Storms Leave Nearly 6,000 Without Power in Freehold
Water and ice available for JCP&L customers still without power.
Violent thunderstorms blowing through Monmouth County late Saturday knocked out power to some 30,000 customers, according to Jersey Central Power and Light, and had left up to 3,600 outages in Freehold Borough and over 2,300 in Freehold Township still unrestored as of Sunday afternoon.
Officials of the Monmouth County Fair announced that damage at the fairgrounds has resulted in cancellation of the fair Sunday.
Downed trees and local flooding were reported through much of the area and access to Freehold was shut down by police at about 11 p.m. Saturday, according to a report on APP.com.
JCP&L advises residents to assume any downed wires are live and dangerous. The power company has partnered with the following supermarkets to make water and ice available to Freehold residents without power:
Acme
3241 Rt 9
Freehold
Foodarama - Shop Rite
South Street & Rt. 9
Freehold
Norkus Foodtown
597 Park Ave
Freehold
Stop & Shop
Raintree Town Center
160 Village Center Drive
Freehold
Freehold Patch user Karrie McKeon uploaded photos of the damage sustained in Freehold Borough following the storms. Share your photos and videos and let us know how your neighborhood faired.
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Karrie McKeon
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Robin Consavage
10:07 am on Sunday, July 29, 2012
If you guys need help cutting up trees call me 908 329 7598 60.00 per hour CASH
Carol
1:38 pm on Sunday, July 29, 2012
Wow, how nice of you to offer! And to think you'll pay $60.00 CASH per hour too! What a guy!!!!!!
sharon grillo
2:01 pm on Monday, July 30, 2012
wow...how bout out of the kindest of your heart..have you ever heard of the word volunteer....pathetic !!!!
Freda Lopez
11:45 am on Sunday, July 29, 2012
The towns are not doing anything to maintain these old trees they put in front of so many people's homes and as a result, they are damaging homes, cars, power lines...it's ridiculous...I called the shade tree commission 2 cut down the 2 trees in front of my home and they cut down one tree but left a 10ft trunk out of the ground and due to storm, the other tree was cut in half and is in the middle of the road...if they would have done their job to begin with, it would never have happened! Very lazy in shade tree commission in freehold. Just saying!
Graham Jones
1:47 pm on Sunday, July 29, 2012
The trees have been there for a long time, not just put there as old trees. It has always been a feature of Freehold and makes the town a charming place. I am sure no-one forsaw this happening.
Joseph Woolston Brick
1:57 pm on Sunday, July 29, 2012
The old trees of Freehold are what makes the town Freehold. I couldn't see Freehold being the town it is without them, those trees that were downed and hopefully new ones will be replanted, are going to take a very long time to grow, like more than our lifetime to look like the others do now.
Kevin Asadi
3:27 pm on Sunday, July 29, 2012
Trees are beautiful but we have now seen on numerous occasions that these particular ones are now a legitimate threat to life and property. It's time to cut down the overgrown ones and replace them with a different species that will not grow quite as tall. If someone is killed next time, "no one could have foreseen this" would not be an excuse. We can now foresee it and it's time to do something about it.
Bill McGonigle
3:58 pm on Sunday, July 29, 2012
There are plenty of towns to live in that don't have beautiful old trees. Sure, there's a risk every few decades, but those who live in Freehold likely saw the Tree Town USA signs on the way in. Making Freehold unsightly isn't the answer. Those who feel the risk is too high have many other options.
Kevin Asadi
10:39 pm on Sunday, July 29, 2012
I don't believe replacing exhausted trees with new ones would render Freehold unsightly, would you? Today, Freehold is unsightly. Also, we've seen down trees and power outages every few months, not decades. Is this a function of such extraordinary weather? Or have these trees seen healthier days?
Concerned Taxpayer
7:30 pm on Sunday, July 29, 2012
Anyone saying you had a tornado? The damage looks like one.
Technokat
3:58 am on Monday, July 30, 2012
I believe the sights and sounds all point to there having been a tornado or something LIKE a tornado. Two people I know both reported hearing the sound of intense wind ("like a freight train") and hail before extensive damage to the trees surrounding the buildings they were both in--I'm talking a second before the trees split and sent some of their largest limbs careening through the air, there was that unmistakeable noise and the sound of large blocks of ice coming down briefly.
Neighbors had a very large part of a tree which had broken off hit their upstairs window. No way that tree "fell" into their house--it was simply too far away to have just fallen. The large limb had burn marks on it which suggest that it was hit by lightening, and then it was carried violently and suddenly by the wind. The devastation at one of my friend's houses suggested a wind that whipped through a particular straight line leveling everything in its path. Straight-line winds? Maybe. Mini-tornado or funnel? Quite possibly.
Show me the money
11:45 pm on Sunday, July 29, 2012
Has anyone of you noticed that the trees were up rooted completely in tacked. The sign of a completely healthy tree. Open your eyes and stop pointing fingers.
John Hayes
8:23 am on Monday, July 30, 2012
Not to mention intact.