I thought our population was fairly steady and barely growing (and now dropping because people are being deported.)

Why are they building all this crap for?

1 minute ago, Sundog said:

I thought our population was fairly steady and barely growing (and now dropping because people are being deported.)

Why are they building all this crap for?

Im not sure about there, but NJ has had low income housing quotas that towns are mandated to hit. Many towns fought it off for years and years, but it wasnt a battle they could win. My fairly small town here, from like 2022-2032 is building something like 4-5k units. You can just imagine what its going to do with schools, roads, etc. Along the rail line and highway is where they are building mostly. They go up so damn fast.

18 minutes ago, Sundog said:

I was at Crocheron Park this past Sunday morning. Everyone has two and three cars now. That wasn't the case 30 years ago.

I live by myself and I have 3 vehicles lol

4 minutes ago, Snowlover76 said:

I live by myself and I have 3 vehicles lol

Maybe some sneaky strong storms here Sunday.
Coverage won't be great, but there could be a few supercells.

1 hour ago, FrankPizz said:

Im not sure about there, but NJ has had low income housing quotas that towns are mandated to hit. Many towns fought it off for years and years, but it wasnt a battle they could win. My fairly small town here, from like 2022-2032 is building something like 4-5k units. You can just imagine what its going to do with schools, roads, etc. Along the rail line and highway is where they are building mostly. They go up so damn fast.

How is the town Plukenin NJ doing? I used to do work at A&P over there. I also did work at the Kings in White House station. I was less there I think in 2009 and I said they are probably going to end up building there because it was such a nice area, but there was a lot of spots with developers could come and I hope that isn’t the case because both those areas were decent.

1 hour ago, FrankPizz said:

Im not sure about there, but NJ has had low income housing quotas that towns are mandated to hit. Many towns fought it off for years and years, but it wasnt a battle they could win. My fairly small town here, from like 2022-2032 is building something like 4-5k units. You can just imagine what its going to do with schools, roads, etc. Along the rail line and highway is where they are building mostly. They go up so damn fast.

How in the world did such a rule go into effect to begin with? It sounds like it should be unconstitutional.

1 hour ago, Snowlover76 said:

I live by myself and I have 3 vehicles lol

There you go lol

1 hour ago, Sundog said:

I was at Crocheron Park this past Sunday morning. Everyone has two and three cars now. That wasn't the case 30 years ago.

The Mizumi restaurant used to be a diner back in the 1980s and 90s I believe in to the 2000s. I used to have work meetings over there. I used to park in the back close to that wall at the fore end of the lot, but on this one day I didn’t. I parked closer where the higher part is.

There was a massive thunderstorm when I was in there at the meeting and when I came out all the cars that were parked by that wall, we’re halfway into the water. It was completely flooded, but my car was sitting in about 10 inches of water, but it didn’t come into the car like those other cars did.

I’m telling you whatever you do if you go there in the summertime don’t park anywhere near that wall. I can’t imagine what it was like during Ida.

14 minutes ago, Sundog said:

There you go lol

Well 2 of them are rusted 20+ year old pickups and the other is an Equinox

5 minutes ago, Andrew said:

The Mizumi restaurant used to be a diner back in the 1980s and 90s I believe in to the 2000s. I used to have work meetings over there. I used to park in the back close to that wall at the fore end of the lot, but on this one day I didn’t. I parked closer where the higher part is.

There was a massive thunderstorm when I was in there at the meeting and when I came out all the cars that were parked by that wall, we’re halfway into the water. It was completely flooded, but my car was sitting in about 10 inches of water, but it didn’t come into the car like those other cars did.

I’m telling you whatever you do if you go there in the summertime don’t park anywhere near that wall. I can’t imagine what it was like during Ida.

That area is already naturally low being between the marsh and the bay.

You're talking about Seville Diner, I had been there a few times way back.

My go to place was Blue Bay diner on Francis Lewis. It's still there.

I also used to go Pamela's on Steinway in Astoria a lot. I used to order the twin cheeseburger deluxe. I can still taste those cheeseburgers man, they were so good.

2 hours ago, FrankPizz said:

Yup, that train store was amazing. Youre right. Condos and apartments galore now

expanding the heat island where trees and grass once were...

4 hours ago, Andrew said:

How is the town Plukenin NJ doing? I used to do work at A&P over there. I also did work at the Kings in White House station. I was less there I think in 2009 and I said they are probably going to end up building there because it was such a nice area, but there was a lot of spots with developers could come and I hope that isn’t the case because both those areas were decent.

Pluckemin? That isnt too far from me, like 20 minutes. I worked near there for years. I think its still ok, but condos right off of 202 I think the Kings in whitehouse is still there is its the one on route 22.

4 hours ago, uncle w said:

expanding the heat island where trees and grass once were...

100%, all to meet quotas that arent needed

4 hours ago, Sundog said:

How in the world did such a rule go into effect to begin with? It sounds like it should be unconstitutional.

Agree. I think it was from the 1970s originally. Even pee bs town cant fight it off

0Z ECMWF gives NYC a tremendous amount of rain.

3 minutes ago, tmagan said:

0Z ECMWF gives NYC a tremendous amount of rain.

0.0. Huge bust

4 hours ago, Analog1888 said:

radar doesn't look that bad this morning...I expected to wake up to heavy rain, but it's just barely rained overnight...

17 minutes ago, uncle w said:

radar doesn't look that bad this morning...I expected to wake up to heavy rain, but it's just barely rained overnight...

I don't know why you expected to wake up to heavy rain when models don't have heavy rain until this evening.

2 minutes ago, Analog1888 said:

I don't know why you expected to wake up to heavy rain when models don't have heavy rain until this evening.

the radar last night looked juicy...I'm not convinced the models will be right...either way the weekend is ruined...