Gov. Christie: Stay Off Roads During Winter Storm
In interviews with New York TV stations, the governor said his family was among 600,000 residents statewide without electricity, mainly in northern New Jersey.
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After declaring a State of Emergency earlier this evening, Governor Christie addressed New Jersey residents via telephone interviews on three New York City television stations.
Christie noted that 600,000 are without power in New Jersey and that number will continue to go up before it goes back down. He warned that the snow won’t taper off in this area until about midnight.
“There are trees down everywhere,” Christie said. “Don’t leave your house. There are downed power lines everywhere. Crews are out restoring power, but the best thing you can do to help is stay off the road.”
Christie said the worst hit areas are in northern New Jersey.
“110,000 people in Morris County are without power including the governor. It gets better as you go south.”
He also stated that New Jersey was ready for the storm. “We had 48 hours notice but this is more snow than we expected. It also came earlier than we expected.”
Christie assured viewers that every DOT truck and all private contractors are out on the road; the state was not caught off guard by this storm, he said.
“The problem is that we can’t get trees off the road fast enough. Twenty-five state roads are completely closed; over 60 are partially closed,” Christie said.
Mac
10:34 pm on Saturday, October 29, 2011
Of course Governor Christie declared a state of emergency. He may be in the dark at home (George must have dropped the flashlight) but when he received the above picture on his cell, he knew he had to act fast to prevent a total disaster. This picture is a real tear jerker. It unmercifully flattened the Governor's favorite at-home neighborhood hot dog stand.
Jim
12:34 am on Sunday, October 30, 2011
Corzine would have been busy selling the teachers pension fund down the river. lol. Goldman Sachs CEO. Financial genius right? Suckers.
Luis Hernandez
9:23 am on Sunday, October 30, 2011
Jim
What does this comment have to do with the snow?
KC
1:35 am on Sunday, October 30, 2011
My goodness it just seems there is a new severe weather event every month now.
.
3:39 am on Sunday, October 30, 2011
"Get the hell off the road!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Madzi
6:28 am on Sunday, October 30, 2011
Kudos to Gov. Christie for the S of E declaration. A slap in the back of the head to the people who insisted on gettting in their cars and driving around for no solid reason. With the ground as saturated as it is, it's a wonder more trees weren't uprooted.
john
8:18 am on Sunday, October 30, 2011
i bet the governors house has a generator.........
clamdigger
9:54 am on Sunday, October 30, 2011
Hello john; you too can have a generator, just go out and buy one, it's just that easy.
John Hayes
8:41 am on Sunday, October 30, 2011
Is it still considered a winter storm if it happens in October?
Paul J. DiBartolo
9:27 am on Sunday, October 30, 2011
While I genuinely like the Gov, I really do hope we don't have to declare a State of Emergency every time it snows or rains. Man, how did we ever handle this stuff 30 or 40 years ago? I guess there wasn't as much federal disaster money around then.
Mattie
9:41 am on Sunday, October 30, 2011
I know, seriously. I think it's time we start insisting our Power Company starts spending SOME of their billions of dollars in profits by upgrading and expanding their power grids and outputs. I'm tired of power outages every time the wind blows above a breeze or an inch of snow falls....
clamdigger
10:01 am on Sunday, October 30, 2011
Hi Mattie; you are correct,especially the transformers but it's essential that residents also keep their trees/limbs away from powerlines. I know the power co. sends crews out to prune trees to prevent damage but it's usually downed tree(s) that wipes out areas.
gerry
12:26 pm on Sunday, October 30, 2011
40 yrs ago There were not so many cars on the road. rt 80 was still being constructed as were many of the other roads. MOre ppl lived in cities where they also worked and were able to take public transportation. Major companies are now gone from the cities and ppl have to go to corporate centers where if they are lucky enough to find jobs will need to commute by car & / or move to the burbs.. which btw are now getting more and more developed .. rural north Jersey is quickly becoming a thing of the past , which many be why so many bears are found roaming in residential neighborhoods too.. This is progress...and you are most likely correct with regard to the disaster money.
Mattie
7:43 am on Monday, October 31, 2011
Power and cable lines are all underground here in Holiday City, Clamdigger. :-) Can't blame trees and /or falling branches for the power outages here. I've been in HC for a little less than 2 yrs and we've had no less than FIVE power outages in that time. Some short (an hour or two), some longer, (a few hours to more than 14 hrs during the hurricane). I'm assuming in our case it's a matter of old transformer boxes and old worn lines. Time for upgrading!
john
10:32 am on Sunday, October 30, 2011
WAY ahead of ya clamdigger,
i got 2...a whole house, and a portable..........
plan A and plan B
clamdigger
11:41 am on Sunday, October 30, 2011
hi john; so you're ahead of the game, so what's the problem if the Gov's private house or Gov's mansion in Princeton has back ups too. I'd expect the the Gov's mansion to have one this day in age where instant communication is expected by many and with the problems that arise during crucial situations.
john
1:34 pm on Sunday, October 30, 2011
clamdigger............i made the comment about the gov having a generator only as a positive thing.....i m not governor nor mayor nor anyone important..i just choose to be ready for the worst..but we all should have a plan B of some sort when things go wrong.
john
1:39 pm on Sunday, October 30, 2011
also, the state of emergency is declared so as to write tickets to those on the road not essential to storm issues...........not really anything about getting monies.......that state fund has been dry for many years.
Mike Simpson
4:59 pm on Sunday, October 30, 2011
There was no travel ban or restrictions in effect. More information may be found here... http://www.nj.gov/njoem/soe_faq.html . It also enables the Gov. to activate the National Guard to assist Counties and municipalities.
Eric Sauder
5:41 pm on Sunday, October 30, 2011
I don't know about the rest of you but I sure as heck got off the beach :)
Luis Hernandez
8:13 pm on Sunday, October 30, 2011
Eric...very nice. :-)
David Smith
9:51 pm on Sunday, October 30, 2011
If the Governor has to declare a state of emergency because of that tiny storm what is he going to do when the real winter gets here?
Eleanor
5:22 am on Monday, October 31, 2011
These announcements are starting to remind me of the repeated joke in 'Airplane' - 'this is a bad day to give up drinking' (smoking, drugs , etc) We live in the northeast. We have bad weather. We cant be ordered to vacate our roads, homes, towns, counties for rain and snow and if they keep ratcheting up hysteria for the kind of storms we have had forever, what will happen when a serious event comes and nobody reacts. This 'boy who cried wolf' attitude toward the weather has got to stop.
Catherine Galioto
6:20 am on Monday, October 31, 2011
"Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue." Great gag line.
Madzi
5:49 am on Monday, October 31, 2011
And yet, Eleanor, that is precisely what the red tape of government requires to get anything done. The governor needs to explain exactly WHY he needed to declare a SofE...because an educated people need to know. We've still got lines down and debris to clean up and with Halloween upon us, I hope parents are making sure their kids are safe trick or treating tonight.
Jack Straw
7:25 am on Monday, October 31, 2011
If you don't like the fat man's emergency handling skills, Jon Corzine will be available for work when the company he ran goes bankrupt after losing European junk bond bets he made. This reminds me of the cartoon of a crazed looking Corzine sitting in front of a slot machine, frantically pulling levers at the start of NJ's recession.
1stcav
8:00 am on Monday, October 31, 2011
Mary Beth , just tell them to do a fly over, DON"T land I'll be in the headlines again , like the LL baseball game..fly over and drop 2 doz. donunts..the heck with the generator we have coats...
1stcav
8:08 am on Monday, October 31, 2011
Mattie: "there underground in my development" , but there not getting to that development
john
9:05 am on Monday, October 31, 2011
underground electric is usually served from overhead wires somewhere.....one break on the overheads equals many outages...
i heard gov christie this morning on 101.5, their medham house, no power , no generator.....they went to governors mansion, lost power there also......
please keep those halloween kiddo s safe ! ! lotta wires still on the ground......
Cryptaknight
11:51 am on Monday, October 31, 2011
Is he going to to evacuate again or just pay all the money he cost the people for the last blunder ?