Hurricane Sandy

UPDATE: Christie Predicts FEMA Will Scale Back Flood Maps

Governor provides update on rebuilding, with focus on flood maps and Blue Acres buyout, and plenty of anecdotes

Gov. Chris Christie predicted the Federal Emergency Management Agency will scale back tough new flood maps it issued last December, according to news reports. Those maps place many more properties in flood zones, requiring many of them to be elevated if their owners don't want to see flood insurance rates soar, according to reports. The initial FEMA flood maps, which could create thousands more in insurance premiums and have residents raising their houses feet off the ground, are "too aggressive," said Gov. Christie at Thursday's town hall meeting. He was addressing a packed crowd of officials and residents in the Hurricane Sandy damaged town of Manasquan, and Christie returned to the complicated and controversial topic of what would …

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12:16 pm on Sunday, March 24, 2013

@ clamdigger, prior to the release of the preliminary maps expected in August, municipalities that are NFIP participants will be provided with a work map to identify "obstructions" to wave activity within their boundaries. It is to the benefit of the municipalities and their residents to provide FEMA with "solid" information that can be included in the overland wave propagation component of the …   more ›

Hurricane Sandy

Sign Up To Attend Christie Town Hall Meeting in Manasquan

Governor coming to high school gymnasium Thursday March 21

Gov. Chris Christie is coming to Manasquan March 21, to hold another town hall meeting focusing on the governor's agenda and recovery after Hurricane Sandy. The event will be held in the gymnasium of Manasquan High School, 167 Broad Street, Manasquan, NJ 08736. Doors will open at 3:15 p.m. and the event is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. The Manasquan High School gymnasium will host residents from around the state, and the governor's office has asked attendees to first register. Seating is on a first come, first serve basis and open to the public. Please RSVP by clicking here. With more than 100 town halls held state-wide during his term as governor, Christie will aim to again recreate his conversational event Thursday, opening with a speech …

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B. Ogrady

4:13 pm on Thursday, March 21, 2013

Raising Dunes did not protect my beach front home. All it did was have more sand to go through peoples homes and pile up on the street to be hauled, cleaned and put back on the beach. A higher home with a cement foundation and storm shutters is what saved my home.   more ›

After 100 Christie Town Hall Meetings, Belmar's Was the Longest

100th Town Hall was held yesterday in Manahawkin

At 129 minutes, the "town hall" meeting Gov. Chris Christie held in Belmar this winter has the distinction of being the longest of the 100 town hall meetings the governor has led. In marking the 100th event, the governor's office announced how the town halls — which feature the governor surrounded by seated New Jerseyans as he gives a speech and answers audience questions — have stacked up. For example more than 1,100 have attended and asked questions of the governor. Belmar made the list of notable town halls, in that it was the longest, clocking in at 129 minutes in a packed Belmar Borough Hall on Main Street. The town halls are held throughout the state where ever the governor schedules them, and more than 30,000 people have attended, …

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Christie Holding Town Hall Meeting in Belmar Thursday

Continues 'Town Hall' meetings with public, this time in Hurricane Sandy devastated borough

Gov. Chris Christie will continue his "town hall" meetings, holding a public event Thursday in the hurricane-damaged borough of Belmar. Throughout his administratrion the governor has held many of these town hall meetings, holding events to speak with the public and interact with local citizens as Christie promotes "the Jersey Comeback." These days the dialogue has turned to coming back from the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, which destroyed large areas of the state, including Thursday's town hall host town, Belmar. The borough saw more than a thousand homes flooded by the storm, said Mayor Matt Doherty, and the boardwalk was uplifted by the storm surge and destroyed. The town hall meeting is Thursday, Dec. 20 at 3 p.m. Doors open at 2:15…

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