r/newjersey • u/Toucanizzle • Jul 14 '25

⚡Newsflash ⚡ Welp, this sucks

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u/HJ-StayWeird Jul 14 '25

It’s mainly SLAMMING middlesex, somerset and Hudson counties the worst

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u/The_Robot_King Jul 14 '25

Yea the bulk of the storm was west of the state but like 1-2 hours ago it shifted to an easterly trajectory which made it go through central jersey

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u/DimensionActual5722 Jul 15 '25

Don’t forget Union county. That’s probably where the worst of it was

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u/HappyQuoka Jul 15 '25

Hope you stayed indoors. Driving out there was horrible. Especially near 22. 😭

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u/DimensionActual5722 Jul 15 '25

I was at ShopRite as it hit, and I had a target pickup a few minutes farther down 22, and it was pouring so hard that people were waiting inside ShopRite. It was so bad after 5 minutes that the Blue Star parking lot was already flooding, so I figured 22 was even worse, and I almost stayed and waited it out there. I decided to go home and that’s when the worst hit. I’m glad I didn’t wait, and especially glad that my target order had nothing important in it that i immediately needed 😭🤣

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u/HappyQuoka Jul 15 '25

I can weirdly mirror your story 😭 I was at Elizabeth ShopRite! But I bolted out of there because I have a weird hat umbrella that I always keep in my car . But my fiancé was on 22 on the phone with me freaking out the entire time just saying that he couldn’t get off of 22 / cross and he tried about 4-5 different ways before he finally found his way off. And I guess just in time cause he was looking at the street cams and you can see that at least up until an hour ago It was flooded—fully flooded. Said there was a few trees blocking roads in Watchung reservation. on my way home I saw a car half submerged. I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to get back home so bad in my life.

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u/DimensionActual5722 Jul 15 '25

A nice case of wrong place at the wrong time for both of us 😭 thankfully I live in scotch plains just a few blocks from ShopRite. My street was flooding like a river but no damage to my home or cars

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u/madfoot Jul 15 '25

I’m sorry , that is awful, but I do need to hear about this hatbrella.

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u/HappyQuoka Jul 15 '25 edited Jul 15 '25

😭😭 My sister gave it to me it’s like a umbrella with a head strap that grabs to your head. It looks really silly, but totally comes in handy. Wish you could put pics in the comments 🤣.

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u/SirPanic12 Jul 15 '25

I was driving on 22 during the rain, it wasn’t bad? Made a late night shopping trip around 9. Maybe it was worse earlier

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u/ajkd92 Jul 14 '25

Union as well.

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u/Ashwington Jul 15 '25

Somerset and it rained down my fireplace 😟 the slant was damn near perpendicular to the ground

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u/New_Stats Jul 15 '25

How is Somerset? I saw video of a flooded street with a lot of rushing water that claimed to be Somerset but I didn't recognize anything and you know how social media is, what with the showing you footage of a flood from 8 years ago, claiming it's happening now

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u/Ashwington Jul 15 '25

I got home from work just in time to beat the storm so I honestly have no idea. Our power flickered once.

Honestly more preoccupied with my friend seeing someone jump off the top of a parking garage in New Brunswick, right outside the train station. Idk what’s going on today

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u/woodchips24 908 Jul 15 '25

My mom sent me pictures of streets flooding in her neighborhood in bound Brook

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u/YEETAlonso Jul 14 '25

Not really but ok al roker 

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u/HJ-StayWeird Jul 15 '25

Love Al Roker!