Share/Save “You know, I don’t think it’s going to be like in the movies,” said Steve Mellon, while loading his shopping cart with large water containers. “I am getting some extra water, canned food, I don’t really expect anything serious to happen, maybe power outage for a day, or two.” Mellon was one of hundreds [...]
Share/SaveBusinesses and homeowners around Downtown Jersey City taped up windows, lined up sandbags and closed up shop this afternoon as the worst impacts of Hurricane Irene loomed just hours away.
Share/Save Michelle Nirenberg was planning to help transport the animals being evacuated from Liberty Humane Society today because of the hurricane. In the end, she took four cats home herself. Nirenberg, who lives Downtown, will foster Han Solo and Pumpernickle for the weekend — and bring another two cats to stay with willing friends who [...]
Share/Save Photo by Jason G. (Sonicdork.com) The two flashes of rain that have come to Jersey City this morning and early afternoon have already led to backed up street drains and several inches of standing water at locations around the city. The photo above was taken at about 1:30 pm at the intersection of Logan [...]
Share/SaveUPDATE, AUGUST 27 at 4:45 PM: Jersey City officials just announced that they will open a pet-friendly shelter today at 5 pm. Anyone hoping to take a pet to one of Jersey City’s six emergency shelters is out of luck, as the shelters are not accepting pets, unlike the shelters set up in Hoboken and [...]
Share/Save Downtown Jersey City resident Marie Canamaque pushes a cart down the water aisle of the Downtown Pathmark a little after 10 am this morning. She didn’t have many choices, with only two bottles of Pellegrino, a six-pack of a weird water drink called Propel Zero and a few Vitamin Waters remaining. Canamaque said she [...]
Share/SaveAs Hurricane Irene moves towards New Jersey, President Barack Obama has now declared a State of Emergency for the entire state. The federal State of Emergency joins the state’s own State of Emergency, declared by Gov. Chris Christie several days ago. The important federal declaration allows New Jersey’s cash-strapped agencies dealing with the storm and [...]
Share/SaveThose of you planning on heading to the parking lot of PS 30 to pick up free sand and sand bags this morning should head instead to PS 40 at 88 Gates Avenue (between Ocean and Garfield) instead. The truck driver bringing the sand in had trouble getting into the PS 30 parking lot, according [...]
Share/Save JCI reader Eric Fleming sent in these shots and firsthand reports from the Jersey City municipal parking lot on Montgomery Street, where city officials were to begin allowing resident to fill 10,000 available sand bags with 44 tons of sand at 8 am this morning in an effort to mitigate basement flooding. At 8:20 [...]
UPDATED AUGUST 27 at 8 AM As Hurricane Irene draws nearer to the Jersey City area, federal and local officials say now is the time to evacuate if you’re planning on leaving. If not, residents are urged to make final preparations to ride out what could be a severe storm that brings wind gusts of up to 85 miles per hour, 6 to 12 inches of rain, and plenty of flooding.
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