Blizzard Paralyzes Lakewood

Fiveish shovel tlsTuesday 10:40 p.m.(Further updates in extended article) The storm has arrived full force. Weather centers are reporting an “Explosively Developing” Storm, with accumulation expected up to 18 inches. Driving conditions are harsh. Please use caution, should you have to travel. TLS will continue to bring you all pertinent updates of the storm as we receive them.
12:21 a.m. As per Gov. Christie, all NJ Government offices will be closed today, Wednesday, February 10, due to the severe inclement weather.
1:04 a.m.Wires hanging extremely low on Squankum Road coming into Lakewood. Use alternate Route. (TLS-59).
8:34 a.m. Continental has cancelled all 400 flights for today.
11:33 a.m. Storm to get worse mid-day. Disrupts NJ Transit.
1:09 p.m. Major weather stations are reporting, that a second Blizzard is expected later today into this evening, and could dump another foot of snow in Monmouth and Ocean Counties.
4:34 p.m.Chaveirim suggests that anyone without a 4-wheel drive vehicle should stay off the roads. Driving conditions are extremely harsh and visiblitiy is limited.
4:41 p.m. Updated photo-current weather.
4:45 p.m. LPD has just shut down Madison Avenue between 6th and 7th Street due to icy road conditions. (TLS-46/TLS-52/TLS-CCP)
4:51 p.m. LPD and Chaveirim are advising there are cars stuck everywhere. Do not attempt to drive unless extremely urgent.
5:05 p.m. Storm intensifies, power lines are sagging on many roads.
5:47 p.m. URGENT: Chaveirim, PD and FD are overwhelmed with calls. Please do not attempt to drive in this weather. As we post this, there are dozens upon dozens of vehicles stuck on the roads.
5:56 p.m. send in your blizzard photos to [email protected]
6:43 p.m. The roof to classy Cleaners has collapsed. Multiple PD and FD units are on scene.
7:22 p.m.Driving conditions are extremely hazardous at this time. Trees are down in many areas. Wires are hanging very low on many roads. Stay off the roads.
8:33 p.m. FD responding to Lanes Mill for wires which are sparking. Many trees and tree limbs are blocking roads.
8:36 p.m. Thank you to all who sent in photos. As you can tell, we keep switching photos for our Featured Story. send in your photos to [email protected]
8:38 p.m. FD is reporting traffic lights are out at Pine and New Hampshire and at Oak Street and New Hampshire.
9:25 p.m. N.J. is expected to get hit by another storm this coming Monday-Tuesday, as current blizzard conditions paralyze travel in state. (Star Ledger)
10:03 p.m. As of this time, Chaveirim has received close to 200 calls for the day.

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Where'd they go?
16 years ago

Any body know what happened to the stop for pedestrian signs from 3rd & 1st And Clifton that you made a big deal about?

hi
16 years ago

I was wondering that too, I was driving there today and didnt see them.

Anonymous
16 years ago

can tls update us on the school sitch if open tom

Grumpy old Man
16 years ago

They locked them up for the night

TZOFLOIGEN!
16 years ago

IT’S GONE WITH THE WIND!!!!!!

BUSING CANCELED
16 years ago

FOR TOMM AND ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS CLOSED.

Yatzmech
16 years ago

It was removed so the plows can plow without distroying them.

lakewood askan
16 years ago

i was on the roads and they are very bad you should drive very slow if you have to

Anonymous
16 years ago

It got parked in the driveway it shouldn’t block the snow cleanup…

dovid
16 years ago

roads are terrible they are only salting not plowing as of yet

whispering pines
16 years ago

You will have trouble parking here. In the summer.
The snow will make it even more difficult. Please avoid our neighborhood unless you are a township snow plow truck or hatzolah.
Or a pizza delivery guy.
Or the Bais Hatorah schoolbus.
Or the yungerman who wants the succah I listed on free-bay.
Or Hershel.

wondering
16 years ago

anyone have an idea where global warming went?? can we get all gore out here with some of his hot air?

shabbos mevorchim/shekolim
16 years ago

It feels like Chanukah. I can’t believe that Purim is coming soon.
I’m just afraid that my homebound wife will start working on
shalach monos. She already has her theme but it’s a secret.
Dai letzoroh beshaito.

imo anochi betzoroh
16 years ago

I feel your pain, but it’s not as bad as my situation.
Just two words. Prune Hamintashen.

Look Out !!
16 years ago

I just went outside to move my cars for the plow & I was slipping & sliding. The driving is brutal. Its wet snow on top of a little leftover ice. Try not to drive. Better to park urself in a shul, pick an exotic topic to learn, and stay there for the whole day.

Anonymous
16 years ago

Forest ave not plowed yet! Please plow with shovels down

Mrs. harry
16 years ago

I don’t understand you Lakewood cynics mocking your neshei chayalos.
They are mehaderres bemitzvos and want to have a
mehudaros mishloach manos. They’re not watching t.v. or other
shtussim. Let them enjoy their planning and baking.

Al
16 years ago

Don’t expect them to plow forest in excess or any non Main road for that matter for now. I can see them salting. But plowing in the first 5 hours of a 24 hour storm is not going to happen. State is way to broke for that.

SMAFOO
16 years ago

#11 and all your follow-ons:
what am I chopped liver? caint a brudder get some love? if I was to venture out to whispering pines, i would hope to get to park one there, like Darryl in 86

heimishe veib
16 years ago

Genug shoyn.
Your positive and sunny attitude have no place in a blizzard
or anytime anywhere. Learn some yiddish, stop with the positive parenting classes, and ask my shviger for her recipes.
Then, no more of your blueberry kugel and whole wheat chulent.

moshe
16 years ago

repey to 12
Obama did a very good job! in only 1 year he got rid of global warming ( by the summer we may not need an air condition)

Anonymous
16 years ago

I hope that all of the kvetches that r complaining that their streets weren’t plowed yet r just as makpid about shoveling the snow from the sidewalks in front of their homes.

on the road
16 years ago

Can someone from LPW explain why trucks are driving around all with the plows up?? Not spreading anything either?? There got to be over 3 inches now!! Pls explain.

apricot hamintashen
16 years ago

Mrs veib: I wonder what your husband’s cholesterol numbers are.
Why do you always talk down to us out of towners?
I’ll have you know that I am a college educated professional
and a member of our shule’s executive board and eruv committee.
I get my recipes from a cookbook I won at our imos ubanos brunch,
so I don’t need your mother in law’s old fashioned concoctions.
The Torah’s ways are pleasant as it says “derochea darchei shalom
vechol nesivosehauh shalom hashiveinu olecha venashuva chadesh yameinu kekedem yisgadal veyiskadash”. Please act nice.

Anonymous
16 years ago

So glad that the BOE cancelled bussing for tomorrow we just saved 50k!!

smafoo has cabin fever
16 years ago

And in the end the chopped liver you make is equal to the love you take. Gee, late at night, a blizzard, more tolerant TLS moderation,
and rosh chodesh adar approaching—–it’s the perfect storm.
It gets by Buckner… They win!!!!!!

the way it is
16 years ago

On behalf of the entire Lakewood community I would like to commend the following organizations: Chavierim, EMS, Police, LDC, UEZ, Hatzolah, DPW, Mayor Steeve, DMC, Bikur Cholim, LAC, Fun Unzere, Vaad, LCSW, Buff, TLS, OEM, and All The Way Towing for your tireless work. Keep it up!!!!

from Winfield, Arizona
16 years ago

We are all benei and benos yisroel. Try some ahavas chinom instead of sinas chinom. There’s nothing wrong with soy sauce in the eivintzvivel,
or broccoli shabbat soup. Just like no two people have the same face so to every one has their own recipes. Leave the gun, take the cannoli.

ProudLkwdr
16 years ago

Relax all you guys!! Leave the cleanup to DPW and get off the roads,would you?!! They will not plow the minute YOU can’t see black. There’s a system and believe it or not it worked VERY well last storm. Unfortunately it did not work at all in the first big storm of the year but that seems to have been corrected. And as another commenter pointed out-maybe get out and shovel your sidewalk just as quick as you expect them to have your street cleaned.

smafoo on my shoulder
16 years ago

Lakewood has a lot of snow but I’m sure the township will have regular
hours tomorrow. Yeah, and Oscar Gamble has a crewcut.

AL GORE
16 years ago

Please Please don’t believe anything about any snow storm that the mainstreet media is reporting.. Additionally, even if you think you actually see or feel a real blizzard.. rest assured it’s pure hallucination!!! Our climate is getting hotter every day and you should not be fooled by what you are seeing.. And by the way.. I think it is nothing short of Chutzpah that they cancelled – again – the Senate Global Warming Hearing because of this supposed winter storm.. It’s a bunch of nonesense I tell you!!

SMAFOO
16 years ago

oscar gamble? smafoo wannabe getting ethnic on us. next we will have celerino sanchez and felix millan out for a stroll. ah to see those fields of yore, from a tiny apt on 15th ave. straw to the moon, THEY WIN!!!

lakewood Yingel
16 years ago

All schools closed for Wednesday and maybe Thursday. There is over 8 inches on the ground we are supposed 2 get more then 2 feet if it goes till Thursday morning. Maybe evan over 3 feet. Up 2 18 in NY

Anonymous
16 years ago

as of 4am it’s raining

an.
16 years ago

it was raining a good part of the night

jay
16 years ago

Why do they have to wait till 7 to cancel school I guess its yeshivish

hamentashen
16 years ago

any school news? i need to know if i should defrost my prune jelly for my hamentashen,and of course my mex neighbor shoveled my sidewalk why would you think i dont take care of my obligations

yanky
16 years ago

Its amazing to c the loss of brains when it comes to
Driving in the snow ! If u can’t drive bec u will get stuck
DON’T go out

torahneverstops
16 years ago

Not all schools are closed ……
will the whispering pines crowd be making it to Bais Hatorah without a bus?

hamentashen
16 years ago

yeshiva ketana has school for grades 5-8 from 9:15-12:30 no transportation

Anonymous
16 years ago

just drove around roads are not bad evreyone go have fun get out and about enjoy the snow.

Ari
16 years ago

What a waist of time 6 inches after all that talk

snow
16 years ago

the main part of the storm is around 1:00 this is just the begining

Kim
16 years ago

Should I go to yeshiva?

Anonymous
16 years ago

Efsher a local minyan for shachris ?

Anonymous
16 years ago

Is there school by those schools for the few hours just so some people can pat themselves on the back to say “We have school”? I am sure the kids are really looking forward to it.

Anonymous
16 years ago

please DPW the roads around clifton madison lexington were NOT plowed ,all side streets need plowing.

To Smafoo
16 years ago

I see cabin fever has hit hard my friend.  

Unfortunately as a long suffering metropolitan fanatic myself I think you will hear those words “they win” when the one who uttered it in 1986 uluv hashalom comes back to say it again. Until then fasten you seatbelts because it’s going to be a bumpy ride.  

Or better yet; do not follow them at all until the playoffs (if they ever get to it) so that you can lead a stress free Torahdiger life. 🙂

Anon
16 years ago

#46: Ever thought of the Bitul Torah of the thousands of Tinokos Shel Beis Rabon? Kudos to those menahalim for their chashivus HaTorah, even for “the few hours”!!

smafoo
16 years ago

why does everyone have to repeat the same things over and over

Chaim Leib
16 years ago

Did BMG give off today? My chavrusah is not here because he is watching his kids. My wife thinks I should go to yeshiva anyways. whats the eitzah? I rather help with the kids and learn in the house.

Anonymous
16 years ago

if you consider the learning of a few thousand tinokos shel bes rabon for 3 hours just something that people pat trhemselves on the back for then many people will disagree with you .

smafoo
16 years ago

i dislike when people use the word KUDOS

how much
16 years ago

how much more are we supposed to get?

much ado about nothing
16 years ago

storm aint so bad the last one was much worse

food for thought
16 years ago

my rav told me that the snow this year is a punishment for lakewood. he wouldnt go into detail about specifics ,. we need to change our ways bein odom lechavero and stop judging others is all he said .

jd
16 years ago

we will have rain the rest of the afternoon in ocean county—news media is wrong-they are causing state wide panic

clifton
16 years ago

On behalf of the entire Lakewood community I would like to commend the following organizations: Chavierim, EMS, Police, LDC, UEZ, Hatzolah, DPW, Mayor Steeve, DMC, Bikur Cholim, LAC, Fun Unzere, Vaad, LCSW, Buff, TLS, OEM, and All The Way Towing for your tireless work. Keep it up!!!! And of course Hershel 4 mayor

Fritz P. and Mike K.
16 years ago

Zeh chalifosi. Horace Clarke—holy cow!

mekubal
16 years ago

I have it on good authority that when Moshiach comes he will go to Whispering Pines first.

Anonymous
16 years ago

Weather is saying this is pretty much it. Maybe another 2 inches. Wow they called off public school for tomorrow. Such hype!

Fudgie the whale
16 years ago

I guess he will have taken the GSP.

stuck in chicago
16 years ago

im feelin a direct effect of the storm my flight to newark was canceled by continental

blizzard?
16 years ago

Someone told me long ago
there’s a calm before the storm
I know
it’s been coming for sometime…..

I want to know, have you ever seen the snow
I want to know, have you ever seen the snow
coming down a sunny day

pikupashovel
16 years ago

What’s the big deal? Drive slowly, wait for the plows and just shovel a little … Even by the last one it was fine. So you will have to spend more tim than usual inside with ur kids. Just be happy ur healthy and alive B”h!

ah then I saw the snow, now I'm a believer
16 years ago

Hey, Mr. Fortunate son,
just wait a few hours
and you’ll wonder, still you’ll wonder
who’ll stop the snow

Anonymous
16 years ago

any update on the weather out there??

skeptic
16 years ago

He better park the donkey on milton sst.

an.
16 years ago

how do you know that from who?

whisper court
16 years ago

What about us?

12345678
16 years ago

were in oceon county

Anonymous
16 years ago

Lots of board people out there today

spelling bee
16 years ago

I guess I won.

rety
16 years ago

yup

Confused
16 years ago

Bottom line I’m so confused…some reports say an inch some say a foot…880 says a foot for ny…anyone know klar what they’re sayin for lakewood was this whole thing a big hoax?! Please help!

bttrnts
16 years ago

I saw officer butterworth driving a plow

Stuck@home
16 years ago

Wow, look outside… Coming down pretty baaaaaad. Maybe the weather ppl actually got it for once

Plowed In
16 years ago

I liked the snow we had on Shabbos much better. It was so much easier to shovel. Now I have to get rid of the heavy pile of ice that the township truck blocked my driveway with. But, I still like snow, I’m a child at heart.

if anyones bored
16 years ago

please take a moment to call gov crist of florida to save martin grossman

Kish Mir
16 years ago

all the roads to the blueclwas were plowed

Anonymous
16 years ago

Ive been trying to call florida governor the line is busy all day.

JustplainCrazy
16 years ago

4×4 or not you should not be on the roads. Let the plows and such do what they have to do. You make the situation much worse by being on the roads and eventually getting stuck on the side of the road somewhere. Four wheel drive DOES NOT HELP YOU STOP!!!!!!!! Just keep that in mind.

Anonymous
16 years ago

5th and monmouth has 5 cars stuck and hasn’t been plowed in many hours

Big Mitzvah
16 years ago

There are at least two chasunas tonight (epstein and jacobowitz) if the oilem that lives nearby would attend it would make a huge simchos chason vkallah . one is in bais faiga the other in that new chasuna hall . Tizke L’mitzvos

Anonymous
16 years ago

Any news about school for tom?

rety
16 years ago

classy cleaners collapsed

Anonymous
16 years ago

The snow is crazy. The worst snow in years! Though not so deep as December – much thicker- definitly noones having school tommorrow!

StonerJew
16 years ago

I love the snow!

yehuda
16 years ago

any idea how to get to toras aaron for the wedding?

dave
16 years ago

any news on classy cleaners? my suit is there!

ah bisel saichel
16 years ago

Are all Lakewood chasunas cancelled? A chossid claimed that there is no such a thing as cancelling a chasuna because the origanal date is the “mazeldickah shoe”!

loves vacation
16 years ago

I called my school snow number at least 5 times. anyone know what the situation is?

a loyal lakewood exxon customer
16 years ago

to number 7 jd whos wrong who ???

school?
16 years ago

is there school tom?

Anonymous
16 years ago

stay off the roads!

This Just In
16 years ago

Lakewood Public Schools are officially closed tomorrow!

twsp macher
16 years ago

we gota raise taxes this year we have to buy 30 more trucks to make every body happy!!! the cost of a truck is abought 155,000 and well pick u up garbage every day

chap arein a vodka
16 years ago

simchos choson vkallah at your house

ah bisel mer saichel
16 years ago

maybe the new date is the mazeldika shah?

anon
16 years ago

SCHOOL UPDATE

Bnos yaakov is closed