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Village of Ridgewood Office of Emergency Management: Vehicles left on the street overnight will be ticketed and towed

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Ridgewood NJ, Jeremy P. Kleiman OEM Coordinator and Keith Kazmark Village Manager :

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NJDOT Travel Advisory : Commercial Vehicle Travel Restriction on Multiple Interstate Highways in New Jersey

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Twp of Washington NJ, Commissioner Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti has issued a commercial vehicle travel restriction on multiple Interstate highways in New Jersey starting tonight at 12 midnight, Friday, February 25 based on the forecast for snow in North Jersey and sleet and freezing rain throughout the state.

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Ida’s Total Damage to Reach $95 Billion

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Ridgewod NJ, AccuWeather Founder and CEO Dr. Joel N. Myers today announced AccuWeather has increased its estimate of total damage and economic loss from Hurricane Ida from $70-80 billion, which AccuWeather issued on Monday, to about $95 billion or one-half of a percent of the national gross domestic product, meaning Ida will cause a notable negative impact on the U.S. economy for the third and fourth quarter.

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UPDATE: Sept 1st, 2021 Village of Ridgewood Council Meeting CANCELLED

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Ridgewood NJ, because of the severity of the storm that is scheduled to impact the area Wednesday night, the Village Council Meeting has been cancelled.

This Work Session has been rescheduled for 9/8/2021 at 5:30 p.m.  The Village Council’s Regular Public Meeting will be held on 9/8/2021 at 8:00 p.m.

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PSE&G : Downed wires should always be considered “live”

Linwood Ave at Washington Township Boarder Shut Down due to Fallen Tree Monday

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PSE&G Statewide and Bergen County Update

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Ridgewood NJ, PSE&G state wide storm update as of 4pm December 25th :

Strong winds and hazardous gusts throughout PSE&G’s service territory caused downed trees, branches and wires. As of 4 p.m., approximately 5,800 of our 2.3 million customers were without service. The majority of those customers are in Bergen County.

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PSE&G Reports Restoring Power to 185,000 Customers

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Ridgewood NJ, PSE&G Storm update: As of 10 a.m. #PSEG crews have restored power to approximately 185,000 customers affected by the storm. We are coordinating mutual aid with out-of-state utility companies to help restore power to the roughly 55,000 customers still affected.
The restoration process gives priority to returning service to as many customers as quickly as possible; repairs are made based on the number of customer affected. For local estimated restoration times, visit https://spr.ly/6188Exskr and click on the outage map.

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Under Ground Electric Fire Results is Closure of East Ridgewood Ave and Evacuation of Starbucks

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Under Ground Electric Fire Results is Closure of East Ridgewood Ave and Evacuation of Starbucks

Storm Update as of 11:00 PM
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11:06 PM

Ridgewood NJ, A smoky fire in an underground electric vault on East Ridgewood Avenue near Starbucks resulted in the closure of East Ridgewood Avenue between Walnut Street and Cottage Place on Thursday night.  PSE&G personnel arrived shortly after 10:30 PM to facilitate repairs.

Ridgewood PD and FD responded.  No power outages were reported in the area, but Starbucks was evacuated and closed early due to smoke entering their basement through an underground conduit.
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Storm Update as of 9:00 PM

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Storm Update as of 9:00 PM
July 3,2014
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9:08 PM 

Reports from around Ridgewood – 

Ridgewood NJ, The HoHoKus Brook has overflowed into the Graydon South parking lot, Vets Field, the RHS Athletic Field, and is beginning to encroach on the parking lot at the rear of Village Hall & the Ridgewood Public Library.

Several reports were received by Ridgewood PD that lawn chairs were seen floating down East Ridgewood Avenue into the intersection at Maple.  Similar reports were received about chairs in the middle of the intersection of Franklin and North Maple Avenues.

Trees down on Corona Place, several motor vehicles were damaged.

Reports of tree limbs down on Waverley Place and Norman Drive.

No reports received yet about conditions along the Saddle River.

Stay safe everyone.