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Flooded Streets!

Saturday, September 6, 2008

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My Mista is out delivering our son to a Bar Mitzvah party at Diva Lounge in Montclair, and called in to report massive flood sightings on the way. Valley Road at Watchung near the A&P is closed; police barricades by the Watchung Station rail bridge are only incidental to the pool preventing any passage; beware Park Avenue, south of the station where submerged roadway makes it impossibly impassible. Edgemont Pond is now Lake Edgemont, growing bigger by the raindrop....

How's your street, basement, gutters lookin'?
Photo, above, Fran Liscio

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-- Photos, Anthony Batson

Posted by Annette Batson on September 6, 2008 6:20 PM
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Basement is bone dry.... for the first time in years-- Clean gutters!!!

But where is the leak in the family room coming from?

Beats me...... Ah, home ownership.

How's Mrs. Martta's new place I wonder... Dry I hope.

Posted by profwilliams | September 6, 2008 7:37 PM
 

Yes, thanks for asking, Prof. That was one of many reasons we bought this house: basement has always been dry as a bone.

We wanted to get out and dig up our irises today, clean and trim them, and replant but an hour into it, the downpour started. Oh well, tomorrow is another day.

Hope everyone's staying dry.

Posted by Mrs. Martta | September 6, 2008 7:45 PM
 

And Fran: Your Mista Barista is doing a mitzvah! (There's a poem here somewhere),

Posted by Mrs. Martta | September 6, 2008 7:48 PM
 

we have some sporadic power failures on orange rd.

Posted by Strong Koffee | September 6, 2008 7:55 PM
 

Mellonbrush reports that the power if out near Watsessing Park in Bloomfield.

Posted by galaxyman | September 6, 2008 8:02 PM
 

Hopefully the power will go out everywhere, enough to scare the wits out of you profligates.

Posted by mathilda | September 6, 2008 8:29 PM
 

Basement has some leaks, but so far, it is par for the course.

Posted by Dog Mom | September 6, 2008 8:36 PM
 

stay safe & dry dog mom.

Posted by Strong Koffee | September 6, 2008 8:42 PM
 

Thanks...the husband is at a gig in western Jersey, and his new amp is sitting on bricks down in the basement. God bless the wet/dry vac. I'm doing first shift, and presumably he will do second.

Posted by Dog Mom | September 6, 2008 8:47 PM
 

Power out on eastern Carteret St, Glen Ridge/Bloomfield.

Posted by scruffycat | September 6, 2008 8:53 PM
 

Hugs to Dog Mom and her dawgies!

Posted by Mrs. Martta | September 6, 2008 8:59 PM
 

Much of Watsessing Park is flooded over, and there's about 2 inches of water in half of our basement. What's the Super's number in this place?

Posted by bloomfieldguy | September 6, 2008 10:31 PM
 

As I approached the overpass on Valley Road (near A&P) I found a car half-submerged and stalled. Poor guy must have misjudged the depth of the water.

Posted by banana split | September 6, 2008 10:52 PM
 

Alas, this happens quite often at the Valley Road underpass.

Posted by galaxyman | September 6, 2008 11:04 PM
 

I witnessed several people driving around (some even through) the barricade on Valley. Park Street now seems fine, though. Had fun running through Edgemont earlier today and getting completely soaked (trying not to think about the pond scum that must have been filling the puddles).

Posted by RaeVen | September 6, 2008 11:19 PM
 

the power is back on..... no more battery powered light!

Posted by Strong Koffee | September 6, 2008 11:21 PM
 

mathilda dear, we've missed you so

Posted by State Street Pete | September 7, 2008 12:24 AM
 

Listening to the sounds of the crickets as I open up the the windows to let in the cool dry air. We certainly dodged a bullet.

Posted by complainerpuss | September 7, 2008 12:59 AM
 

Thanks, MM. We faired okay, and my husband didn't get home too late. We lost power for about 15 minutes, apparently due to a wire down around the corner from us. Husband needed to park a block away, but that's no biggie.

Doggie and cats are fine, other than perhaps doggie's upset stomach from getting into the compost heap earlier in the day due to said husband leaving the back gate open. Fortunately so far, we have had no digestive revisits with the bounty that the compost heap yielded.

Posted by Dog Mom | September 7, 2008 5:10 AM
 

What a wet day.

About 5 inches.

Posted by overthinking montclair | September 7, 2008 7:30 AM
 

Power was out on Chestnut Hill Pl. in Glen Ridge for about 3 1/2 hours lsst night - nothing major this time. Kids had fun playing flashlight basement tag and Mom had fun playing Break Classic on the iPhone!

Posted by NNN9495 | September 7, 2008 10:32 AM
 

The best floods are always the Toney's Brook floods.

Posted by ackme | September 7, 2008 10:44 AM
 
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