Jersey Shore Pre-Holiday Forecast: Rain & Wind Then Flash Freeze
Also in local news: Netflix finalizes plan for Fort Monmouth development; Sandy clawbacks could be permanently stopped.
Great news for Monmouth County. The economic impact of the Netflix plan for their new deal to build a new production facility at the former site of Fort Monmouth in Eatontown. The site has been sitting mostly vacant for the past ten years. Netflix plans to put nearly 850-million-dollars towards constructing the half-a-million square foot state of the art facility that will include a dozen sound stages. Once complete, the facility near Eatontown and Oceanport is expected to bring more than 15-hundred permanent jobs to the area.
More police departments in New Jersey are joining the attorney general’s mental health initiative. The ARRIVE Together program will now be updated and expanded to additional municipalities in Union, Atlantic and Cumberland counties. The program pairs a trooper with a mental health screener when they respond to 9-1-1 calls about mental or behavioral crises. In some cases a mental health advocate will accompany the 911 intervention in an unmarked car, in others the advocate will participate via a tablet and telehealth tools.
Might be a permanent reprieve coming for some Superstorm Sandy victims still on the hook for paying back Sandy aid. The federal spending package that is working its’ way through Congress may include a halt to the clawbacks for about 1700 New Jersey residents, many on the Jersey Shore, who the federal government contends received too much aid from Sandy disaster aid packages. This means those families would not have to pay back that money. Groups that work with Sandy victims say in many cases clawbacks have happened because of clerical errors.
A weird weather system approaching Monmouth and Ocean counties will bring significant rain and wind and then plummeting temperatures. Up to 3 inches of rain with winds up to 50 miles an hour beginning today at noon. That’ll last through tomorrow, late morning. Behind that system is an arctic blast – forecasters say that temps could drop 30 degrees tomorrow, starting with a morning high near 50 and ending up in the teens by midnight. Saturday and Sunday, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day highs will be in the 20’s.
