Asbury is still chaotic... even on Main St. and that's the clearest street in town. There are abandoned cars blocking the path of the snowploughs and the tow trucks that were called have been getting stuck on the edge of town. I can see it staying this way until we get close to 50 at the weekend.
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Asbury is still chaotic... even on Main St. and that's the clearest street in town. There are abandoned cars blocking the path of the snowploughs and the tow trucks that were called have been getting stuck on the edge of town. I can see it staying this way until we get close to 50 at the weekend.
dhsean
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Belmar still Snowmenated!
Today's cross bike excursion to search for food in Belmar. We're screwed - I may be stranded at home again tomorrow. Going a little stir crazy. 😡
Today's cross bike excursion to search for food in Belmar. We're screwed - I may be stranded at home again tomorrow. Going a little stir crazy. 😡
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starflyr
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great pix al!!
I wanted to go to il pavone to get some lattes and gelato
guess that's out....lol ¡
I wanted to go to il pavone to get some lattes and gelato
guess that's out....lol ¡
I used snowshoes to get to the spot I took this picture from this morning. It's Cookman Avenue in Asbury Park.
starflyr
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well guess I'm lucky I moved out of belmar! the roads by me in tr are plowed 3x,
holy crap 30 inches!
holy crap 30 inches!
wonderturtle
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wish I had pictures of the drama on my street last night.
girl got her car stuck. they spent about 40 minutes trying to get unstuck (and just got more entrenched).
then the Einsteins had the inspired idea to use a big SUV to push her car up the road. I think they very quickly realized the stupidity of that idea after ramming her car a few times with no results.
then the cop came.
he must have called in the plow...it did no good.
then the tow truck came....and got stuck as well, about 100 feet short.
then the second tow truck came and brought out the chain and dragged her car 100 feet up the road, somehow braking off her spoiler in the process.
in all the drama took about 2 hours. it was like watching reality tv. found out today that some of my neighbors were watching the same show 😉
hopefully the young woman learned a lesson: her stupid decision to drive her small sedan around last night cost about 1.5 hours of a cop's time (should been spent on more important matters); a plow; and two tow trucks + the personal costs to her [tow charges?, broken spoiler, and possibly a ticket (I heard a rumor that Middletown cops were issuing tickets for driving in the State of Emergency]
girl got her car stuck. they spent about 40 minutes trying to get unstuck (and just got more entrenched).
then the Einsteins had the inspired idea to use a big SUV to push her car up the road. I think they very quickly realized the stupidity of that idea after ramming her car a few times with no results.
then the cop came.
he must have called in the plow...it did no good.
then the tow truck came....and got stuck as well, about 100 feet short.
then the second tow truck came and brought out the chain and dragged her car 100 feet up the road, somehow braking off her spoiler in the process.
in all the drama took about 2 hours. it was like watching reality tv. found out today that some of my neighbors were watching the same show 😉
hopefully the young woman learned a lesson: her stupid decision to drive her small sedan around last night cost about 1.5 hours of a cop's time (should been spent on more important matters); a plow; and two tow trucks + the personal costs to her [tow charges?, broken spoiler, and possibly a ticket (I heard a rumor that Middletown cops were issuing tickets for driving in the State of Emergency]
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MMuller
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still no plow in Shark River Hills, Neptune other than Lakewood ave and Brighton Ave. Blasted out on the bike to check out the hood. Hey, it was like riding in the sand at Allaire! A couple pics. Entrance to 18, not! Road at camp evans.
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Red Mosquito
Formerly RLB the Scrapple Boy
So what are you guys in Monmouth County paying for property taxes? I wonder if this is a big middle finger to Christie for cutting funding. And I could care less if he's in Disney world.
gtluke
The Moped
I don't want to pay for my town's preparedness and your town's unpreparedness.
It snowed, it does this every single year. Your town should be able to cope with that. If we had an earthquake I could understand, we aren't supposed to have earthquakes and should generally not bother preparing for one.
It snowed, it does this every single year. Your town should be able to cope with that. If we had an earthquake I could understand, we aren't supposed to have earthquakes and should generally not bother preparing for one.
Red Mosquito
Formerly RLB the Scrapple Boy
The governor slashed state funding to pretty much every municipality, so the municipalities have to find ways to fill their budget deficits. Which means layoffs and restructuring, which in the public sector is really not easy as I'm sure everyone knows. In the end, it leads to crap [url = "http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=201012280347"] like this[/url]. I wanted to clarify my statement, even though this is going to derail the thread too much, my apologies 😱
And BTW, I agree with the cutting of funding....lay everyone off and re-hire them under real world terms...like accountability for your job/actions, real world pay, and real world benefits.
Also, NJ having so many damn little municipalities doesn't help. Condense the 53 municipalites in Monmouth down to 30 some and you cut out salary for 20 some majors, police cheifs and any kind of "upper managment". Any non-corrupt state would have done that years ago.
Bergen, Monmouth and Morris (borderline) are the main offenders.
Bergen, Monmouth and Morris (borderline) are the main offenders.
Red Mosquito
Formerly RLB the Scrapple Boy
Word. Wasn't Christie trying to encourage this? Please don't get me wrong, I'm not a Christie whore (I don't know anything else about him, and no I don't vote anymore either....I plead the Carlin) but I think he took a big step in the right direction.
Asbury getting this much snow....I dont care who the governor is, or what the budget is....they DONT have the snow removal equipment to deal with it. Bottom line. There was no way this wasnt going to happen. Snow removel is STUPID expensive. You can pave roads for nearly what it costs to remove snow from them. Shore towns choose to spend their money elsewhere.
