I lived in brick in waterside gardens about .25 miles from the bay and I can tell you it was a night of ringing doorbells to wake people up, getting cars moved to high ground and people up into 2nd floor neighbor apartments. I was playing Skyrim until the power went out around 9/10p and water came in around 11p/12a. I used my car radio for local news since our apartment lot had some high ground. Whole neighborhood was flooded around 12:30. Cars in the lot were flooded but some of us got them onto grass and were fortunate. Rest of the night it was take photos from the apartment cause how could you not, we were trapped, and watching the random green glow of electrical transformers exploding in the distance.

Afterwards, without electricity and heat, it snowed a day or so after and police asked us to leave again. Then it was about two weeks of grilling outdoors with neighbors and oddly fun in those moments. The Ark in pt pleasant was closed a while I remember, right next to a military spot light that was temporarily set up.

I worked a temp job at ocean first bank in the mail room which had generator power and we were handing out whatever cardboard boxes we could find to generally anyone that needed it.

We all have stories of that night and as horrible as it was we are so unbelievably fortunate that it is not an annual occurrence like other parts of the country.