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Omg! Does this meanas Forked River has to evacuate?? Where will the children go? I will give my last breath to protect them

Get the heck out of the orchards and pumpkin patches. It's 4:30. You've picked enough apples and pumpkins. Go home.

Stay safe everyone.

I remember a bunch of years ago when Crustie Wittman declared a state of emergency on a Sunday because of a predicted major blizzard. She closed all state offices for that Monday.
Then the snow never came. We all thanked the governor for the day off.

Thank you Christie for your concerns .

Doesn't a state of emergency mean no "non-essential personnel" should be on the roads? What does that mean for schools etc? Should we prepare for that too?

I remember the time that Whitman closed everything and not a flurry and he's doing this early....stay tuned.

Keeping my fingers crossed. Flew into the hurricane yesterday via Ft. Lauderdale. Looks like I will be stranded down here for a while, scheduled to come back Monday night. Thank God I have friends looking after my pets, house, & boat which is still in the water in a marina on the Metedeconk.

You got to be kidding!We have to be off the streets today?????WTF! he should have declare it for tomorrow not today!

....state of emergency should also carry HUGE penalties for those low-lifes that will choose to gouge you at the gas pumps with mysteriously quick rising prices

On the Web - Use credible websites to get information about natural hazards and emergency preparedness. The NJ Office of Emergency Management works closely with the National Weather Service and the National Hurricane Center regarding storm predictions and forecasts.

National Weather Service - http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/phi/
National Hurricane Center - http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
New Jersey Office of Emergency Management - www.ready.nj.gov
Social Media - Social media and other advanced communications technologies are used by the NJOEM and by emergency managers statewide.

Find out if your community has a "reverse 9-1-1" system or if you can opt-in for email updates from municipal officials.
"Like" the NJOEM on Facebook, follow it on Twitter, or subscribe to the NJ State Police (NJSP) on Nixle Connect.
NJOEM on FB: www.facebook.com/READYNEWJERSEY
NJOEM on Twitter: @NJOEM2010
NIXLE - New Jersey residents can register to receive messages by sending a text message with their zip code to 888777 (data rates may apply depending on your plan). Online registration is also available at www.nixle.com.
NJ Alert - NJ Alert is a free, voluntary and confidential emergency alerting system that allows NJ Office of Emergency Management officials to send E-mail or text messages to cell phones, and other email enabled devices during an emergency event. Sign up for NJ Alert by logging on to: www.njalert.gov.

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yeah john thanks for the websites to look up on our computers that will have no electricity to turn them on. thankfully gov crisco has stocked up on ice cream and it will be too windy for him to take the state copter campaigning for a few days.

Floodsmart...google it..important info on flooding from nfip...

@ ed crowley....cordless phones will not work in a power outage!

Although declared today, the state of emergency does not go into effect until 4 p.m. tomorrow.

For great and accurate weather information check out Bob Weatherman Burger on Facebook

i like how people always say "have you cell phone charged in case the power goes out". i guess they forget the fact that the cell tower antenna that is used to connect that cell phone call is also powered by the same type of electricity that powers your home. a mass power outage will take out the tower too, rendering your cell almost unusable in most cases.

so why during a state of emergency do postal workers still have to deliver the mail and be out in the storm?

An list of shelters as of yet, pet friendly shelters? I love when they declare state of emergency, and voluntary evacuations, but fail to tell you where you can go.

I have a generator

Thank you John. Yea. I have a generator and I'm going to eat cheeseburgers ..The people at the Home Depot yesterday wished they were me. I told them
I said you have to prepare for these things. That is why I listen to Sam Champion. He is always right. And he is humble too

New Jersey is in a state of Perpetual Emergency.

gee rick youre just a wealth of information. how did you ever get by before wikopedia was invented? perhaps you can split the atom for us next. today gov crisco did his usual admonishing of nj residents and left off by saying " i,m going home to watch the jets game" . how much longer do we have to live under this cannoli swallowing load?

yeah rick no blizzards last year it was in the 70s at christmas and record breaking heat waves this summer yet again for the 10 th year in a row and now the second "storm of the century" in 2 years . according to you climate change is a joke. lets see who is laughing tommorrow

"Storm of the Century" is a term created by the media. We've had several so far this century and we have 89 years left.
If global warming is caused by an increased carbon footprint wouldn't it have happened 50 or 60 years ago when car emissions were much worse and there was a lot more coal being burned?

Hey Dan, have a nice storm

rick i can see you and bn are real scientists as well as grammar police. this planet has cycles that takes tens of thousands of years not ten years. every summer notice how many times the word " record' is used . carbon slowly started building when it started with the industrial age and increased by the number of cars over the decades. cars had more emissions years ago? true but there were hundreds of millions less cars 60 years ago. more coal being burned 50 years ago than now ? really? 60 years ago we didnt have air conditioning in every home, electric dryers and stoves tvs and every other electricity using devices in every room. coal is used to make electricity for the majority of this country . if you think we are using less electricity today than 60 yrs ago i have a worn out electric grid to sell you. the sad part is it wont be you that pay for your ignorance the next generation of kids will. we have in the past ten years tropical diseases like west nile in nj and hunks of ice the size of manhattan are breaking off of glaciers. hey but what do i know i,m only agreeing with what 97% of the world's scientists are saying. silly scientists dont they know those like rick and bn know better than them. rick and bn are of the sara palin variety of people who believe this planet is only 6,000 years old and the flintstones was a documentary. now you can go back to worrying about punctuation there rick. priorities.

Ten of thousands of years? Really Dan?
Have you never heard of the Little Ice Age which extended from about 1150 to 1850. It was caused by a decrease in solar activity.
http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/lia/little_ice_age.html
It was preceeded by the Medieval Warm Period.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/medieval.html

Perhaps you shouldn't believe all the propaganda you see on MSNBC & CNN.

Wow,
I've exeperianced summer thunderstorms that I found to be more exciting

hundreds of millions less cars 60 years ago? Where did the hundreds of millions of extra drivers come from?
60 years ago most cars got 10 to 15 miles to the gallon and didn't burn it anywhere as cleanly as they do now. And they spewed lead into the air.
60 years ago there were no nuclear power plants. Yes, they generate lots of electricity. Many of the coal burning plants of that time have converted to natural gas because it is cleaner.

How do you guys think this will effect the real estate market? Curious since in OC things have really been moving, and now wonder if people will want to run out of here, and then if people would want to then grab a good buy???

But now more home owners are UNDERWATER.

A hunderd, well maybe 120 years ago 97% of the world's scientists said that heavier than air flight was impossible. A couple of bicycle mechanics proved that wrong.
silly scientists!
At that time they said you couldn't mass produce automobiles at an affordable price. A farmer proved them wrong.

Rick I like your style :)

Who is winning? Rick or Dan?

Dan couldn't win in a one person race