Freehold Starts to Get Back to Normal After Hurricane Sandy
Tell us how getting back into your normal day-to-day routine is going.
Freehold residents have been through a lot in the past two weeks, but it looks like normalcy is starting to come back to town as the lights come on and children head back into the classroom. For the first time in weeks, JCP&L’s outage map shows minimal outages in Freehold with all of Freehold Borough restored and less than five outages currently reported in Freehold Township. Freehold students are also getting back into the swing of things by heading back to the classroom for their first full week of classes in November. During Hurricane Sandy, all students in Freehold were forced to miss seven days of school due to lack of power and down wires and trees. Freehold Borough students saw some class time last week with a half day on Wednesday …
Joseph W.
1:20 pm on Monday, November 12, 2012
Huricane Sandy and the 13 inches of snow the following week were more of an inconvenience for me, rather than a hardship. My gas stovetop worked with a match, and to my complete surprise the gas hot water heater continued to function when the power went off. So for the five days without electricity, I at least had hot meals and hot showers. In preparation for Hurricane Irene in 2011, I purchased … more ›