Sandy Costs Estimated at $700K-Plus in Ridgewood
Vast majority expected to be paid for by FEMA, Village Manager Ken Gabbert reports.
The hurricane that ripped through Ridgewood last week was far more devastating than last years' mega-storms, but likely won't cost the village much cash. "This was by far the largest-scale event that we've had to respond to on the public safety side in recent memory," Ridgewood OEM Coordinator Jeremy Kleiman told the council. There were approximately 700 distinct incidents reported in Ridgewood through Hurricane Sandy, according to Kleiman. That rough figure tops both of last year's big weather events – 'Snowtober' and Hurricane Irene – by about 150 and 100 incidents, respectively. According to Kleiman, within the first 72 hours of Sandy, 115 roads were closed, 285 trees had fallen, 240 wires were reported as down, 5 transformers had blown…
Rebecca
10:10 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012
Also, I figure this may be a good forum to ask this question: What is the protocol with removing fallen trees that have been cut up and moved out of the road and onto a person's property? Does the property owner now pay to have removed? Or do we wait for the village to clear? In our case it was an across the street neighbor's tree, not a village tree, that fell and was cleared into our yard. … more ›