I spoke to some people today and they're like we haven't seen this happen in like 50 years,' resident Yash Shah said.Īnd when the flood waters eventually receded there was more chaos, as a fire erupted from a manhole on Bloomfield Avenue. Cellphone video shows one woman trying to get to her car, with water up to her knees. The town recorded some of the highest rain totals at just under 5 inches. It also rushed through downtown Caldwell. 'I promise you we're gonna work together to try to find every available resource we can.'

'We're mobilizing as much as we can at the state level and we gotta try to get the feds here,' said Murphy. Governor Phil Murphy toured a neighborhood Monday afternoon as the lingering rain made cleanup even more difficult. 'The worst part about it is I'm standing in my house looking through the window watching the water come in and not being able to do anything about it.' 'We lost everything in our house,' one distraught homeowner said. The majority who were rescued were given food and something to drink.įrom Neptune to Lakewood, social media video shows how bad the shore areas got slammed with over a half-foot of rain in a very short amount of time. A police drone flew over homes that were destroyed by dirty and destructive flood waters which rose so fast, people who've lived there for 25 years tell CBS2 they'd never seen anything like it.Ĩ0 people in the Briarcliff community were rescued by fire boat on Monday, the rain falling so fast they had little time to react.

On top of the rain over the weekend, it's created a messy, dangerous, and costly situation in New Jersey.īrick Township was among several municipalities to declare a state of emergency. NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Eight inches of rain fell in some areas Monday.

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