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UPDATED: Latest Blizzard Videos and Images from Point Pleasant
As winter storm Jonas bore down on the Jersey shore, Point Pleasant residents have stepped outside to capture the impact.
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A foot of snow, 60-mile-per-hour winds, flooding, power outages and a statewide state of emergency: those are the effects so far in the winter storm that began bearing down on New Jersey and Point Pleasant overnight. So far over a foot of snow has fallen in parts of New Jersey, and officials expect the snow to continue falling at a rate of three inches per hour throughout the day.
Officials in Barnegat, Toms River, Lacey, Manasquan and other towns have asked residents to evacuate from vulnerable areas.
ABC7 caught this video of the incredible and intimidating surf:
NBC 4’s Checkey Beckford caught this frightening image of a transformer explosion this afternoon on the corner of Ocean Ave. and Forman.
At 6am this morning, Twitter user Mike Lappke posted the following video of wind and snow at Point Pleasant Canal.
At just after 10am this morning, user Nick Shane posted this amazing video of winds on the Manasquan River near Point Pleasant:
Meanwhile Lori Spano captured this image outside a front door:
We’ll be updating this page with video and images throughout the day. In the meantime, keep checking back with the Point Pleasant Patch for the latest storm updates in town.
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