UPDATE: Summit Schools Close Due to Storm
Warming station has moved to Summit Middle School. Roads remain closed, Halloween trick-or-treating postponed until Nov. 4th, say Summit Police. Monday trains suspended.
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Update 12:51 p.m. Monday
More than 5,570 Summit residents remain without power according to a JCP&L outtage map.
In Union County, there are about 19,000 Jersey Central Power & Light customers out of service.
JCP&L spokesman Ron Morano said he expects power to be 95 percent restored by Thursday in most places and by Friday for the remainder of the outages. Town-by-town estimated times of return would not be available until later today or Tuesday, he said.
Morano said tree damage is everywhere and the accumulation of the heavy wet snow on top of trees that still had leaves led to the downed trees and nearby power lines. The unseasonably early snowstorm has left thousands of northern New Jersey residents without power and Morano said that is the big difference between the recent snow and Hurricane Irene. Irene affected outages for customers across the state, while the snowstorm was mostly concentrated in northern New Jersey.
Morano said some customers might have seen power restore and then go out again and continue in that pattern. "When we are restoring customers, it becomes necessary to take some customers out for safety reasons as we make repairs," he said. "Also, you have new outages happening as we are working;
trees are still falling days after the storm."
Morano doesn't expect the outage number to rise anymore as much of the snow has melted. He said crews continue to work around the clock to restore power.
Update 3:38 p.m. Sunday Residents without power may go to Summit Middle School on 272 Morris Ave, which is operating as a warming center and charging station for your electronic and cellular phone equipment. Summit High School was originally mentioned as the warming station, but Police issued an update at 3:20 p.m.
New Jersey Transit trains along the Morris and Essex lines are to remain suspended through Monday, according to NJ Transit.
Resident Andy Winchell reports that Mountain Avenue "remains closed because of downed trees and [power lines] lines."
Summit Police urge residents to stay indoors, and released the following list of closures and emergency updates:
- The Summit Public Schools will be closed tomorrow, October 31st.
- Halloween trick or treating is postponed to Friday, November 4th.
- The electrical utility, JCP&L reports that restoration of power may take several days.
- A warming and charging station has been opened at Summit High School – no pets please.
For further updates from JCP&L check their Twitter page and website. Stay tuned to Summit Patch for more weather related news.
Eileen Z. Wolter
2:04 pm on Sunday, October 30, 2011
Is there trash pickup tomorrow?
Emily Everson
3:07 pm on Sunday, October 30, 2011
Attempts to contact the city to find out about trash pickup were unsuccessful at this time. You can keep trying 908-273-6404 (Department of Community Services) to see if you can get through. I assuming that because no notice has been posted on the city web page that there will be pickup.
Emily Everson
3:41 pm on Sunday, October 30, 2011
Here are some of the businesses in Summit that are closed or open.
Starbucks on Beechwood Road: CLOSED.
PNC Bank on Springfield Avenue: CLOSED
Kings Supermarket is OPEN but only to 5 instead of 9
7-Eleven on Morris Ave: CLOSED
Walgreens on Springfield Avenue: CLOSED
CVS Deforsest Ave and Maple: OPEN
Summit Brick Oven Pizza on Union Place: CLOSED
Hat Tavern: the phone just kept ringing; most likely closed.
Is there a business you want Patch to check out? Tell us in these comments.
Amanda Greenblatt
4:38 pm on Sunday, October 30, 2011
The Office? Phone just rings...
Emily Everson
6:42 pm on Sunday, October 30, 2011
@Amanda Greenblatt. I tried calling The Office multiple times and got a big busy signal. Other Union Place enterprises are closed because of the storm so we can probably conclude that The Office suffered the same fate.
Marjorie Fox
4:06 pm on Sunday, October 30, 2011
The poll should ask separately about police and JCP&L. I have seen police and public works vehicles out and at work. Once again, no sign of JCP&L!
Emily Everson
6:46 pm on Sunday, October 30, 2011
@Marjorie Fox Thanks for the suggestion! The poll has been updated.
Brian
4:57 pm on Sunday, October 30, 2011
any word on whether Oratory Prep is closed tomorrow?
Emily Everson
6:38 pm on Sunday, October 30, 2011
Can't find any information on school closings at Oratory Prep. Usually, if the public schools in the town close it's a good sign that the private schools will close. Keep an ear to the wire and let us know if you hear anything!
Emily Everson
6:27 pm on Sunday, October 30, 2011
Dunkin Donuts on Union Place is closed.
Emily Everson
6:29 pm on Sunday, October 30, 2011
KENT PLACE SCHOOL CLOSED TOMORROW!!!!!
FROM KENT PLACE SCHOOL: Kent Place School
is closed tomorrow (October 31) Our servers are still down due to the
power issues and our website's down as well, our provider is working
on the issue. We've posted to FB, Twitter, our AlertNow phone
messaging system and radio and tv.
Dr Emil G Cappetta
7:45 pm on Sunday, October 30, 2011
Is power out on Summit Avenue ?
Summit Oldie
8:18 pm on Sunday, October 30, 2011
Office was jumping all day. Starbucks was open at 8am and 8pm. Ditto Dunkin D. 7-11 looked like the mall at Christmas. Where did you get your info? PS Summit Farmers
Market was also open!
Eric
10:05 pm on Sunday, October 30, 2011
Had a blast at the Summit Elms today! It was open, warm had all NFL football games on TV. The great privilege of being an Elk!
snooner
11:33 am on Monday, October 31, 2011
Any information about the disposal of all the tree branches and so forth that came down in Summit? Is the city assisting in any way (curbside pickup or something) that or are the homeowners stuck dealing with it themselves?
Emily Everson
11:22 pm on Monday, October 31, 2011
http://summit.patch.com/articles/update-summit-schools-closed-tomorrow-pd-updates-on-storm-issues
This update has some information on pickup. As more info becomes available, we will post. Thanks!
Eileen Z. Wolter
12:20 pm on Monday, October 31, 2011
City of summit website. Summit needs to overhaul its delivery of messages I think....
Eric
2:36 pm on Monday, October 31, 2011
Sorry for my typos as I posted my comments via my phone.
Bill Wilson
4:25 pm on Monday, October 31, 2011
I hope that all the "businesses are over-regulated" Republicans all over this site are the last ones to get their power restored from our wonderful monopoly, JCP&L! If ever there's a case study for government needing to rein in out-of-control, greedy corporations, this is it! While it doesnt make sense to me, they've clearly calculated that the loss of revenue from customers is less than the overtime, etc. costs to bring in more people to get our power restored more quickly.
Bill Wilson
5:59 pm on Monday, October 31, 2011
David, no, you didn't catch them on break... this is just a company engaged in free market capitalism doing the cost-benefit analysis that's part of every day business. In fact, it's patriotic and anyone saying otherwise is a radical, communist, probably kenyan-born socialist. Go Free Market Capitalism!
BJ Coghan
7:58 am on Tuesday, November 1, 2011
I saw JCP@L trucks all over Summit yesterday. There has never been a storm like this in the northeast. Why is it that some of you NEVER have a positive thing to say. This is to about YOU. It's about all of us. And, if you can follow Patch, you should be able to establish a Twitter account and follow JCP@L. They are constantly updating. Let's try to be just a little positive..
ressummit
8:04 am on Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Well said.
BJ Coghan
8:21 am on Tuesday, November 1, 2011
And by the way. According to the JCP@L at 8 this am 7940 SUMMIT homes are without power. Doesn't like like a particularly partisan number!!!!!!
Michelle Lustri
10:29 am on Tuesday, November 1, 2011
BJ thanks for the tip about Twitter - I had no idea! I don't use Twitter all that much, but will be using it now! Would be nice if JCP&L also send regular updates via Facebook...
Bill Wilson
10:47 am on Tuesday, November 1, 2011
.. or plain, "old-fashioned" email like PSEG. It's probably meaningless that PSEG sends them, but it sure makes me feel like they're doing something! (And i'm not even one of their electric customers)
Marjorie Fox
10:57 am on Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Does anyone know why the number of customers without power in Summit is now up to 7940 on the JCP&L outage map? The spokesman for jcpl said in this article that outage numbers would not go up and that was when they were at 5500.
The Connection for Women and Families
11:15 am on Tuesday, November 1, 2011
During this emergency The Connection is Open to the public for hot showers, coffee, tea and access to power outlets. The Connection's hours are: Monday - Friday 5:30 am to 10:00 pm. Sat.- Sun. 7:00 am -5:00pm.
Bill Wilson
12:03 pm on Tuesday, November 1, 2011
hey, Patch, put my posts back up... or at least explain why they were taken down!
Mike MacMillan
12:48 pm on Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Yesterday the JCP&L outage site showed 7100 Summit customers without electricity. Today, it's 8,000. Is this some kind of plot to plunge the city into total darkness?