{"id":7411,"date":"2016-01-23T09:01:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T14:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=7411"},"modified":"2016-01-23T09:28:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T14:28:39","slug":"nearly-10000-brick-homes-lose-power-strong-waves-lash-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/01\/nearly-10000-brick-homes-lose-power-strong-waves-lash-beaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 10,000 Brick Homes Lose Power, Strong Waves Lash Beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A snow-covered local street. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

Brick residents woke up to about a foot of snow Saturday morning \u2013 and, in many cases, dark homes.<\/p>\n

Power outages were numerous throughout Ocean County, with Jersey Central Power & Light company reported 9,718\u00a0households currently out of power in the township as of 9 a.m. There are about 30,000 households town-wide.<\/p>\n

Roads were mostly impassable, according to the Ocean County Sheriff\u2019s Department, though plow crews from both the county and township were\u00a0fighting a war of attrition against the storm, which was still producing falling and blowing snow in some areas and sleet in others. In many cases, mobile data was moving at a snail\u2019s pace, a product of overusage as most in-home Internet connections were down.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease do not drive until further notice,\u201d the Sheriff\u2019s Department said in an announcement. \u201cAll roads are covered with at least a foot of snow. 4\u00d74 vehicles are also getting stuck.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Seaside Heights beachfront, Jan. 23, 2016. (Photo Credit: Jean L. Coccaro\/Seaside Heights Board\/Facebook)<\/p>\n

Residents in waterfront neighborhoods largely made it through the first of three risky high tide periods relatively unscathed, though each tide cycle was predicted to get progressively worse. During the first high tide period, waves were reportedly lashing a beach berm in Seaside Heights in the northern section of the borough and had reached the boardwalk in the southern section of town, according to Seaside Heights Borough Administrator Christopher Vaz.<\/p>\n

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Brick residents woke up to about a foot of snow Saturday morning \u2013 and, in many cases, dark homes. Power outages were numerous throughout Ocean County, with Jersey Central Power & Light company reported 9,718\u00a0households currently out of power in the township as of 9 a.m. There are about 30,000 households town-wide. Roads were mostly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[890,24,435],"class_list":["post-7411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shore-environment","tag-blizzard","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-noreaster"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4928.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-1Vx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}