29yrswithaGApass Posted March 21, 2018 Report Share Posted March 21, 2018 Quote JCP&L says it's preparing for third nor'easter this month Published 8:01 p.m. ET March 20, 2018 | Updated 8:42 p.m. ET March 20, 2018 Asbury Park Press Jersey Central Power & Light is preparing for another intense storm to hit the Jersey Shore, one that is projected to bury some areas with more than a foot of heavy wet snow. JCP&L has opened its command center in Holmdel and has put into place storm and staffing plans to respond appropriately should severe weather cause power outages on Wednesday. FirstEnergy utility crews from Ohio are on the way to the Garden State to help JCP&L's own line workers. Staging sites, which are used to feed, house and supply crews working to restore outages, are being set up in Ocean County, at Great Adventure in Jackson, and at the Livingston Mall in in Essex County. The utility also is staffing additional dispatchers and analysts at regional dispatch offices, checking equipment and vehicles to make sure they are ready for heavy snow conditions and communicating with emergency management officials, state officials, regulators and local officials about storm preparation efforts. Electrical contractors are available in New Jersey to help with restorations efforts too, the utility said. JCP&L is under the pressure. The state Board of Public Utilities has launched an investigation into the utility's response to outages caused by two nor'easters earlier this month. A March 2 nor'easter with high wind gusts brought down utility poles and trees across North Jersey and left 220,000 JCP&L customers without electricity. Prepararations are underway in the parking lot of Six Flags Great Adventure’s Hurricane Harbor in Jackson Township Tuesday afternoon, March 20, 2018, to build a staging area for JCP&L workers. (Photo: Thomas P. Costello) About 17,000 JCP&L customers were still without power when a second storm on March 7 brought heavy, wet snow that also caused power outages. and left more than 350,000 without power statewide, including about 117,000 JCP&L customers. The investigation by the Board of Public Utilities will examine whether JCP&L followed more than 100 protocols the board put in place after Hurricane Irene in 2011 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012. "We obviously have heard the reaction from our customers and our elected officials," utility spokesman Ron Morano said in a recent interview. The first storm hit some areas with more than a foot of snow and high wind gusts that brought down trees and closed roads. "We were well on our way to restoring customers from the first storm when the second storm hit," he said. "It was just another huge impact." The work included clearing trees from more than 5,000 locations, and replacing more than 750 poles, and more than 3,000 spans of wire, amounting to about 51 miles worth of wire. NorthJersey.com contributed to this report. David P. Willis: 732-643-4039; dwillis@gannettnj.com; facebook.com/dpwillis732 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted March 21, 2018 Report Share Posted March 21, 2018 (edited) Looks like they are staging in HH's parking lot. Things are looking really bad for this week. Snow as deep as they are forecasting will probably stick around till Easter weekend. A foot of snow takes a couple of weeks to melt. The 11 news said this could be the worst March snow storm on record and there will be a lot of power outages. Edited March 21, 2018 by The Master Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoshi Posted March 21, 2018 Report Share Posted March 21, 2018 Weather.com is forecasting 1 inch of snow tonight for Jackson, 9 - 12 inches tomorrow and another 3 - 5 inches tomorrow night. That's crazy that they could get up to 18 inches of snow a week and a half before April. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gafreak Posted March 21, 2018 Report Share Posted March 21, 2018 Hopefully this will not affect the opening of the park! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted March 21, 2018 Report Share Posted March 21, 2018 (edited) They will probably postpone opening to next weekend with such deep snow to clear out. With highs only in the 40s and subfreezing nights, it is not going to melt very fast, and when it does there will be deep mud and flooding. Northern climates like ours are cold and snowy for a large part of the year with a short warm season. So on this date last year (03/21), it was 60 degrees which was slightly above normal and sunny, this year its 33 which is well below normal with a foot of snow. We probably won't see 60s for a good time yet to come. Edited March 21, 2018 by The Master Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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