Superintendents grappled with how best to keep students safe, weighing whether it was wiser to hold them in schools that were dark and increasingly cold, or send them home in buses on roads littered with trees and downed power lines.
If the slope is littered with trees it might not be a good idea.
"Throughout the entire 26 square miles of the city, streets are littered with trees and tree limbs, downed power lines and wires," Pasadena City Manager Michael Beck said in an interview in the basement of City Hall.
Schools in more than half a dozen towns in Union and Middlesex Counties, in central New Jersey, as well as those in Lynbrook were closed today because buses could not negotiate streets littered with tree limbs and power lines.
Flooding from the Category 1 hurricane was reported in low-lying areas, and streets in downtown Hamilton, the capital, were covered in several inches of water and littered with tree branches and other debris.
But officials warned homeowners, restaurants and other businesses about the risks of spoilage of unrefrigerated or improperly stored food; they also cautioned motorists and pedestrians about streets littered with tree limbs and storm debris, and set up sites for residents to get water or ice.
On Sunday, Sunset Beach was littered with tree branches, seaweed and other debris.
There were no injuries, the Manalapan Township Police Department said, but the tornado left the town littered with fallen trees, blown-out windows and scattered debris.
The main river that cuts through the capital overflowed its banks and surging water crashed into the principal bridge that leads into Roseau, whose roads were littered with fallen trees and light poles.
Even the town cemetery, where Prattsville's founder, Zadock Pratt, was buried in 1871, was littered with fallen trees and cracked tombstones from Tropical Storm Irene's wind and water as it ripped through the Catskills.
The West Bank area of the city was spared any flooding, but in the days and weeks after the storm, it was littered with fallen trees and, according to witnesses, with the bodies of several black men — none of whom appeared to have drowned.
