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hatrack

(59,585 posts)
Wed Aug 13, 2014, 09:51 AM Aug 2014

+/- 9 Inches Of Rainfall Overnight In Cumberland County, NJ (Millville)

The Millville area received nearly 9 inches of rain overnight, the second highest rainfall since the National Weather Service started keeping records in 1947.

That rain caused flooding and evacuations throughout Cumberland County.

The fire department alerted the American Red Cross Southern Shore Chapter to the fact that six people were displaced at about 1:30 a.m. because of a structure collapse due to flooding, on 3rd Street in Vineland, but those displaced by the collapse refused to speak with emergency personnel or Red Cross workers.

Approximately five feet of water on Rhonda Drive in Millville caused some structural collapses and some reported detecting the odor of natural gas coming from bubbles in the water, so emergency personnel treated it as a gas leak.

EDIT

http://www.nj.com/south/index.ssf/2014/08/millville_flooding_causes_some_evacuations_during_nearly_9-inch_rainfall.html

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