/NY/Conn in particular it is a tale of two storms...in the interior it is a storm of mass disruption and moderate destruction. Widespread power outages, some injuries and structural damage and the occasional fatality by car accident or tree fall. Side by side with these serious impacts are people like you and me...people who have followed along in anticipation and anxiety but who for the most part have been mostly inconvenienced. The other storm...is an immediate coastal storm and a tale of repeated danger, rescue and unfortunately more frequent fatalities....from Atlantic City...Toms River...the Central Jersey Shore NYC LI and now Connecticut the tale is more grim...serious damage to transportation infrastructure...a disconnect between forecasters and evacuation decision makers...communication failures. Arrogance from the near miss of more serious consequences of Irene. Here, near geographically but psychologically removed from the interior...this has been in places a complete disaster. I gather this both from posters and first responders on this board, friends and family on facebook where I have been actively posting about this storm for days...and coworkers from the union I belong to, some of whom live along the central Jersey shore. This storm surge has taken many by surprise...I can only hope that most found some sort of shelter of last resort and that our magnificent first responders have been able to assist the rest. We will find out in the next few days....but I fear this may be too optimistic. Hoping I am wrong about this....either way a lot of lessons to be learned from this storm. Jon in Jersey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunder Road Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Anyone know where these reports are from? I've been watching obs like a hawk all afternoon and I swear I haven't seen anyone (PHL, PNE, TTN, that is) go over 55 kts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cast4 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Similar conditions here...me and mine are fine...but increasingly this is my take. Across the Northeast and in NJ/NY/Conn in particular it is a tale of two storms...in the interior it is a storm of mass disruption and moderate destruction. Widespread power outages, some injuries and structural damage and the occasional fatality by car accident or tree fall. Side by side with these serious impacts are people like you and me...people who have followed along in anticipation and anxiety but who for the most part have been mostly inconvenienced. The other storm...is an immediate coastal storm and a tale of repeated danger, rescue and unfortunately more frequent fatalities....from Atlantic City...Toms River...the Central Jersey Shore NYC LI and now Connecticut the tale is more grim...serious damage to transportation infrastructure...a disconnect between forecasters and evacuation decision makers...communication failures. Arrogance from the near miss of more serious consequences of Irene. Here, near geographically but psychologically removed from the interior...this has been in places a complete disaster. I gather this both from posters and first responders on this board, friends and family on facebook where I have been actively posting about this storm for days...and coworkers from the union I belong to, some of whom live along the central Jersey shore. This storm surge has taken many by surprise...I can only hope that most found some sort of shelter of last resort and that our magnificent first responders have been able to assist the rest. We will find out in the next few days....but I fear this may be too optimistic. Hoping I am wrong about this....either way a lot of lessons to be learned from this storm. Jon in Jersey Great post. I couldn't have said it better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaoPos Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Anyone know where these reports are from? I've been watching obs like a hawk all afternoon and I swear I haven't seen anyone (PHL, PNE, TTN, that is) go over 55 kts. My.holly's fb page I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayson Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Winds gusting very heavily in Atlantic / Galloway (again). Very happy to not be on a barrier island right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunder Road Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 My.holly's fb page I believe. Yes but I mean are they verified obs? 76 mph right on my house seems suspicious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atownwxwatcher Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 I can confirm the 81 mph one in my county in Allentown PA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BucksCO_PA Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Yes but I mean are they verified obs? 76 mph right on my house seems suspicious. 76 mph would not surprise me at all, no doubt gusts were at least 70mph last evening here in feasterville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Anyone know where these reports are from? I've been watching obs like a hawk all afternoon and I swear I haven't seen anyone (PHL, PNE, TTN, that is) go over 55 kts. Which ones are you unsure about? PHL's gust to 68 was between obs in the remarks (gotta learn to read METAR ). I don't know if Mt. Holly dialed in themselves or borrowed the report I mentioned here, but I dialed into TTN after the initial communication loss and got the 68 mph report. After that it lost power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewxmann Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Is KDIX radar down? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 New record water levels set at Philadelphia and Cape May... just missed the record at Atlantic City Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
am19psu Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Somehow, I never lost power in Conshy. Wouldn't be surprised if peak gust here was 55+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rib Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Somehow, I never lost power in Conshy. Wouldn't be surprised if peak gust here was 55+ I lost power for a minute during the transition to southeast winds but I'm still here. We took a right front eyewall over the city. I've never seen winds like we had last night besides in thunderstorms. I'm planning to take a walk this afternoon to see the scale of the damage around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Somehow, I never lost power in Conshy. Wouldn't be surprised if peak gust here was 55+ We never did either. At least half of Tamaqua did though. We did lose cable though, so no TV andI have to use the phone for the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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