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Online Stock Market Trading Floods have left scars on the landscape and psyche of Central Jersey. What follows are recollections, facts and figures about recent storms that wreaked havoc. With increased development and little remediation, the region could be doomed to repeat history.

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Stock Investing Course Tropical Storm Doria blew into Somerset County and dumped more than 10 inches of rain. By sunset of Aug. 28, 1971, the Raritan had crested at 37.5 feet in Bound Brook.

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Stock Market News Just two years later, Thursday, Aug. 2, 1973, a storm with no name claimed a much greater toll. That storm caused six deaths, 34 injuries and the evacuation of more than 1,000 residents.

Stock Investing Basics "A big black cloud just hung over the first ridge of the Watchung Mountains and dumped water on the area," said Vernon Noble, chairman of the Green Brook Flood Control Commission and mayor of Green Brook when the flood occurred.

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Stock Market Chart "The smell was the thing that got me," said Jim Effinger, who came to his family's aid. "When you came into Bound Brook it smelled like a cesspool. Driving back to Trenton, I had to put a sheet of plastic on my car seat and hose down before I went in the house."

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Stock Market Crash Of "The water came up the street just like a tidal wave. I was down in the basement taping up a cellar window when it happened. I heard a rumbling and a crash. I took the steps two at a time and when I turned around the water had come up the steps. It was just a split second. If I had just been on the other side of the basement, I might not have made it."

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Stock Market Report On Oct. 18, 1996, another torrential downpour dumped 6 inches of rain on the area and caused widespread destruction particularly in Bound Brook, Manville and Branchburg. Evacuations were conducted in both Manville and North Branch.

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Stock Market Investing Advice "The force of floodwater is indescribable," said resident Dinah Mahl at the time. "It's a great lesson in humanity. You see that you have control over nothing."

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Free Journal Street Wall Tatiana Rodriguez, a resident of West High Street in Bound Brook, thought her family had "everything under control. But everything we did was pointless. It just started coming in the basement windows, the doors, everywhere. It was unstoppable. There was nothing we could do."

Stock Market Information In the 20th Century, the Green Brook Flood Control Commission reports there were 12 flooding events that caused more than $2.5 billion in damage.

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