by pumpers
Take a look at the video halfway down in this article:
https://www.nj.com/news/2021/09/nj-tran ... elays.html
A set of multi-levels near Bound Brook trapped in the flood. I don't know exactly where - maybe a local can peg it (maybe from the highway overpass (287?) at the end of the video).Doesn't look good at all ($$$). The water is supposed to rise a few more feet today to a crest tonight.
Bound Brook, which is next to the Raritan River, has a new very high level levee around it, with cuts in it where the NJT tracks go through, but with gates that close across the tracks to prevent flooding along the tracks from the river into town. My guess is the train was trapped outside the gates when they closed, but why they didn't back up to get the heck out of there, or coordinate with the gates closing, I don't know. There seems to be catastrophic flooding between Somerville and Bridgewater and Bound Brook, not just at Bound Brook.
JS
So much for those high ground storage tracks NJT has been building after Sandy in various places... I guess it all happened too quickly.
https://www.nj.com/news/2021/09/nj-tran ... elays.html
A set of multi-levels near Bound Brook trapped in the flood. I don't know exactly where - maybe a local can peg it (maybe from the highway overpass (287?) at the end of the video).Doesn't look good at all ($$$). The water is supposed to rise a few more feet today to a crest tonight.
Bound Brook, which is next to the Raritan River, has a new very high level levee around it, with cuts in it where the NJT tracks go through, but with gates that close across the tracks to prevent flooding along the tracks from the river into town. My guess is the train was trapped outside the gates when they closed, but why they didn't back up to get the heck out of there, or coordinate with the gates closing, I don't know. There seems to be catastrophic flooding between Somerville and Bridgewater and Bound Brook, not just at Bound Brook.
JS
So much for those high ground storage tracks NJT has been building after Sandy in various places... I guess it all happened too quickly.