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• On the article How to Help Victims of the Oklahoma Tornado

  foggyworld

  6:15 pm on Tuesday, May 21, 2013

  Possibly it has something to do with geo-engineering.

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• On the article Reflections On 'Chemical Town'

  

  foggyworld

  10:36 pm on Monday, May 20, 2013

  Butch, I have a map somewhere that shows that many, many of the water companies' around here were polluted during Sandy. It just doesn't make the papers. Try the bottled stuff for anything that you consume internally at least.

  I did write to the NJ DEP to suggest the Bay be closed down until AshBritt had finished and everything had been tested. As it is now, every piling barge and cigarette boat or what have you will serve as an excuse for the possible damage AshBritt may do. They were in my neighborhood and acting like jerks frankly by tossing a recently planted clam bed onto a boat. There are no up-to-date maps of the Bay and those who live on it have been excluded from providing information.

  And FEMA has already warned us that AshBritt's very high bills will be super-audited and so we run the risk of NJ not getting paid very much for all the money squandered on a plan devised for Connecticut's much different Long Island Sound that had no Ciba Geigy and doesn't have the stiller waters of a Bay.

  Now add all those Oyster Creek fish kills into the mix and it becomes worrisome.

• On the article Reflections On 'Chemical Town'

  

  foggyworld

  10:25 pm on Monday, May 20, 2013

  I have been researching this and keep running into blank walls. Unfortunately and unwisely, the agreements reached with Ciba-Geigy (now Novartis), all contained confidentiality agreements so even people who were very involved back then do not have answers that I expected them to have.

  Add to the possibility that that under the Bay pipeline is still there but possibly capped on the ends, it is important to know that the inside of the pipe was smeared with horribly toxic chemicals to keep it "waterproof." Well, that pipe line blew open in several parts of Toms River from under the blacktop it was hidden by even though those pieces had also been"waterproofed."

  And somehow we now are looking at an out-of-state dredging company with somewhat obsolete equipment getting ready to send in picker boats with huge metal jaws to at the least disrupt whatever is in the sediment at the bottom of this very shallow Bay.

  NY unlike signing a piggyback contract, is paying more but for a reason. They who didn't have Ciba Geigy, are removing what they dredge up and shipping it way upstate in NY where it will be buried. Some of what is dredged in NJ, however, is going to be sifted by AshBritt and included in the 25' dunes on the barrier island.

  No one seems to have any sense of history. Please read Fagin's book: Toms River. And then start screaming.

• On the article Reflections On 'Chemical Town'

  

  foggyworld

  10:11 pm on Monday, May 20, 2013

  Bigger problem because when Oyster Creek finally shuts down, they will leave over 50,000 irradiated but spent rods that will require 300,000 years to get rid of that radiation via half lives. Those rods will be encased in concrete and I don't think concrete will last anywhere near that long.

• On the article Remember: Smoking E-Cigarettes Inside is Illegal, State Says

  foggyworld

  11:14 pm on Monday, May 20, 2013

  Science is rarely used by legislators who spend their days on the inane.

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• On the article Home Buyouts in Flood Zones to Begin Soon

  foggyworld

  11:14 pm on Monday, May 20, 2013

  Proud,

  A thousand home won't be elevated and in good part because the current building codes are so obsolete that we would just see a replay of what was going on before Sandy.

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• On the article Home Buyouts in Flood Zones to Begin Soon

  

  foggyworld

  11:14 pm on Monday, May 20, 2013

  That is not the story for many people. We all know that the insurance premiums we paid for were worthless but that isn't the major problem for many folks. People have no idea of what the building codes will look like and it seems they will go through several revisions because the majority of FEMA's experience is based on what they theoretically dealt with in the South where masonry housing is the primary mode of building.

  FEMA doesn't do any original work and it is going to take them time to get up to speed with all of the efforts made for decades by the American Association of Architects and the Structural Engineers who have joined forces with them. So the first temporary maps won't throw off sound enough information and many people are wisely just waiting until there is some sense to what codes will be used.

  NJ unfortunately does not have a State code tailored to geography and as a result we have all sorts of inexperienced local politicians being permitted to make choices that should be made by professional architects, engineers and let's hear from Stevens Institute with it's many wave tank studies. And Princeton has a great school of architecture. We need to hear from them too.

  But it's business as usual and the in-crowd is trying its best to keep the best and the brightest out of this State. Very sad but it is wise to wait longer and hope that sanity enters the picture at some point.

• On the article Home Buyouts in Flood Zones to Begin Soon

  

  foggyworld

  11:14 pm on Monday, May 20, 2013

  The good news is that the National Weather Service has announced that the likelihood of this area being hit again this summer isn't likely at all. I think the odds are one in 10 million.

  Instead of running, some of us are actually working together and trying to pool resources and share as well as help one another.

• On the article Home Buyouts in Flood Zones to Begin Soon

  

  foggyworld

  11:14 pm on Monday, May 20, 2013

  Land grab it is and to that unending lines of speculators stream in and out of this neighborhood that overwhelmingly wants to stay put. I almost wish we could get a Sunday curfew so the gawking would stop just for one day a week. At some point we need quiet time and just can't seem to get any.

• On the article Home Buyouts in Flood Zones to Begin Soon

  

  foggyworld

  11:14 pm on Monday, May 20, 2013

  Interestingly, not a single house on Good Luck Point is for sale. We are trying to work together to support the return of the displaced and surely would welcome some clear direction and leadership from our paid political representatives.