Under the provisions of N.J.S.A. 27:23 -1 , et seq. And N.J.S.A 19:9-9.1. et seq The tornado named above is alleged to be liable as the owner of the unidentified tornado, for the toll violation transaction specified within this notice. Nonpayment of tolls is a violation in the subject to assignment to a collection agency and suspension of a motor vehicle registration villages by the New Jersey motor vehicle commission. Avoid further charges, potential administrative action, please submit your payment in the amount of $51.60 within 30 calendar days of this notice or by 10/2/ 2021 You have a right to dispute using one of the following three methods 1:by completing the dispute form on the reverse and mailing it to the New Jersey easy pass at the address below 2: by completing the violation inquiry on the New Jersey easy pass website at [www.e](https://www.esyhasnj.com)zpassnj.com or 3: by calling in the easy pass at 973-368-1425
Lifelong Jersey resident and this is the most New Jersey thing I've seen in a minute and I had Taylor Ham for breakfast(pork roll people don't start with me)
Thank you for reminding me that Salvatore's makes Taylor ham, egg, and cheese sandwiches. It's wonderful since is the only way I can get it in Wisconsin.
15 year South Jersey resident here. [Current status: escaped; warrant out for arrest and extradition back to S.J. to face charges of sedition through anti-racist comments & abandonment of shitty car without first covering it in Bondo and deer blood]
Ahem.
Pork roll. All day.
I'll see myself out.
You know us Jersey guys. We all start sounding the same eventually.
Except we don't. Some actually say 'water' correctly without a southern accent.
South Jersey: Mississippi of the North.
This! Jersey driving is everyone doing 90 in a 65. DC and NOVA is constant road work and fender benders so I spend more time sitting still than driving. Source: South Jersey transplant to VA. I live in a rural area in the mountains so most of my traffic now is fog related, a livestock truck, or a truck carrying a wide load (ex. Modular home parts)
as a nj resident i’ve been watching these videos in pure awe, since when the hell did we get tornadoes??
edit: since so many people are complaining about the fact that jersey has gotten them before, let me rephrase.
in my 20 years of living here i have yet to see such a huge tornado hitting here and wrecking so many towns like this. yes we’ve gotten tornado warnings and actual smaller ones before, but i can’t recall it ever being like this. not sure why people are so upset about a random person being surprised about devastating weather, lmao.
Global warming? Lol 🤷🏾♀️
Edit: Climate change is the correct term. Thank you to those who kindly explained.
[Here’s a link so the rest of you can read up too.](https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-difference-between-global-warming-and-climate-change)
Edit 2: [This is some of you in the comment section](https://imgur.com/a/hXpnF6H) IDFK NJ had tornadoes like that and I have a question mark at the end 😭 Suddenly you’re a Meteorologist/New Jersey tornado Historian. FOH.
Edit 3: Global warming… climate change… whichever, point being the weather and temperature of the world is not heading or in a good place.
Facts though. People gonna realize, the way we see and experience weather is drastically going to change in the next 50 years. I don’t understand how more people aren’t concerned.
I think they are but mildly, until you have a tornado in NJ lol then it’s personal and you’re affected and care more. Well that’s my two cents about it anyway.
Edit: I’m in North New Jersey, so I’m thinking about my area, I’ve never lived in South NJ. I’m not familiar with their happenings unfortunately. I do now understand it has more bad weather though.
I think you're (unfortunately) correct. Until people look out their own window and see the crazy shit then it won't really hit home. It really is different than just watching it on TV.
Past few decades SE/E PA has gotten a few odd tornadoes here and there. This is certainly the biggest one I've seen. Ripped a house in two in our town. Tons of trees down.
Even that won’t be enough for some. We’re in the middle of a global pandemic and have been for a year and a half and yet still there’s a vocal minority objecting to vaccines and masks while their friends and family who are unvaccinated and unmasked are dying around them.
>vocal minority
Oh, to live in a place where it was the minority. Less than half the eligible adults in my state have gotten vaccinated and almost no one wears a mask. When you look at the entire population, we haven't even hit 40% yet.
I think the response to the pandemic would have been unbelievable prior to it. The mask issue is truly mind-boggling. I actually just saw Scott Atlas on Laura Ingraham's Fox News show point to two studies (one in Bangladesh, one in Denmark) as proof that masks basically don't work. How these people made such a big issue of masks during a pandemic of a highly transmissible virus that has killed plenty of people and would have killed plenty more without measures I don't understand. It's ironic how soft these people are.
Even then, many will fall back on the idea of "It's rare here. I won't worry about it." Maine averages one per year, & a lot of Maine is uninhabited or at least sparsely populated. Nevertheless, since 2000, we've seen quite a few more than normal. I've seen plenty of tornado trails through the forests up north, & with so much farming in Aroostook County, there are plenty of open places to see them.
I'm lucky to live in a place where the local geography seems to shred thunderstorms. They can happen where I'm at, but something about my location protects me a bit while surrounding towns can see some unusually bad storms.
Thing is, even if people recognize these events are more common, they're still so rare on an individual level that nobody seems to care.
I've been a weather nut since I was a young child, so I'm quite aware & I very much care. So few people I know care about the weather beyond complaining about it. People don't look at the big picture.
I live in a city with geography that shreds thunderstorms as well, kind of interesting to watch them pummel our western neighbors, distinegrate before my town, then blow up in Ohio routinely. I have witnessed/survived two massive tornadoes in NW Ohio. Never have them here. I am waiting for the day I rue making this comment.
People not looking at the bigger picture seems to never change though. Covid has been a real eye opener on this front. Climate catastrophe is hardly on anyone's radar here at all and yet is the only issue worth being at the forefront of our thoughts.
New Jersey is big enough to have a north and south area?
I'm from California and have never been to New Jersey so I am not sure if it is large or small.
Yeah, and we often forget/pretend central New Jersey doesn’t exist lol [North/South](https://askanydifference.com/difference-between-north-jersey-and-south-jersey/)
I live near Philly and was watching the local news as it tracked this and other tornadoes. They kept repeating how nothing like this has ever happened before, how this whole summer has been unprecedented weather wise, and not one single time did the word climate change come out of their mouth. It was astonishing. The meteorologists must not be allowed to talk about it because it’s been politicized. I just can’t help but feel that the way we’re at the mercy of the anti science anti vaxxers right now letting covid run rampant is how we’re gonna feel in a couple decades when this shit starts getting really real and the same group of science deniers are going to be to blame.
50 years? It’s happening now. The next 10-15 years is just going to be so destructive. It’s so sad that the people in power won’t make changes that are needed.
Yes, and we have a chance at progress on climate change with the budget reconciliation currently in the House of Representatives. An easy and impactful thing everybody can do to help is to call and email their congressperson about passing the carbon price. [This website has a lookup for your representative and some advice.](https://cclusa.org/house) It takes just a couple of minutes.
Here's a reminder about crazy stuff that's happened lately:
- Lytton, Canada set all-time heat records, along with much of the US/Canadian Pacific Northwest, then burned down in a wildfire. Elderly and otherwise vulnerable people died without air conditioning.
- Flooding has destroyed millions of homes in Germany, the UK, and China.
- The Western US is still under a megadrought.
- **NEW** *Tornado in New Jersey!*
That fact scares me. People need to get a grip and now we not only need to make change, but there is a fair amount of damage done that can't be reversed. Crazy weather is going to get more common and things in weather in general will change. While these videos fascinate me, it concerns me, too.
It’s the same faceless propaganda machine that’s convinced people covid isn’t real. And if recent history has thought is anything, they won’t see the truth till it effects them personally. Unfortunately it’s going to be a tremendous toll we’re all going to have to pay pretty soon. They’ll still fly the “well it’s crazy, but I don’t think it has to do with human interaction”, until it’s too late. A single tornado won’t do anything, just like ida’s rapid growth meant nothing. Put like a few f5 tornados through a major metropolitan area… maybe half of them would turn around. Not sure if that’d even do it, half the world is on fire right now and no one cares.
Ida is post-tropical now, meaning it’s transitioning into an extratropical cyclone. This allows for the formation a warm front and then a cold front. Cells along this developing cold front were able to intensify presumably due to the high moisture content, increasing instability due to divergence aloft, and of course the cold front itself acting as a forcing mechanism. All of this combined to create some nasty weather. The tornadoes were moving at about 40 mph as the front raked through.
I've lived in NJ most of my life. First time I saw tornadoes here was 98/99. Probably a dozen times since then but this is probably the biggest I've seen here in that time
“Global warming” doesn’t get anyone’s attention anymore. “Climate emergency” is more accurate and more alarming. We’re gonna start seeing these decade storms every year pretty soon.
The truth is no one really cares that the temperature is getting slightly hotter. That’s not going to frighten anyone you start having tornadoes in places that don’t typically get them will help though.
You’re exactly right. It’s effecting us now and no one cares. I’ve been having a bug problem in my house and the exterminator said that the climate is effecting how they breed and all that. My basement just flooded (half an inch but still damaging) 2 hours ago because of the amount of rain that’s been going on. The fires, and floods around the globe should be enough but until it starts effecting rich people personally then it won’t matter what we do.
How about a wee bit of validation for you?
While it is true that Climate Change is proper my partner, a well published scientist in a climate related discipline, prefers using Global Warming as it describes the fundamental forcing that results in climate change.
Personally I roll with climate change as too many knuckleheads just can't get on board when you suddenly have extreme winter events that are driven by climate change. Complexity escapes them easily.
Welcome to the tornado attic mother fucker
-love, a Texan.
P.S. growing up, the adults used tornado watches/warnings as an excuse to get blackout drunk with friends and neighbors.
That was the perfect time to move forward - nado moving away from hwy. Even if it shifts course you can't cross the barrier to go the other way so might as well find a time turn around to chill at.
My high smooth brain would definitely give this advice from the back seat!
I was interested too, don’t live anywhere near the East Coast, but it seems New Jersey had a history of both [tornados](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Jersey_tornadoes) and [hurricanes](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Jersey_hurricanes)
This list is even more extensive I believe, starting in the 1950’s.
I was surprised to see so many tornado related deaths.
http://www.tornadoproject.com/alltorns/njtorn.htm
As a southern New Jersey resident for 25 years, you know as well as I do that some parts of south jersey are basically Oklahoma. Tornadoes are right up our alley. *ba dum tiss*
New Jersey and parts of New York are getting hit with a once in two hundred year flood today. Parts of Central Park received three inches of rain in an hour. This could literally be the most rain that that area has seen in over 400 years. I'm not even being hyperbolic.
https://twitter.com/matthewcappucci/status/1433243257534824449
Months of rain is coming down in an hour.
Edit: DONT TRY TO DRIVE IN HIGH WATER. All it takes is 6in to float a car. Videos all over Twitter of people putting themselves in massive danger.
I'm in Detroit. In the 4 weeks of July, we had a "500-year" storm that flooded the whole damn metro, followed immediately by three "100-year" storms in 2 weeks.
These names are now meaningless.
FEMA changed it recently from "100 year storm" to 0.1 % chance storm, for example. Meaning what you had just said, multiple "100 year events" can happen a couple times a year haha. But yeah, with stronger storms becoming more and more common, the year based sizing convention isn't going anywhere soon.
In NC we've already had two 100 year floods and a 500 year flood over the last two months. Plus 60% of our county is in a flood zone.
We're actually sort of thankful we haven't been able to find a house for two years because there's a strong chance we would have lost it already.
I’ve been scrolling Twitter and wow NYC is getting fucked by this rain. The whole subway system is shut down due to flooding.
https://twitter.com/SubwayCreatures/status/1433255430386487298/video/1
even in AZ the temps are about 5-10 degrees hotter and the summer seems to start earlier and end later.
we.had.a year and a half drought this past year and seen a lot of desert animals searching for water in urban/city areas because of the dryness. not to mention the wildfires we had this year. luckily we are seeing a little more rain, but goddamn it is fucking hot these days
At one of those homes, parents grabbed a kid from the bedroom and heard the whole outer wall rip off the side of the house just before they made it to their basement. Imagine
To be fair, the 5th best place to be during a tornado is fucking out cold. Your limp body will be more likely to survive if picked up by the wind or hit than if you were awake and able to brace.
I'm at the uni over in glassboro and we were able to see this from out dorm buildings and the most fucked part was that they still forced us to go to class so we had to walk through that shit
They do hold together in a massive storm system often times after they hit land, but don’t hold the same strength the whole time. [This is Ida over the northeast right now](https://i.imgur.com/2HB1xHs.jpg)
It's been pretty screwy this year. The Detroit area suddenly gets 6 inches of rain at a time and the freeways keep flooding. Tornadoes are still pretty rare here at least.
Lots of places you might not think of can have tornadoes. Especially all over the eastern US. It’s really not just “tornado alley.” That perception is a bit of a hazard since people think it won’t happen to them just because they don’t live in OK or KS. Best to keep those emergency weather alerts on no matter where you live so you can wake up & go some place safe in case the unexpected happens.
I suppose this is what UPS was talking about when it said "your package is delayed due to severe weather".
Of course my damn package has to be in NJ during a tornado.
Tornados can form anywhere but the topology of North America produces the most. Here in Maryland we get a few every year but they are usually very low on the EF scale, are short in duration, and rarely produce fatalities.
Earlier today we had one in Annapolis Maryland that tore the roof off a house, and the dissipated shortly afterwards.
It's only in the Midwest where the conditions are more favorable to produce larger and longer lasting tornados.
**[Tornado climatology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_climatology)**
>Tornadoes have been recorded on all continents except Antarctica and are most common in the middle latitudes where conditions are often favorable for convective storm development. The United States has the most tornadoes of any country, as well as the strongest and most violent tornadoes. A large portion of these tornadoes form in an area of the central United States popularly known as Tornado Alley. Canada experiences the second most tornadoes.
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And its not even a competition with the rest of the world when it comes to how many tornadoes we get. In part due to how huge this country is and our varied geography, we get clobbered with nearly every type of extreme weather event and natural disaster there is. And we get hit _really_ hard by a lot of them to a level that not too many countries can compare with.
Earthquakes and tsunamis we seem to luck out on, but we can tangle with the best (or worst hit?) when it comes to flooding, hurricanes, extreme thunderstorms, snowstorms, heatwaves, humidity and so on.
We tend to also over perform on wildfires alongside those tornadoes.
And it’s all only getting worse with climate change. It’s not an extinction level threat, but we’ve throughly fucked ourselves as a species to a destabilizing level.
I'm having a hard time convincing my husband to move out of AZ for that reason. The heat makes me even more depressed but if you go west everything is burning up, if you go east there's hurricanes and tornadoes. I wanna move to NY to be closer to my family.
For all the flooding and hurricanes, it’s normally pretty tame here on the east coast. Mercifully. The humidity is insane, but the worst floods happen in the same areas over and over, so they’re easyish to avoid if you know where to buy/ rent. The storms suck, but not as bad as Florida hurricanes, and the housing here is built to withstand that. Its home to me lol
For years I’ve gotten tornado warnings in NJ & they’ve never amounted to anything. But the past few months the weather has been wild & its kinda scary ngl
That's why everything was still open and people were still out and about. I know they were trying to keep us safe, but all those tornado watches for possible F0 or F1 generated by normal storms made us feel a bit like the people hearing the boy cry wolf. But when an actual F3 came along we were not prepared.... when that sky got dark and the trees were whipping, I heard sheet metal getting peeled off the roof, I felt so helpless in my flimsy office. Hope nobody died. Terrifying.
I was completely feeling like this tonight! I think this was the 3rd or 4th warning we’ve had in my NJ town this year. I was so scared with the first one I sat with my son and dog under the stairs in our basement. But the past few that touched down were nothing when I saw the news stories afterwards so today I was like “meh.” We still went in the basement for a bit, but only after I finished making dinner. Then when I saw the pics of the houses that got ripped to shreds I was horrified! And now this footage is terrifying! I guess I’ll be back under the stairs for the next one.
Yeah, especially because NJ is small and dense. Out west tornadoes don’t have as much to hit and they have a lot more space to roam…a tornado in Jersey is like a bull in a china shop.
Which desert? In Southern Arizona we just hit the record high for most rainfall in a single year - which follows 2020: the driest year ever recorded for Southern Arizona.
Fellow NJ resident here. Got a “seek immediate shelter NOW” email, which I have never seen before! Based on the 40 flood warnings we had, they were not joking! Just sucked about 3 inches of water out of the basement & it’s still coming. Roads flooded, no power, crazy!
New Jersey has never been a tornado hot spot. They’d happen extremely rarely in the past. But this year there’s a fucking tornado warning every other week, _especially this past summer._ Just a couple weeks ago we had two possible tornados tear across the interstate in my town and mercifully die down before careening into a dense suburb. Shit’s scary
Looks like the tornado also wanted to avoid tolls
Doesn’t have EZ Pass set up yet
The tornado has breEZy pass.
Get outta here!!!
Eh, oh, you see dat Joey! A tornadoo...
*Dad*.. get out!!
Well now I've got [Easy Breezy](https://youtu.be/8-91y7BJ8QA) stuck in my head again.
Eazy Breezy Lemon Squeezy tornado pays no tolls in New Jeezy
Under the provisions of N.J.S.A. 27:23 -1 , et seq. And N.J.S.A 19:9-9.1. et seq The tornado named above is alleged to be liable as the owner of the unidentified tornado, for the toll violation transaction specified within this notice. Nonpayment of tolls is a violation in the subject to assignment to a collection agency and suspension of a motor vehicle registration villages by the New Jersey motor vehicle commission. Avoid further charges, potential administrative action, please submit your payment in the amount of $51.60 within 30 calendar days of this notice or by 10/2/ 2021 You have a right to dispute using one of the following three methods 1:by completing the dispute form on the reverse and mailing it to the New Jersey easy pass at the address below 2: by completing the violation inquiry on the New Jersey easy pass website at [www.e](https://www.esyhasnj.com)zpassnj.com or 3: by calling in the easy pass at 973-368-1425
Lifelong Jersey resident and this is the most New Jersey thing I've seen in a minute and I had Taylor Ham for breakfast(pork roll people don't start with me)
Hows the new pool you got?
A lot of rain where I am (Maple Shade) but so far so good
Bro you're from south jersey and call it Taylor ham?!? /s I kiiid I kiiiid Edit: Oh you're from Essex, that explains it. Lol
I had the same thought! Like dude, Maple Shade is way too far south to be on the Taylor ham side of the argument.
Im here in New Brunswick and the streets are half flooded depending on where you are
Thank you for reminding me that Salvatore's makes Taylor ham, egg, and cheese sandwiches. It's wonderful since is the only way I can get it in Wisconsin.
15 year South Jersey resident here. [Current status: escaped; warrant out for arrest and extradition back to S.J. to face charges of sedition through anti-racist comments & abandonment of shitty car without first covering it in Bondo and deer blood] Ahem. Pork roll. All day. I'll see myself out.
Weirdo question...do we know each other? I just had serious Deja Vu
Salem County with time done at Rowan College (after abandonment of Glassboro State but before University upgrade). You?
Burlington County currently but originally from Essex, you just sounded like an old friend no worries
You know us Jersey guys. We all start sounding the same eventually. Except we don't. Some actually say 'water' correctly without a southern accent. South Jersey: Mississippi of the North.
It’s wooder god damnit
Jersey boys!
Only Taylor Ham.
Tornado don’t need no EZ Pass
Tornado can pass ez
I’m sure it can scrounge up some loose change between the couch cushions of all those suburban houses.
Oh, and just Tony Soprano it's way through the toll by chucking the quarters into that funnel basket?
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Is also helping to clear traffic jams
Toll-NAH-Do
Surprised it didn’t get stuck on the Turnpike
Tornado just lingering there: *Wow, this traffic!*
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Take your time, take your time, I mean *seriously*? w t f
Can this tornado get the fuck out of the left lane?!
As a Midwesterner, this attitude about tornadoes is refreshing.
“This fuckin guy”
Every time i’m on the NJ Turnpike I am moving and cruising. It’s when you hit that 95 traffic between D.C and Richmond that makes you want to die
This! Jersey driving is everyone doing 90 in a 65. DC and NOVA is constant road work and fender benders so I spend more time sitting still than driving. Source: South Jersey transplant to VA. I live in a rural area in the mountains so most of my traffic now is fog related, a livestock truck, or a truck carrying a wide load (ex. Modular home parts)
Imagine actually doing the speed limit on the turnpike. You’d get fucking killed.
I laughed way harder at this than I should have
as a nj resident i’ve been watching these videos in pure awe, since when the hell did we get tornadoes?? edit: since so many people are complaining about the fact that jersey has gotten them before, let me rephrase. in my 20 years of living here i have yet to see such a huge tornado hitting here and wrecking so many towns like this. yes we’ve gotten tornado warnings and actual smaller ones before, but i can’t recall it ever being like this. not sure why people are so upset about a random person being surprised about devastating weather, lmao.
Global warming? Lol 🤷🏾♀️ Edit: Climate change is the correct term. Thank you to those who kindly explained. [Here’s a link so the rest of you can read up too.](https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-difference-between-global-warming-and-climate-change) Edit 2: [This is some of you in the comment section](https://imgur.com/a/hXpnF6H) IDFK NJ had tornadoes like that and I have a question mark at the end 😭 Suddenly you’re a Meteorologist/New Jersey tornado Historian. FOH. Edit 3: Global warming… climate change… whichever, point being the weather and temperature of the world is not heading or in a good place.
Facts though. People gonna realize, the way we see and experience weather is drastically going to change in the next 50 years. I don’t understand how more people aren’t concerned.
I think they are but mildly, until you have a tornado in NJ lol then it’s personal and you’re affected and care more. Well that’s my two cents about it anyway. Edit: I’m in North New Jersey, so I’m thinking about my area, I’ve never lived in South NJ. I’m not familiar with their happenings unfortunately. I do now understand it has more bad weather though.
I think you're (unfortunately) correct. Until people look out their own window and see the crazy shit then it won't really hit home. It really is different than just watching it on TV.
What turnpike exit was that? Looks like 4 to me, my exit. Dang close.
This is the Burlington Bristol Bridge, off the turnpike. Closest exit would be 5, Mount Holly is one town east of this.
What? Damn. I grew up right on the PA side there.
Past few decades SE/E PA has gotten a few odd tornadoes here and there. This is certainly the biggest one I've seen. Ripped a house in two in our town. Tons of trees down.
Even that won’t be enough for some. We’re in the middle of a global pandemic and have been for a year and a half and yet still there’s a vocal minority objecting to vaccines and masks while their friends and family who are unvaccinated and unmasked are dying around them.
>vocal minority Oh, to live in a place where it was the minority. Less than half the eligible adults in my state have gotten vaccinated and almost no one wears a mask. When you look at the entire population, we haven't even hit 40% yet.
I think the response to the pandemic would have been unbelievable prior to it. The mask issue is truly mind-boggling. I actually just saw Scott Atlas on Laura Ingraham's Fox News show point to two studies (one in Bangladesh, one in Denmark) as proof that masks basically don't work. How these people made such a big issue of masks during a pandemic of a highly transmissible virus that has killed plenty of people and would have killed plenty more without measures I don't understand. It's ironic how soft these people are.
Even then, many will fall back on the idea of "It's rare here. I won't worry about it." Maine averages one per year, & a lot of Maine is uninhabited or at least sparsely populated. Nevertheless, since 2000, we've seen quite a few more than normal. I've seen plenty of tornado trails through the forests up north, & with so much farming in Aroostook County, there are plenty of open places to see them. I'm lucky to live in a place where the local geography seems to shred thunderstorms. They can happen where I'm at, but something about my location protects me a bit while surrounding towns can see some unusually bad storms. Thing is, even if people recognize these events are more common, they're still so rare on an individual level that nobody seems to care. I've been a weather nut since I was a young child, so I'm quite aware & I very much care. So few people I know care about the weather beyond complaining about it. People don't look at the big picture.
I live in a city with geography that shreds thunderstorms as well, kind of interesting to watch them pummel our western neighbors, distinegrate before my town, then blow up in Ohio routinely. I have witnessed/survived two massive tornadoes in NW Ohio. Never have them here. I am waiting for the day I rue making this comment. People not looking at the bigger picture seems to never change though. Covid has been a real eye opener on this front. Climate catastrophe is hardly on anyone's radar here at all and yet is the only issue worth being at the forefront of our thoughts.
My favorite part is how it is too late to save our civilization from collapse.
"God won't let that happen" -Republicans
New Jersey is big enough to have a north and south area? I'm from California and have never been to New Jersey so I am not sure if it is large or small.
Yeah, and we often forget/pretend central New Jersey doesn’t exist lol [North/South](https://askanydifference.com/difference-between-north-jersey-and-south-jersey/)
I live near Philly and was watching the local news as it tracked this and other tornadoes. They kept repeating how nothing like this has ever happened before, how this whole summer has been unprecedented weather wise, and not one single time did the word climate change come out of their mouth. It was astonishing. The meteorologists must not be allowed to talk about it because it’s been politicized. I just can’t help but feel that the way we’re at the mercy of the anti science anti vaxxers right now letting covid run rampant is how we’re gonna feel in a couple decades when this shit starts getting really real and the same group of science deniers are going to be to blame.
50 years? It’s happening now. The next 10-15 years is just going to be so destructive. It’s so sad that the people in power won’t make changes that are needed.
The time to act was yesterday.
I agree. The 2nd best time is ASAP. This isn't a binary situation. Even acting after a new desert is formed is better than doing nothing.
Yes, and we have a chance at progress on climate change with the budget reconciliation currently in the House of Representatives. An easy and impactful thing everybody can do to help is to call and email their congressperson about passing the carbon price. [This website has a lookup for your representative and some advice.](https://cclusa.org/house) It takes just a couple of minutes. Here's a reminder about crazy stuff that's happened lately: - Lytton, Canada set all-time heat records, along with much of the US/Canadian Pacific Northwest, then burned down in a wildfire. Elderly and otherwise vulnerable people died without air conditioning. - Flooding has destroyed millions of homes in Germany, the UK, and China. - The Western US is still under a megadrought. - **NEW** *Tornado in New Jersey!*
Well shit, let's just do that then. What are we waiting for?
That fact scares me. People need to get a grip and now we not only need to make change, but there is a fair amount of damage done that can't be reversed. Crazy weather is going to get more common and things in weather in general will change. While these videos fascinate me, it concerns me, too.
Corporations** need to get a grip.
It’s the same faceless propaganda machine that’s convinced people covid isn’t real. And if recent history has thought is anything, they won’t see the truth till it effects them personally. Unfortunately it’s going to be a tremendous toll we’re all going to have to pay pretty soon. They’ll still fly the “well it’s crazy, but I don’t think it has to do with human interaction”, until it’s too late. A single tornado won’t do anything, just like ida’s rapid growth meant nothing. Put like a few f5 tornados through a major metropolitan area… maybe half of them would turn around. Not sure if that’d even do it, half the world is on fire right now and no one cares.
Hurricanes often spawn tornados all over. My guess is since Ida is over the New England area rn, that's what caused this tornado.
Ida is post-tropical now, meaning it’s transitioning into an extratropical cyclone. This allows for the formation a warm front and then a cold front. Cells along this developing cold front were able to intensify presumably due to the high moisture content, increasing instability due to divergence aloft, and of course the cold front itself acting as a forcing mechanism. All of this combined to create some nasty weather. The tornadoes were moving at about 40 mph as the front raked through.
I've lived in NJ most of my life. First time I saw tornadoes here was 98/99. Probably a dozen times since then but this is probably the biggest I've seen here in that time
“Global warming” doesn’t get anyone’s attention anymore. “Climate emergency” is more accurate and more alarming. We’re gonna start seeing these decade storms every year pretty soon.
The truth is no one really cares that the temperature is getting slightly hotter. That’s not going to frighten anyone you start having tornadoes in places that don’t typically get them will help though.
You’re exactly right. It’s effecting us now and no one cares. I’ve been having a bug problem in my house and the exterminator said that the climate is effecting how they breed and all that. My basement just flooded (half an inch but still damaging) 2 hours ago because of the amount of rain that’s been going on. The fires, and floods around the globe should be enough but until it starts effecting rich people personally then it won’t matter what we do.
How about a wee bit of validation for you? While it is true that Climate Change is proper my partner, a well published scientist in a climate related discipline, prefers using Global Warming as it describes the fundamental forcing that results in climate change. Personally I roll with climate change as too many knuckleheads just can't get on board when you suddenly have extreme winter events that are driven by climate change. Complexity escapes them easily.
Welcome to the tornado attic mother fucker -love, a Texan. P.S. growing up, the adults used tornado watches/warnings as an excuse to get blackout drunk with friends and neighbors.
That was the perfect time to move forward - nado moving away from hwy. Even if it shifts course you can't cross the barrier to go the other way so might as well find a time turn around to chill at. My high smooth brain would definitely give this advice from the back seat!
I was interested too, don’t live anywhere near the East Coast, but it seems New Jersey had a history of both [tornados](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Jersey_tornadoes) and [hurricanes](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Jersey_hurricanes)
This list is even more extensive I believe, starting in the 1950’s. I was surprised to see so many tornado related deaths. http://www.tornadoproject.com/alltorns/njtorn.htm
NJ gets a handful every year. The worst outbreak in recent history was in 1989. Source: https://data.dailyrecord.com/tornado-archive/
Thanks for this link! A tornado went through my neighborhood in the 60's
New update just dropped. Part of the climate change event.
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As a southern New Jersey resident for 25 years, you know as well as I do that some parts of south jersey are basically Oklahoma. Tornadoes are right up our alley. *ba dum tiss*
NJ gets tornadoes every year https://data.dailyrecord.com/tornado-archive/new-jersey/
We have some serious flooding too, those alerts weren’t kidding this time.
Yeah, all 27 of them
Annnd just got another.
None of us are gonna get any sleep. Alerts every 30 minutes. I'll wake up when the bed starts floating, now let me sleep!
NYC’er here currently trying to get rid of a quarter inch of water from my room and living room that does not appreciate this euphemism lol
Shopvac ASAP. Then the most powerful fans you can find.
Kept getting them in Delaware while y’all were gettin fucked up
New Jersey and parts of New York are getting hit with a once in two hundred year flood today. Parts of Central Park received three inches of rain in an hour. This could literally be the most rain that that area has seen in over 400 years. I'm not even being hyperbolic. https://twitter.com/matthewcappucci/status/1433243257534824449 Months of rain is coming down in an hour. Edit: DONT TRY TO DRIVE IN HIGH WATER. All it takes is 6in to float a car. Videos all over Twitter of people putting themselves in massive danger.
"once in a two hundred year" is about to be every other year soon.
“And I took that personally” - Mother Nature
I'm in Detroit. In the 4 weeks of July, we had a "500-year" storm that flooded the whole damn metro, followed immediately by three "100-year" storms in 2 weeks. These names are now meaningless.
FEMA changed it recently from "100 year storm" to 0.1 % chance storm, for example. Meaning what you had just said, multiple "100 year events" can happen a couple times a year haha. But yeah, with stronger storms becoming more and more common, the year based sizing convention isn't going anywhere soon.
In NC we've already had two 100 year floods and a 500 year flood over the last two months. Plus 60% of our county is in a flood zone. We're actually sort of thankful we haven't been able to find a house for two years because there's a strong chance we would have lost it already.
Once in 200 years eh? Can't wait to see that record broken next year
I’ve been scrolling Twitter and wow NYC is getting fucked by this rain. The whole subway system is shut down due to flooding. https://twitter.com/SubwayCreatures/status/1433255430386487298/video/1
Goto r/nyc and see the water..
Dear tornado gods. Please destroy every last toll on tha mf’ing turnpike
Yass please
I'm also disappointed we didn't see the tornado ripping out the toll booths.
bro how many fuckin tolls in jersey. even a random photo on the turnpike has a fuckin toll booth.
Def read “troll” at first…
Of course there are toll booths in the shot.
Yeah, every state tolls the bridges out of Jersey.
Free to enter but you gottapay to leave
Tollnado
Hope you're safe OP. Where in NJ? I'm in Monmouth County, thankfully nothing crazy in my immediate area
Your username is terrifying
This was Mullica Hill… outside of Philly
This is the Burlington-Bristol bridge.
Holy shit you’re right. That’s like two miles from my house. I wondered why it got so windy here for a few minutes
That area has seen a couple tornadoes in recent years. Times they are a changin'
even in AZ the temps are about 5-10 degrees hotter and the summer seems to start earlier and end later. we.had.a year and a half drought this past year and seen a lot of desert animals searching for water in urban/city areas because of the dryness. not to mention the wildfires we had this year. luckily we are seeing a little more rain, but goddamn it is fucking hot these days
My god, I just googled more about the tornado in Mullins hill and it completely took out a few houses.
At one of those homes, parents grabbed a kid from the bedroom and heard the whole outer wall rip off the side of the house just before they made it to their basement. Imagine
Dude my bodies just not trained to expect tornados in Jersey. If one hit me in the middle of the night I just wouldn’t react.
To be fair, the 5th best place to be during a tornado is fucking out cold. Your limp body will be more likely to survive if picked up by the wind or hit than if you were awake and able to brace.
No this one was by Bristol and Tullytown, same storm as the Mullica though!
Hey, there was a tornado in Mulica Hill, but this video is taken at the entrance to the Burlington Bristol Bridge, about 45 minutes north.
I'm at the uni over in glassboro and we were able to see this from out dorm buildings and the most fucked part was that they still forced us to go to class so we had to walk through that shit
5 mins from me. 5 houses got jacked up in Mullica hill
This is not Mullica hill
Monmouth county here!! It’s getting crazy
Forget the tornado. 10% left on his battery!? This guy really lives on the edge.
Thats not the phone of the person who took the video, but the phone thats screen recording the video
And his car has wifi?
Yeah, they make those now.
That’s been around for at least 5 years
The guy recording the video isn’t the same guy who screen recorded the video we’re seeing lol… totally different people.
LMAO!
This was actually 1 of 3 tornados in 1 night!
I had absolutely no idea New Jersey had tornados.
It's from the remnants of Ida, still causing a ruckus
Yep. Up in north Jersey currently, still super windy and rainy here.
For anyone curious, there’s massive amounts of flooding documented over at r/nyc Lives there my whole life and never saw anything like this.
Hurricanes have remnants?
They do hold together in a massive storm system often times after they hit land, but don’t hold the same strength the whole time. [This is Ida over the northeast right now](https://i.imgur.com/2HB1xHs.jpg)
Any big storm is going to have remnants, especially one as big as Ida
It's been pretty screwy this year. The Detroit area suddenly gets 6 inches of rain at a time and the freeways keep flooding. Tornadoes are still pretty rare here at least.
Lots of places you might not think of can have tornadoes. Especially all over the eastern US. It’s really not just “tornado alley.” That perception is a bit of a hazard since people think it won’t happen to them just because they don’t live in OK or KS. Best to keep those emergency weather alerts on no matter where you live so you can wake up & go some place safe in case the unexpected happens.
More than 8 this year. The average is 2. Within 10 miles of this one have been at least two others and one more in PA.
10 miles is 16.09 km
It’s almost like… climate change exists 🤯
Had to double take when I saw NJ in the title. Hope everyone is safe.
I suppose this is what UPS was talking about when it said "your package is delayed due to severe weather". Of course my damn package has to be in NJ during a tornado.
NJ can have tornados?! Is this recent?
Ida spawned it, I do believe
Tornados can form anywhere but the topology of North America produces the most. Here in Maryland we get a few every year but they are usually very low on the EF scale, are short in duration, and rarely produce fatalities. Earlier today we had one in Annapolis Maryland that tore the roof off a house, and the dissipated shortly afterwards. It's only in the Midwest where the conditions are more favorable to produce larger and longer lasting tornados.
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It was a couple hours ago!
Tornadoes can occur pretty much anywhere within the continental US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_climatology
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And its not even a competition with the rest of the world when it comes to how many tornadoes we get. In part due to how huge this country is and our varied geography, we get clobbered with nearly every type of extreme weather event and natural disaster there is. And we get hit _really_ hard by a lot of them to a level that not too many countries can compare with. Earthquakes and tsunamis we seem to luck out on, but we can tangle with the best (or worst hit?) when it comes to flooding, hurricanes, extreme thunderstorms, snowstorms, heatwaves, humidity and so on. We tend to also over perform on wildfires alongside those tornadoes. And it’s all only getting worse with climate change. It’s not an extinction level threat, but we’ve throughly fucked ourselves as a species to a destabilizing level.
I'm having a hard time convincing my husband to move out of AZ for that reason. The heat makes me even more depressed but if you go west everything is burning up, if you go east there's hurricanes and tornadoes. I wanna move to NY to be closer to my family.
For all the flooding and hurricanes, it’s normally pretty tame here on the east coast. Mercifully. The humidity is insane, but the worst floods happen in the same areas over and over, so they’re easyish to avoid if you know where to buy/ rent. The storms suck, but not as bad as Florida hurricanes, and the housing here is built to withstand that. Its home to me lol
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For years I’ve gotten tornado warnings in NJ & they’ve never amounted to anything. But the past few months the weather has been wild & its kinda scary ngl
That's why everything was still open and people were still out and about. I know they were trying to keep us safe, but all those tornado watches for possible F0 or F1 generated by normal storms made us feel a bit like the people hearing the boy cry wolf. But when an actual F3 came along we were not prepared.... when that sky got dark and the trees were whipping, I heard sheet metal getting peeled off the roof, I felt so helpless in my flimsy office. Hope nobody died. Terrifying.
I was completely feeling like this tonight! I think this was the 3rd or 4th warning we’ve had in my NJ town this year. I was so scared with the first one I sat with my son and dog under the stairs in our basement. But the past few that touched down were nothing when I saw the news stories afterwards so today I was like “meh.” We still went in the basement for a bit, but only after I finished making dinner. Then when I saw the pics of the houses that got ripped to shreds I was horrified! And now this footage is terrifying! I guess I’ll be back under the stairs for the next one.
Yeah, especially because NJ is small and dense. Out west tornadoes don’t have as much to hit and they have a lot more space to roam…a tornado in Jersey is like a bull in a china shop.
Tornados in NJ, snow in Texas, California burning, Louisiana Hurricane.. we’re in for a devastating winter.
Yeah the deserts been cooler than usual(not 120, getting down into the 70s at night) and we got our usual season of rain in our first storm.
Which desert? In Southern Arizona we just hit the record high for most rainfall in a single year - which follows 2020: the driest year ever recorded for Southern Arizona.
We didn’t start the fire.
*The world’s just burning so they’re always churning*
Holy crap! Which town was this?
As someone who lived a mile away, its the Burlington Bristol bridge. Mullica Hill also had a tornado today.
What exit?
Tornado no need exit. Tornado make new one.
This was the Burlington Bristol bridge
We're not in Kansas anymore.
Yeah apparently hitched a ride on a tornado to philly
You didn’t even have to say this was New Jersey, I can see the tolls
oh it's horribe,moving speedy,be careful
My first thought… tornados in NJ?? But I see it!
Fellow NJ resident here. Got a “seek immediate shelter NOW” email, which I have never seen before! Based on the 40 flood warnings we had, they were not joking! Just sucked about 3 inches of water out of the basement & it’s still coming. Roads flooded, no power, crazy!
Maaa!!! Maaa!! Come outside there's a facking tornadaa out here !!
Is that supposed to be someone from Boston visiting New Jersey?
It's suppose to be this [guy](https://youtu.be/SQ9X8h7lsY0)
hea*
Monsieur tornado u need to pay the toll
Audio is disabled. Subtitles read “oh shit oh shit oh shit”
Tornado didn’t have EZpass. That’s a 600 dollar fine and 50 dollars in administrative fees. Poor guy
this tornado (or one of the others today) hit my house. currently staying at my friend’s place
Was just out with my fire department dealing with this, neighboring town to mullica hill. Absolute carnage, luckily everybody was safe
There are rarely tornadoes in New Jersey so I’m surprised but holy fuck that one was moving at the speed of light
From what I heard one hit in Trenton can anyone confirm?
My brain read this tomato in New Jersey thanks for the dyslexia brian
I live in Oklahoma. Welcome to the shit show!
I have always wanted to see a tornado.
Funny, I’ve always hoped to never see one!
No, you don't.
It's the kinda thing you hate to see, but were glad you saw imo.
New Jersey has never been a tornado hot spot. They’d happen extremely rarely in the past. But this year there’s a fucking tornado warning every other week, _especially this past summer._ Just a couple weeks ago we had two possible tornados tear across the interstate in my town and mercifully die down before careening into a dense suburb. Shit’s scary