WABC: New Jersey remains under a state of emergency Tuesday after flash flooding devastated many communities Monday night, especially in Union and Somerset counties.
Gov. Phil Murphy toured some of the damage Tuesday morning in Berkeley Heights.
“Last night, we got crushed,” he said.
Murphy spoke about two deaths in the city of Plainfield and about a home explosion in the borough of North Plainfield.
“We’re seeing more of this, more frequent and more intensity,” he said. “Six inches of rain in under two and a half hours, in two waves — one wave, knocked a lot of these communities a little bit off kilter; the second one just came in for the kill. So we’re assessing around all these communities and counties.”
The governor said he was in touch with the White House, and he warned more unsettled weather may be on the way.
“We’re in one of these patterns right now, hot and humid, late afternoon-early evening thunderstorms,” he said. “It doesn’t feel, as I stand here now, as though tonight, tomorrow, Thursday will be at the same level of intensity that we saw last night, but you never say never.”
Berkeley Heights Mayor Angie Devanney joined Murphy for the briefing and said that she experienced some flooding in her garage.
“I’ve seen water gushing out of the roadways, I’ve never experienced that, almost like a geyser, large boulders that have rolled down Mountain Avenue,” she said.
