September 7,2017
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, hurricanes are in season so we asked Ridgewood Mayor Susan Knudsen has the Village enhanced its hurricane response since hurricane Sandy ? During Sandy it seemed the only Village Hall response was to blame PSEG while Mount Carmel Church took on the brunt of the relief work and received little to no credit .
Hi James,
The Village is well organized and prepared for the possibility of severe hurricane conditions. Upon confirmation of the hurricane path, our OEM team will meet and begin mobilizing all necessary resources to ensure the safety and well-being of Village Residents. Protecting Ridgewood residents remains paramount and deployed resources will support this primary objective.
Information will be disseminated utilizing an array of enhance communications and, as always, by asking fellow residents to share information forward and to check in on the elderly and home-bound.
Ridgewood’s relationship with PSE&G has been significantly strengthened over the past year as part of an important initiative to work collaboratively with the utility. However, Ridgewood acknowledges PSE&G must prioritize efforts to restore power during widespread outages.
I have great confidence in our Village Manager, Ridgewood Police, Fire, EMT’s, professionals and dedicated staff to manage any weather event.
Finally, the efforts, assistance, and generosity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and others, is always greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
Susan
This says nothing
One thing the Village could do that would be helpful would be to create a page where houses of worship, individuals and the Village could post offers of aide. It would be great to centralize those efforts so people know what help is available and where to find it. Facebook might be a way to do that.
Those of us lucky enough to keep power last time had friends come over for a hot meal, shower and to charge phones but would be happy to open those efforts up more broadly…
A better relationship with PSEG? Jackhammers have started promptly at 7:30am every morning, roadblocks and detours constricting the flow of traffic, and LOTS of ‘revenue opportunities’ for the RPD to pick up easy cash watching traffic go by their idling cruisers.
What, who is informing the mayor of this. Maybe the police department, Fire department, emergency services, are full of staffing, but as for all the other departments are understaffed. Someone is definitely missing forming the village mayor and council. The village never replaced all of the other members that retired that had all the experience with dealing with storms like this. They only have handful of workers that have experience dealing with major storms. Tell me I’m a village resident taxpayer where can I go and pick up 12 sandbags right now, yeah I thought so the village don’t have any. Because already made phone calls and searching, there aren’t any, I was told go buy my own real nice. Like I said The council and mayor or misinformed, where are they getting there information from. I will be conducting my own investigation on personnel and equipment thank you.
I was told to go to emergency services to pick up sandbags is Distro in the village make some kind of an announcement on reverse 911 on picking up sandbags thank you
The emergency management department in other town ,s have sand bags for town residents who would like to help them selfs in picking them up and filling them up at a site. I would think we would go to graydenpool site , i don’t know who to call .any one knows please post
Thank you
People don’t wait for the for the. Authorities to tell you what to do. get your head out of your ass and go to Home Depot what I just did. And start preparing yourself we are in hurricane season. The storm is about 1500 miles away from us right now, it may or may not come up but if it does we can be somewhat prepared. I just bought flashlights, batteries , Water, dry goods, pick up food that doesn’t need to be refrigerated, your medicine, fill your car is up at the house, make sure you have your cell phone charged , have some cash. And if you have a generator and fuel, and I’m sure a few other things start now don’t wait because of the storm is coming to us by this weekend it’s going to be a free-for-all in the stores and you will get caught with your pants down and you don’t want that yours truly your friend just trying to help
U see that’s thinking , why is it we are not hearing from anyone from village hall or emergency services on preparing for hurricane season. Are they going to just wing it.
Minor technicality. No rain in forecast for Ridgewood until next Wednesday.Lets calm down.
Taxpayer, 3:33 owns a hardware store. you will have to forgive his product placement post.
Nice ?
Don’t forget to stock up on your toilet paper. ?
I’m actually surprised that the top officials don’t put out some Notification regarding reminding residence that we are in Hurricane season that all of us should do some kind of preparing, just like if we can have a blizzard. Don’t wait last minute . I just find it funny because they put out so many notices and I have a ties to residence remembering them informing them to buy you a green pool badges for the season, isn’t that funny, that’s how you’re thinking What a shame
The comment on needing a site for information and offers of help is very accurate. Most of the severely damaged small towns in Texas did post a facebook page. Individuals from undamaged areas posted what help, and equipment they could provide. A central place was designated for all volunteers to go and be told where what they could provide would do the most good. Posts of where water, food, and supplies could be obtained as they became available were also posted. If anyone needs an example go to Port Aransas or Rockport, Texas’s Harvey facebook pages. They were the two small coastal towns where Harvey actually came ashore with the 140 MPH winds and are close to 75% destroyed. I’m sure Florida is setting up similar sites but those in Texas are actually running at the present time.
I think we are in a pretty wealthy and highly educated town where people should be leading out on how to prepare for a hurricane and some of the valid points are in the post 3.33 above and I expect the village to take care of their share and suppliment some hell to the residents. For people that have experience or ideas please forward to the village and help. Don’t just bitch anyone can do that but bigger people help solve.