Greetings From New Jersey (We’ve gone from western drought, extreme heat, wildfires and smoke, to eastern humidity, floods, hail, and tornadoes)
FEMA Blasted NJ Stormwater Regulations
Will They Withold Federal Disaster Funding Until NJ Enacts Real Reforms?
We’re back, but not for long.
Just long enough to dodge tornadoes, violent lighting, and flash floods last night.
About four to six tornadoes touched down Wednesday, including one that prompted the Northeast’s first-ever “tornado emergency,” issued for Trenton, N.J. That’s the most dire type of alert the National Weather Service can issue, warning of an imminent and potentially deadly tornado with unusual strength moving through a major metropolitan area.
That tornado, which the National Weather Service described as “large and extremely dangerous,” struck Burlington County, N.J., just after 7 p.m.; video emerging on social media depicted a Great Plains-style monstrous tornado, a furious whirlwind adorned with armlike vortices protruding horizontally outward. Those tentacle-like tendrils accompany only the strongest tornadoes; debris was lifted to roughly 20,000 feet, ordinarily an indicator of winds 150 mph or greater.
We were in Burlington County, just Southeast of Trenton last night, got the emergency warning, and took refuge in a Walmart building. Another near death experience!
Today, the Washington Post also reports:
I thought that national story deserved some local context that WaPo readers are not familiar with, so, without going into detail and providing links – there are scores of posts on these topics here – I posted the following reader comment:
NJ is one of the worst states in the country in terms of repeat flood claims. NJ is the worst state in building over 4,500 new homes in flood hazard locations AFTER Superstorm Sandy. NJ law provides a “right to rebuild” storm damaged and flooded properties. NJ Gov. Christie Christie embarked on a “rebuild madness” scheme following Sandy, instead of “strategic retreat”. Federal agencies ignored President Obama’s Executive Order on adaptation to climate change, and funded and approved Gov. Christie’s “rebuild madness” plans and fatally flawed coastal rebuild regulations which ignored climate change.
Even FEMA has blasted NJ flood regulations, see:
FEMA FLAYS MURPHY DEP STORMWATER PRPOSAL
http://www.wolfenotes.com/2019/03/fema-flays-murphy-dep-stormwater-proposal/
Time to end federal subsidies to NJ real estate.
We’re out of here!
[Update: While we’re posting photos and criticizing Gov. Murphy and Senate President Sweeney, take a look at what sycophantic NJ Spotlight is posting:
