Torrential downpours unleashed severe flash flooding across Lakewood early Sunday morning, turning roads into rivers, inundating basements, and leaving dozens of vehicles submerged.
The deluge began around 6 a.m., quickly overwhelming drainage systems and leaving entire neighborhoods under water. Among the hardest-hit areas was River Avenue, where floodwaters rose so high that the parking lot of First Commerce Bank was completely submerged—earning the road its namesake once again. A viral video taken by local humorist Yaakov Berger captured the surreal scene, with waves lapping against vehicles and sidewalks completely inundated beneath the floodwaters. A similar scene was captured in the Coventry Square neighborhood and in the neighborhoods near Pine and MLK.
Chaveirim has been working since the flooding began, responding to hundreds of calls from residents trapped or in distress. Its volunteers have carried out multiple rescues, including extrications of individuals trapped inside their vehicles that became trapped in flooded roadways and rescuing sifrei torah from the Doiver Shalom Strettin shul on Squankum Road.
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The חרון אף השם displaying immense displeasure for Lakewood leaders telling their flock not to vote at the incredibly important WZO elections
147:
Having an agenda is one thing. Kind of rotten. But suggesting that you know Hashem’s cheshbon is blasphemous. That is worse than chutzpah, and you should be ashamed of yourself. I’m no fan of either side of voting for the WZO, and didn’t vote simply out of שב ואל תעשה. I wasn’t particularly fond of Gedolim labeling those with opposite opinions as something negative. Sounds like a מחלוקת שלא לשם שמים, and this leaves no winners. But your comment was most disturbing, and places your basic emunoh in the crosshairs of serious questions.
147, how do you know that that particular chet, among many others, was the cause of the mabul? Perhaps, too much gashmiut or sinat chinom? No human can know – ki lo machshevosai machshevosaichem?
For many people in Lakewood this is the second time in less then 2 weeks that their basement’s and cars got flooded.
147,
Wow, a Navi Hashem among us!