Glad to see my fellow Pelican, are ok. Especially Ron. I know his area well. Cant be in a worse spot.
Got pretty lucky myself, few broken trees, some fence damage. Nothing major.
My search and rescue team was activated Sunday to prep everything. Monday night we were deployed to Atlantic city and Seaside for evacuation and rescue assignments. Loaded up our water recue equipment and shot down there. it was pretty bad. The storm was about at its peak at that point. Indescribably dangerous stuff to work in. Took loads of people out of homes and stranded cars.
This idiot got impatient and decided he didnt want to wait behind our convoy going over the Seaside bridge that night and drove along the shoulder to pass us. problem, shoulder was washed away. had to save his drowning ass.
Tuesday we were sent up to Little Ferry and Moonachie NJ , the levee along the Hackensack river busted, and flooded the town under 5 ft of water monday night.
We took 480 peopl out of their homes by boat and military trucks by the end of the day the water subsided some.
Made the front page of most of the news outlets.
We are the boat crew in the beginning and end of this one.