r/NJPrepared

Link: https://patch.com/new-jersey/hopatcong-sparta/s/khftj/230k-without-power-as-severe-thunderstorms-wallop-nj

Got the graphic from here: https://graphical.weather.gov/sectors/newjersey.php

Graphic shows conditions at approximately 8pm tonight. You can play with the time on the page show the forecast radar at different parts of the day. Pretty cool!

>Severe thunderstorms are back in the forecast Saturday after the Garden State was slammed with winds gusting to 60 mph Friday evening, leaving more than 250,000 homes and businesses without power at one point.

>There will be a risk of severe thunderstorms Saturday, National Weather Service forecasters said, meaning isolated to scattered severe storms are possible.

>The extreme heat and humidity could make stronger storms produce damaging winds, forecasters said.

>First Energy was reporting more than 185,000 Jersey Central Power & Light customers without electricity as of 9:30 a.m. Saturday and PSE&G was reporting 28, 537 on their respective websites.

>Morris County was hardest hit, followed by Monmouth County, but many parts of the state took a beating.

Rather than list them all here, see below for the NJ 211 web page that has cooling center information broken out by county. But I'll give you a hint: many of them are public libraries.

https://nj211.org/nj-cooling-centers

If you do not have air conditioning or cannot spend the hottest part of the day somewhere that does, please consider visiting a cooling center.

I bought some plants at Home Depot a few weeks back and somehow I grabbed the wrong plant. Thought I was getting a bell pepper (I think...I was in a hurry, lol) but apparently it's something else. And yes, I did lose the plastic stake that shows what the plant is (embarrassing, I know).

But does anyone know what kind of pepper this is? It's too fat to be cayanne and too long to be a jalapeno. I do also have some tabasco peppers in the ground, but they haven't fruited yet so I can't compare.

Thanks!

Hope to see y’all next week!

Turnout has been growing every week. Keep the pressure up folks, and thank you for being involved 🤍