Winds Bring Down Trees, Lines; 12K Without Power In Wall

WALL, NJ — A powerful storm brought down trees and power lines throughout the area, leaving nearly all of Wall Township without electrical service on Monday evening.

According to the Jersey Central Power & Light outage site, there were 12,570 homes and businesses out of 12,775 in Wall without service as of 9:30 p.m. Monday. More than 136,000 Monmouth County customers were without power at the peak of the storm outages.

Reports throughout the area said trees and power lines were brought down by strong winds that accompanied the thunderstorms.

A woman teaching a swimming lesson at Silton Swim School posted on Bob Weatherman Burger's Facebook page that the wind picked up tables and chairs at the swim school "and flung them against the fence, bending the metal fence, and sending an umbrella out into the parking lot. Chairs ended up in the pool along with whatever was on the ground - towels, shoes. water bottles, etc. I felt like I was in a movie."

There was no estimate by JCP&L of when power would be restored because of the extent of the damage. In addition to Wall, all of Sea Girt, Spring Lake, Spring Lake Heights, and much of Manasquan, Belmar and Brielle were without power.

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