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November 8, 2012 by Blogfinger
November 8, 2012 by Blogfinger
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Thanks Nancy C
PS – if you commute by public transportation to NYC, check out http://www.clevercommute.com – it is a free service that shares information among commuters, and is incredibly helpful during “normal” times, and has been on the spot, like Blogfinger, during the last two weeks.
I just saw on nj.com that NJTransit hopes to restart service from Long Branch to NYC by Friday. WooHOO!!
About NY commute: I have been taking the free bus from PNC Arts Center. It is load and go from 6 am to 10 am. Direct to Port Authority. When you get to Arts Center, follow the signs to Academy Bus Park n Ride. Free parking. About 2 hrs from OG to Port Authority. Info on NJTransit web site.
For those of you that have been commuting to NYC, can you post how you are getting there.
Thanks.
Yes, I saw lights last night on Embury east of Central.
Does anyone know if the power is back on Embury Ave, between Ocean and Central?
Comment: And on the 11th day, the goddess of Power smiled down upon us. Just letting you know that the stretch of Abbott Ave. nearest the beach now has electricity. (We are at 17 Abbott) My daughter Julianna and I arrived home from a grocery-shopping excursion in the afternoon and were shocked to find every single light in the house ON!! Amen! We are so grateful. Kudos on your comprehensive storm coverage. What a long, strange stretch it’s been.
Nagles opened today, Friday.
Hi there:
Love your blog updating on all things Ocean Grove. As someone who has spent their summers their entire life at the Jersey Shore, and particularly Ocean Grove and Asbury Park – I wanted to see what OG organizations needed volunteers to help with cleanup. As a resident of Hoboken now, we would like to come down and help on the weekends however necessary- please let me know names/sites of orgs – I know many Hoboken residents who call OG “Hoboken South” during the summer and we’d love to do whatever is necessary.
Thanks!
Jen Icklan
On Thursday Nagles told me they were ordering food to reopen on Friday.
Dear Paul and Blogfinger folks:
This is just a note to tell you how much I enjoy your blog. I don’t live in OG but have always loved the town and have spent some time there the last few summers. I discovered Blogfinger last year and have since then enjoyed it thoroughly, especially your fine reporting, beautiful photos and inspired music.
Anyway, I have been reading it since the storms to see how OG is doing; sometimes it’s hard to tell through mainstream media. I know you were hard hit and I’m sure it has been difficult to document the damage but I want to thank you for your work. I am reassured from reading your blog that OG, and the shore, will survive. Keep up the great work, and best of luck in the difficult days ahead.
Liz McCoy
Maplewood NJ
Does anyone know if Starving Artist or Nagels is open and serving food? Thanks!!!
Barbara, my wife of 52 years, and I both spent much of our youth in Ocean Grove. She was a summer resident and I lived in Bradley Beach but spent most of my time in the Grove. We are so appreciative of the reporting that you have done with respect to Sandy and the excellent photographs and you have posted. We currently live in Columbia, MD and had been very concerned about the amount of damage that had been done at the Grove but really didn’t have a good source of information about what was happening. Your blog has been an excellent resource for us to use. I can’t tell you how much we appreciate your effort. It is certainly terrible to see the damage that has been done but so good to see everyone pulling together to get things turned around. Thank you again for your fine work.
Robert M. Heydt
Hi,
First, I’d like to thank you so much for conveying such critically important (and well written) information on your blog. As an OG homeowner who lives elsewhere during the week, your blog has provided such peace of mind.
Very quick question that I hope you can answer. Is gas readily available? I’m planning on driving to OG this weekend and want to make sure I’ll be able to fill up my tank before I go home.
Thank you so much for everything!
-Aliza
EDITOR’S NOTE: Gas is readily available, but I think the odd-even rules still prevail
“I keep forgetting you are not the NY Times…”
Come on, these guys blow the Times away.
Please add me to your e mail list. My husband and I live in ocean grove but we are at our winter home now. Thank you so much for keeping informed with all of your info ,pictures and ideas. We are so sad to see what the storm did to our lovely little town but it will be wonderful again:)
I keep forgetting you are not the NY Times…and I check your site every hour expecting a new update. That said…you may as well be with the amount of information and updates your staff gets out to all of us OGers near and far! Along with everyone else, thank you for the wonderful job you are doing. Thanks a million!
I hope these piles of sand (burms) can provide some temporary protection from the next storm for those houses that were hit the hardest on Broadway, Ocean and Abbott Avenue. We have not recovered from this first storm and still do not have electricity, heat and hot water,
Please remember these residents still need help with food, shelter, etc. Please check on these residents to see what they need at this time. They desperately need a support system especially moral support and prayers.
Comment: I have been coming to OG for many years, and the Jersey Shore has been a part of my life since I was 5 (during the early years I was in Lavallete). In fact I am the third generation to keep up the tradition.
In any case I have been reading the blog and I was praying during the storm that God would save the Grove. I live in CT and I am too far away to help, but God will find a way to bring things back to normal. He always does for those that serve him as many people in OG do. Amen.
Comment: We’re so glad to find such through coverage of Ocean Grove.
We live in Minneapolis now, but have always loved the Jersey Shore, and Ocean Grove especially. With Hurrican Sandy and the news reports of incredible damage throughout the eastern seaboard, we’ve been wondering what happened at our little section of the shore!
From the looks of things, Ocean Grove is in good hands and in the process of making a comeback.
Anyone have any information regarding electricity on Surf Ave?
Still don’t have any and the nights are getting colder.
Now I’m worried about my pipes!!
I grew up in OG in the 30’3 and 40’s, my mother’s family from the turn of the century (the last one). Lots of memories. Thank you so much for posting these pictures. I hope all can be recovered and repaired.
Rosetta (Purvis) Wood
I believe this applies to NJ as well…if it does it might be a useful link…see below.
Trish
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/homeowners-could-save-thousands-deductibles-after-sandy-1C6808930
Well… I know you and Eileen are ok from all
your great reporting and photos!
I have OG BLOG in position on my toolbar and have
been clicking in for any updates from you every other
hour the past days…
But sign me up for the Grover List of alerts –
Thanks for being the mother ship headquarters
of up to the minute info sending out to far and
many people everywhere! Much appreciated!
Best –
10 Delaware Ave
If you can deliver Township Public Statement Flyers to Ocean Grove residents by 7pm tonight please call me at: 732-869-1202. or 908-510 1068
Sherry Sotnikoff
Ocean Grove Citizen’s Patrol
Please add us to your e-mail list. Thank you for such wonderful job in
keeping us “at a distance” OGrovers informed.
Bonnie & Don Bergey
Per friend on Milford in Shark River Hills..no power YET!
You have been my best source of info on my hometown neighborhood of Shark River Hills/Neptune. Any word on power being restored in the Hills? My brother still lives there and info is sketchy. He lives on Prospect Ave closer to Brighton. We know his house is came through fine but would love to hear that he has heat and lights again.
Comment: First of all, thank you so much for this wonderful blog! It is so much appreciated.
Question, do you know if there are any Volunteer efforts being coordinated this weekend? I live in Bergen county but will be down at my Ocean Grove condo over the weekend, and I will be very happy to help with any cleanup efforts. I was wondering if you might suggest whom I can write to to find out if they need any help.
Thank you so much,
Leslie
EDITOR’S NOTE: Leslie: You can call the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Assoc. 732 775 0035 —PG
Stay informed w/ you 24/7. Only accurate information I believe.
I heard Seaside Heights lost almost 20 feet of their beach. How about OG? Can’t get down to see myself and was wondering.
Anybody hearing anything about when the remainder of us may be getting power back? Still don’t have it on Embury between Ocean and Central.
I reading that some towns in NJ are further postponing or canceling Halloween outright. Any word on whether Neptune/OG are doing the same. My kids are dying to get out there in their costumes.
Comment: I’d like to subscribe to the “Grover list” as described below. Please confirm, or tell me what else I need to do. Thanks, and high compliments on this great endeavor. MG
Dear Blogfinger,
I grew up in Neptune in the 60’s and 70’s, beached daily at 7th Ave pool and beach in Asbury, and worked on the boardwalk at Ducky’s, my uncle’s wonderful hot dog place, in the 1980’s. I left the area in the late 80’s and now reside outside Philly. Recently, my family and I bought a condo next to the Beach House (Pitman Ave) and are so thrilled to be part of the OG community. My parents, brother and relatives are all in the immediate OG area and so getting news about the storm and its aftermath was so helpful this past week. You have been a beacon of information, humanity and humor. Thank you so much for helping me stay informed during this difficult time – I often gave information you shared to my parents further inland in Neptune – gas stations, road closures, etc And because of your site, we knew about the OG cleanup and were able to come and help. And that felt great, too.
Please subscribe me to the Grovers List. I look forward to following the blog and participating fully in the OG community.
Hi all…and, thanks again for the info.
I keep getting conflicting info from various sources including FEMA and am wondering if FEMA will offer any help to those of us who had no flood insurance and have a second home in OG that was damaged. I would fully expect primary residences to be handled immediately but was hoping against hope that there might be some help for us down the road at least.
Comment: Thanks so much for your thorough and funny and gorgeous and amazing blog. So glad to have found it. We have been thinking and worrying about OG since before the storm, even though we’ve got plenty of our own tsuris here in Essex County. It’s nice to be able to “take a look around”, even though the sights are sad.
Best wishes for the recovery.
Is the power back on Mt Carmel way and all of OG? This devastation is so so sad. I have had a summer home there for over 30 years.
I’m hearing that below 195 – for example, Brick – there really is not issue with getting gas – no rationing, no lines…just have to get to a station that has power. Anybody else hearing the same. Also hearing the same about stations on Route 9 in Howell.