UPDATE 8:05 p.m. BNN reports an active sinkhole with odor of gas on Forest Ave. near Glenridge Ave. in Montclair. NorthJersey.com reports that Route 3, just east of the Garden State Parkway, is closed in both directions.
Be careful out there. Breaking News Network reports live wires came down shortly after 5 p.m. at the intersection of Broughton Ave. and Hobston St. in Bloomfield, with a street closure at Broughton. Bloomfield Fire Department advises the situation is very dangerous with the primary wire down on sidewalk next to a house.
Meanwhile, over in Upper Montclair, Godfrey Road and Burnside Road are completely under water. There’s also flooding in Bloomfield and on Clark Street in Glen Ridge.
Several readers have reported hail, and one person reports that power is out on Claremont Ave. in Montclair between North Mountain and Valley Road.
One reader reported a another downed power line on the east side of Grove Street in Montclair, near Glenridge Ave., with power out in the area. Here are some pictures sent in by readers of flooding at Brookside Park in Bloomfield, Broad and James Street in Bloomfield and Thomas Street in Glen Ridge.
Let us know what’s going on your way, and send a photo to tips@baristanet.com.
If it doesn’t stop raining soon my house will float down to Nutley. Dear God: Please stop the thunder, lightening, baseball-size hail and torrential rain. If you do, I promise never again to say anything bad about Al Gore.
Yikes. Everyone ok?
There’s a joke like that walleroo.
” Dear God: Please stop the thunder, lightening, baseball-size hail and torrential rain. If you do, I promise never again to say anything bad about Al Gore.”
Then it stops raining and walleroo says “nevermind it just stopped.”
or he walks out of his house and zap he’s gone
Massive flooding by the Garden Center
Do you mean the garden center where T-Mobile wants to put a cell tower mere feet from the crumbling retaining wall on what is probably now a raging rapids Third River? That garden center?
In my 16 years in Montclair, I’ve never seen the stretch of Tony’s Brook that passes in front of the High School Annex overtake and completely submerge the intersection of North Fullerton Avenue and Chestnut Street. Today I did.
Garages were flooded on Broad Street adjacent to the Third River which are only a few doors away from the Brookside Garden Center…..and T-Mobile wants to tell us the proposed area is not in a flood plain, while the raging waters run directly behind the Brookside Garden Center and our homes!
how about some SRV?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWLw7nozO_U
Wish I had my camera with me around 8:15 pm to get a shot of the ducks and geese swimming in the street between Kinder Towers and the brook.
The lightening was so intense between about 4 and 6 pm that I couldn’t concentrate on my work. (Can you imagine such a thing?) At one point our power dipped long enough for the iMac to shut off, losing the fruits of several minutes of distraction. Oh, the horror.
When I run for Bloomfield mayor, my platform on self-sufficiency will begin with the restoration of the ponds of Watsessing Park. We’ll fish for our dinners. No longer will lives be ruled by Big Fish.
Feeling that Claremont outage was the only one in Montclair. Long afternoon/night without electric. Worse, Tang Poohzie, Ginger Kitty, was very upset and resorted to squeaking noises. Electric back, cat is resting in his basket, and I am wondering why this area always loses power?
Sky is darkening as I write this; better hurry up and get ready for the next implosion!
I was down the block when the power line came down on Grove. I pulled into my driveway, but people continued to drive over an ACTIVE downed power line! I don’t think I ever saw anything so stupid. It was sparking, smoking, and intermittently flaring with a big flame. I have no idea what those people were thinking. The firehouse is nearby, so they were there right quick, despite dispatch being down. It was apparently a main line, and it took about 2 hours for PSE&G to get there (I can only imagine how swamped they were), but they had the power back on by a little after 9 – good job! A truck was out front until after midnight doing additional work.
@bebopgun how will you keep the contamination that comes from upstream out of the ponds. You can fish at Clark’s pond right now and it’s lovely.