Nor'easter brings flooding, 'typical' damage to Jersey shore
OCEAN CITY, N.J. (WPVI) -- A nor'easter brought the region downpours and high wind. But down at the Jersey shore the storm also brought high water onto roadways.
Most residents in Ocean City are familiar with the flooding usually associated with a nor'easter, and made sure to get their vehicles to high ground.
However, there were still a few unfortunate car owners who found their vehicles window deep at high tide.
Action News spoke with Frank Donato, the Director of the Ocean County Office of Emergency Management, who gave us an assessment of the damage in Ocean City.
Donato says, "Typical nor'easter conditions, but I think overall we faired a little bit better than some of the worst of what the predictions were."
He continued, explaining, "This could have been another half foot higher than this, which would have made it probably a ten year event. But right now we're staying just under that level."
In Atlantic City, the churned up surf was bouncing off the bulkhead at high tide this morning, creating a spray of foam and water.
Early on torrential rain and high winds battered the boardwalk, driving the rain sideways. It was nothing you wanted to be out in, and the boards were all but deserted.
Atlantic City Fire Chief Dennis Brooks says, "We got extremely high tides, six to ten foot surf, and we have flooding in all the usual areas in Atlantic City."
Chief Brooks tells us, "I kind of think it's gonna hang in here due to these winds, it's gonna hold this water in here until the next tide. So it's probably gonna be worse later on."
Battalion Chief Angelo DeMaio explains, "We're still keeping an eye on the weather. The flooding should start to recede a little bit, but we'll start to see it come back tonight. Hopefully not as bad as this, because the wind would help with it."
Right now the flood water is receding, and along with it debris. The hope is that the winds die down, as not to create more problems for the next high tide.
