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Christie On LBI: Nor’easter May Be Temporary Setback for Sandy Recovery

New Jersey governor said 11,000 utility workers remain in state, set to respond to any damage brought by storm.

 

A nor’easter set to strike New Jersey Wednesday may cool the state’s post-Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts for a time, Gov. Chris Christie warned during a press conference at Long Beach Island Wednesday.

“We may take a setback in the next 24 hours. You need to be prepared for that,” Christie said.

Power outages may increase during the storm, which is set to bring a heavy, wet snow and wind gusts as high as 55 mph to the state.

However, the governor was hopeful the pause in recovery efforts would be brief. He noted 11,000 utility workers remain in the state and the clear weekend forecast would allow the recovery push to continue in earnest.

“I appreciate that we’re all tired,” Christie said. “I want to get things back to normal as quickly as possible.”

Questioned about President Barack Obama’s victory over Mitt Romney the night before, Christie dismissed critics who accused him of embracing the president during his post-Sandy visit to the state.

“I wouldn't call what I did an embrace of Barack Obama. I'm a guy who tells the truth all the time and if the president of the United States did a good job, I’m going to say he did a good job,” Christie said.

He was also quick to dismiss speculation of 2016 presidential run, saying that the life and death issues inherent with the back-to-back storms have made politics a minor focus for now.

“I've got a job to do in New Jersey. My future, whatever it is will take care of itself. I'm honored to be the governor of New Jersey,” he said.

Related Topics: Hurricane Sandy

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Rick

3:11 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Do you realize that is a form of bullying

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Art Frye

9:02 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

hey that fat boy is going to be your next president like it or not.

TheGreatHoax

1:39 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

We'll need a new photo op with The Great Barack Hussein Obama to save us!

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June

1:42 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

exit polls proved that it most certainly did...

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Suzanne Maison

1:43 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

“I wouldn't call what I did an embrace of Barack Obama. I'm a guy who tells the truth all the time and if the president of the United States did a good job, I’m going to say he did a good job,” Christie said.
This is what makes a Great Govenor. Thank you Govenor. My neighborhood was decimated. I see progress everyday. I see trucks from Ga., Tn., Pa. and more. I see the corrections dept utilizing imates to help with the container loads of debris being picked up every day. Policemen, firemen and a ton of selfless people helping. We still do not have power, but I'm willing to wait. I was lucky, my neighbors and friends weren't so lucky. I think you're doing a great job.

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Pat Spies

4:42 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Well said Suzanne. Thanks for the encouragement!

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Barb Aroneo Roach

5:30 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Thank you for your comment. He is a great Governor and he has worked his butt off to make sure we are safe and everything possible is being done. :-)

John Eric Mangino

1:48 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

He should make a stop at Manahawin - Long beach Island Holiday Inn and straighten there management out
Fema money no good there evicting Victims.
This guy should be President on his on Party The Take no prisoners party . Clearly a historic leader will be written about for the Centurys .

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Rick

3:18 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

The last I heard Holiday Inn is a privately owned business, so unless the Feds buy it and turn it into another GM, the government has no right to tell them they must take anyone in.
Its called the Third Amendment.

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John Eric Mangino

5:53 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

@rick You accept victims and street them like third class citizens Under a corporate name like Holiday Inn You accept a little community responsibility, Evicting Guest in the middle of one the worst disasters isn't my idea of this . Not only have they added to there guest anguish, they have displaced people to homeless level sleeping in there cars . Something wrong with Femas Money Rick ?Or your probably like the vice president candidate everyone fend for them selves attitude . Profit off the weak . Not contribute to relief efforts .Its A discrace Its im moral and close to criminal .
You must be high and dry Rick to make such an absurd statement .

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Rick

8:08 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Pay attention John. I didn't condone or condemn Holiday Inn. What I said was that since it is a privately owned business niether the governor nor the president has the right to tell them they must take the displaced people.
FEMA money is one thing, a FEMA promise to reimburse is another thing.

Joe Carideo

1:48 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Our Governor is a pretty sharp man. He has a tremendous command of our language and its delivery...Joe Carideo

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Katherine Ranuro

1:49 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Yea, Governor Christie -- you're doing a great job!

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L S Resident

1:50 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

This is not a time to be name calling "lths"...this is a time when we come together as human beings ...to help and support each other...name calling is cowardly!! Right on Suzanne!!

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John Eric Mangino

1:52 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Story about Displaced Victums can be read here seeing Our own Patch wont Publish it . And Im a Patch writer for Alameda Patch . I spoke with our Mayor and he was very concerned and is addressing this with Town Administration as well . Stafford Township , Fore front of disaster resonates every action of the Governor and more .
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-877992

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suz

2:34 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

The more stories I hear about FEMA, the more I wonder about their intentions. Shame on the Holiday Inn...Good Luck to all.

Washed ashore

1:56 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Yes Gov Christie thank god we have you in office in NJ. Lord knows what Corzine would have screwed up next. You have balanced the budget, cut spending and made the unions pay more towards their cadillac benefits.

On behalf on all of us, THANK YOU!!

I would be remiss if I didn't also thank the Democrats in NJ who unlike their colleagues in DC know how to cut spending (well at least recently), balance budgets and make unions pay more for their cadillac benefits that the rest of us in NJ are forced to pay instead of paying for our own. Is this a great deal or WHAT?

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John Eric Mangino

3:02 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

@suzzie Fema has been great Just great Its the Holidays inns That are profiting from
The Disaster, Namely The Manahawkin - Long beach island Franchise. It recenty lost its original owner he pasted away current management doesn't have a Clue . The Most Un sensitive front desk management Ive ever seen , Let me say this the Girls that work the desk are great left powerless they make extensions and put people on the extension List and the two managers erase it all . They take the Hurricane victums out of bookings they have made, the cover everything up in fact the morning I decided i had enough and to plan on being evicted. The front desk person charlie had a 26 room cancelation list he covered up quickly when i saw It . When asked well whats all this he replied it None of my business thou he left it on the counter for anyone to see.
I was then called a trouble maker when I asked why my credit card authorization had disappeared for the third day in a row . By the way this is all documented . When i question why they where still booking rooms when the hotel was full of paying victims,
Again I was called a trouble maker , When I asked why they were vetting the rooms of disaster victims again same response . I put my name on the extenstion list every morning at 6:00am and by 10:30 when the mangers came in It was taken off every single day I stayed there . When we booked a New reservation Threw tuesday that two was erased . Explanation You have to speak to Manager

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Carol

3:33 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

If anyone is doubting the efforts to restore power take a ride to the Oceanport Ave parking lot at Monmouth Park Race Track. It is filled with huge tents & rows of pota potties to house & feed the thousands of men & women who have left their warm safe home & families to help restore power. The parking lot in Monmouth Park is crammed with utility trucks, heavy moving equipment & any other vehicle imaginable-
-- THEY ALL HAVE OUT OF STATE PLATES! some have traveled a very long distance to get here.
This morning I saw a caravan of flatbed trucks piled high with transformers, another with phone poles.
So if you should see any of those guys out there, now in this horrific weather, give them a big big THANK YOU ! !
And closing may I say THANK YOU to govenor CHRISTIE for putting his foot where the moon dont shine to get all of this moving !!!

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Toni Cybulski Reisch

3:36 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

I was born and raised in Spring Lake Heights and raised my two sons for 6years in Jersey and to be Jersey proud. They continue to acknowledge Jersey as their roots even tho they have lived in Delaware for 23 years. I have nothing but admiration for Gov. Christie and his greats efforts for the people and Jersey. Toni Cybulski Reisch

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tom twyman

3:37 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

power still out. no signs of utility trucks in wall township manasquan except
the alabama trucks in chase parking light saying that no one will give them orders.
how great is this. total joke. christie should get on top of these utilities. if not union
they dont seem to want them to work

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Rick

5:52 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Sometimes the cause of a power outage isn't in a local neighborhood or town but in another area but in some area that feeds into your local area.

bayway mike

3:53 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

It's like Hirohito saying that Nagasaki was a setback after Hiroshima..

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Jrzgrl1983

4:01 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

@tomtwyman....the utility trucks and men have been ordered not to continue working today for their own safety and health because of the weather.

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Mimi Neuhaus

7:13 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

GOV. CHRISTIE, YOU ARE DOING A GREAT JOB!

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Fran

7:48 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012

I personally think that governor Christie is the best governor that NJ has had in decades. I hope when he is do e getting our state back in order he will run for president and set therest of the country straight.

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kathy willets

10:01 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012

Why is it taking so long to restore power in netcong, nj. This is unbelievable. My poor son has been without power for 10days, in fact the entire apartment complex has no power. In this day and age and with all the technology available this is unforgivable. We are not talking about an area where flooding is an issue. They are inland!! Half a mile down the road there is an apt complex and they have power. What gives??

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Rick

4:56 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012

Its called a grid. Some areas are served from different grids. Perhaps some trees took out the lines going to your son's area. First they have to get the trees out of the way, then make sure that all the lines and houses aren't damaged and that there are no gas leaks in the buildings before they can turn the power back on.

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Peter Koenig

5:07 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012

The trees wouldn't be an issue at all if JCPL weren't stringing wires from wooden poles stuck into the ground. Electrical supply technology has progressed since the 19th century. We don't use knob-and-tube wiring anymore, or loom insulation, or DC current. JCPL must join the rest of the world in the 21st century. Gas leaks? Possible but highly unlikely: gas lines are underground, where the wind doesn't blow them down and trees don't hit them. Wait, I think I have an idea ...

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Rick

7:45 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012

Okay Mt Koenig, I'll start at the end and work back to the first things.
The gas leaks I was refering to would be inside the houses when the power comes back on. Or the gas can build up if pilot lights have gone out.
I live in Settler's Landing where all the utilities are underground. The senior developments west of the parkway all have underground utilities. They all lost power.
There is a limit to the amount of current that can be run underground. Look at the big poles on Lighthouse Rd or along Rt 72. Notice the size of the insulators that are needed to keep the wires from arcing to the poles. Each one of those lines would require a six foot conduit if they were underground.

Oh yeah, there would probably cost a billion or more to put all the existing lines underground. Want that cost added to your electric bill?

Nan Narfe Coll

10:50 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012

It is evident that ignorant sheeples reelected BHO. It does no good to always knock those you oppose and never admit something they did right.
If some of you had a brain you would have recognized immediately that the Gov was doing the expedient thing.
He did what BHO promised in his Inaugural speech - the same Baloney Sandwich he is feeding you again - that he will work with both sides of the aisle. He will work with the Opposition only when they bend to his way and kiss his ring. That is not what our Great Gov did.

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Rick

4:51 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012

The sandwich BHO is feeding the sheeple is nowhere as tasty as boloney. What ever it is has a creek named after.
NO, not oysters.

kathy willets

6:04 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012

Where r these workers..not in North jersey a.d not in Manchester township. I'm a senior citizen

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John Eric Mangino

7:53 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012

Just ask Rick he has answer for everthing Obviously from wht im reading everywhere there is a huge deficit in the work order department , As well as last night they stopped most work for a small no important storm but as well crews needed rest .

Im having the same issue here and im surrounded by houses with power . They have seen it ok to light up a yacht club next to me that had twice the water in it than my house . Yet from that line in on temporary disconnect because im not on the priority list and also there alot work to do on my street so I have to wait But now that ever house and even dog house is lite up tomorrow will bring a new round of phone calls . Every day I wait now I will be subtracting the cost of fuel from my bill . If they can power up long beach island with the devastation there Im sure they can power up a Little street like mine R in railroad means rear of the line .

Rick

3:03 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012

Glad I could help John.
BTW, they are NOT powering up LBI at this point.
And the nor'easter turned out to be a dud compared to what it could have been. OSHA regs prohibit using bucket trucks if the wind is over 40 miles an hour.
(That last tidbit has been on the radio & TV for the past week.)

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John Eric Mangino

8:31 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012

Funny I was on Long Beach Island first day the allowed residents Back Ship Bottom had power alot the island had power . Because they shut the gas Supply off to the whole Island . Tomorrow Island Is open to residents only and A 11:00 Pm curfew will be in effect .http://www.lbieoc.org/

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Bonnie Winters Akey

11:01 am on Friday, November 16, 2012

I'm not certain what any of the above comments from washed ashore have to do with our circumstances in Monmouth County. Isn't it simply a good thing that Pres. Obama and Gov. Christie are doing a good job together?

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Theresa DiChiara

10:14 pm on Sunday, November 18, 2012

so many of you people post on here,with stupid stuff,if you have nothing helpful,or uplifting to say,try keeping your thoughts to yourself,you are taking up space that might be used by one who has something helpful to the readers just saying

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