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New Jersey. Part of the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season. The effects of Hurricane Irene in New Jersey in 2011 included about $1 billion in damage to 200,000 homes and buildings. This made it the costliest disaster in the state's history, [ 1] though this was dwarfed by Hurricane Sandy the following year. Irene struck the state on August 28, and ...
The Passaic River (/ p ə ˈ s eɪ. ɪ k / pə-SAY-ik) is a river, approximately 80 miles (130 km) long, [2] in Northern New Jersey.The river in its upper course flows in a highly circuitous route, meandering through the swamp lowlands between the ridge hills of rural and suburban northern New Jersey, called the Great Swamp, draining much of the northern portion of the state through its ...
December 18, 2023 at 1:23 PM. A massive rainstorm that hit Sunday night continued to batter North Jersey into Monday with major flooding and power outages wreaking havoc on the region. Relief ...
At 6 a.m. the river had reached 10.95 feet; flood stage is 12 feet. The National Weather Service is expecting the river to crest at 16.8 feet at 6 p.m. Monday with moderate flooding.
Commons: Floyd images. Hurricane Floyd in 1999 was the costliest natural disaster in New Jersey 's history, until it was surpassed by Hurricane Irene in 2011. Damage in the state totaled $250 million (1999 USD ), much of it in Somerset and Bergen counties. Seven people died in New Jersey during Floyd's passage – six due to drowning, and one ...
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Further north, storm surge flooding causes massive destruction along the Raritan Bay and traps thousands in Hoboken. All of New Jersey Transit's commuter rail operations are affected, with some lines out of service for over a month, and inundation of rolling stock stored in NJ Transit's Meadowlands yard. Sandy also causes the worst power outage ...
Jan 12, 2024; Lincoln Park, NJ, United States; Kristen and Brian Perry's Lincoln Park home has flooded for the third time in three weeks.