Violent storm in Barnegat, 1854
Ocean Emblem 19 Apr 1854
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New Egypt News, 1905
New Egypt Press 10 Mar 1905: William HOMES, of Forked River, and Miss Stella JONES, of Waretown, were married at Barnegat last Thursday. John WEBB, of Tuckerton, is in the Hanemann Hospital, Phila., receiving surgical treatment. He was operated on Wednesday last and is doing nicely. Not for sometime has the oyster situation at Tuckerton assumed such serious aspects as at the present owing to the continued freeze. The ice is from a foot to a foot and a half thick, and the skipper's reserves stock is exhausted. Some shippers who have standing orders have been compelled to cut holes in the ice and tong for the oysters. Not only is a famine threatened but many of the planters are afraid that the continuance of the ice will kill their stock.
Lighting storm, 1916
New Jersey Courier 21 Jul 1916 The electrical storm of Thursday night, July 13, played many pranks in this section, and pretty well demoralized electric light service for the time being. It kept the force of local company busy repairing damage it had done. The queerest prank was at Hooper and Dayton avenues, where it supposedly melted off a wire and ran the electric current into the ground. It is claimed that the next morning the ground around an electric light pole on that corner was so charged with electricity that a horse stepping upon it fell down, and a cat running over it was nearly killed.
Assorted county news, 1916
New Jersey Courier 14 Jul 1916 Miss Zilda Stevens of Marlton, is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Henry Wills. Mrs. Seidenburg of Pittsburg is the guest of Mrs. Hirshblond. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred R. Gandy are at Riverside house for the summer as their customer is. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Morris and three daughters of Chicago spent last week with Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Morris. Joseph Hensley of Trenton spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs. John Dorsett W.A.Crane of the New York customer house was in town yesterday. Mrs. Wm. Grant of Hooper Avenue is entertaining her father from Jersey City. William Britton, wife, and daughter, Beatrice, of Philadelphia, motored down Sunday for a week with Mr. and Mrs. John F. Bills. Mr and Mrs. A.C. King returned yesterday from several weeks at Maplewood, NH in the White Mountains. Mr. King did some fine shooting while there at the tournament. He was a member of a squad of five that broke the world's record by smashing 497 targets out of a possible
Thunderstorm in Cedar Run, 1918
New Jersey Courier 11 Jan 1918 A thunderstorm with plenty of lightning and rain on Monday last, an unusual occurrence this time of year. Dangerous walking also on Monday. Autos over the county pike went skidding along. I note that a number of public schools have been closed on account of the scarcity of coal, but do not note of any breweries being closed on account of no coal. Which is the most important, our schools or the breweries?
Weather news from Ocean County, 1879
New Jersey Courier 2 Jan 1879: The iceman have been very busy the last week, harvesting the ice crop. The houses are all filled with superior ice and the owners can now bid defiance to 'ol Sol's rays.
Storm of 1858
New Jersey Mirror 26 Aug 1858 The storm on Tuesday afternoon of last week, was very severe in different parts of the County. Near the Red Lion, a man named George Bartlett, was struck by lightning, and instantly killed. He was a carpenter and had been at work on the house of Josiah Prickitt. When the storm came up, he went in the house, and took a seat near the chimney, in the kitchen, Mr. Prickitt sitting only a few feet from him. The fluid ran down the chimney, immediately by the side of Mr. Bartlett, killing him instantly, while Mr. Prickitt was but slightly stunned. In various parts of Springfield, the wind and hail did considerable damage.--Fields of corn were completely prostrated, trees and fences blown down, and a large quantity of window-glass broken. In the house of James B. Warner, 71 panes of glass were broken, and in the house of George Gandy, 49 panes were demolished and scattered, by the force of the wind and hail. At Francis B. Warner's, a chimney was blown down, a
1922 Storm
from the New Jersey Mirror Jul 19, 1922: The record rain and electrical storm on Thursday caused much damage around Mount Holly. It was a veritable cloud burst and some of the principal streets of the town were inundated to the depth of a foot or more and resembled raging torrents. Much soil was washed down off the Mount and from nearby building operations on High street and was carried down the new road-way, leaving that thoroughfare in a very untidy condition after the water receded--a condition that the county road authorities and the township committee have failed to remedy thus far. The volume of water was so great that the storm sewer which is supposed to carry the water from High down Water street, was inadequate and the miniature flood ppoured over the hump at the intersection of High, Water, and Garden streets and continued its passage to the creek by way of Main street. Pavements were overflowed and water ran into some stores and basements as thought that were the natural
Weather in Toms River, 1853
From the Ocean Emblem, 23 Jun 1853: On Monday last the thermometer reached ninety degrees