Posted on 10/12/2025 3:04:54 PM PDT by DFG
Outgoing NJ Gov. Phil Murphy was not in New Jersey when a state of emergency was declared Saturday night, leaving Lt. Gov. Tahesha Way — now serving as acting governor — to make the declaration in his stead.
“In preparation for this storm, I am issuing a State of Emergency for all 21 counties out of an abundance of caution, authorizing our state’s emergency services personnel to activate as necessary,” Acting Governor Way announced in a statement Saturday.
The term-limited Democrat, who is known for taking frequent vacations, often to his luxe Italian villa, made no public announcement about his travel plans as the powerful nor’easter is expected to barrel through the state, with the potential to cause significant storm damage.
Murphy’s office sent his public schedule in an Oct. 8 email to reporters announcing he would be traveling to Europe with his wife, Tammy on Oct. 9 and return to New Jersey on Oct. 14.
“Governor Murphy and First Lady Tammy Murphy are out of state this weekend to attend a close family friend’s wedding in Europe. The Governor has been in close communication with his team and emergency response officials regarding the nor’easter storm impacting the East Coast,” Murphy spokesman Tyler Jones told The Post early Sunday evening.
Jones did not say whether Murphy planned to cut his trip short in light of the storm, however.
Way serves as NJ’s secretary of state and was sworn in as Lt. Gov. in Sept. 2023 after the death of her predecessor, Sheila Oliver, who was serving as acting governor at the time of her death while Murphy was again out of the country on vacation.
Murphy’s jet-setting ways have left him open to criticism in the past.
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Because that’s what it is.
It’s a low pressure system that comes up the coast and brings rain or snow with it.
It’s simply a descriptor of the kind of storm it is and the track it takes.
The amount of rain or snow that happens depends on how far inland the center of the low is.
Nope, the term *nor’easter* has been used for well over 100 years.
Nor’easter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nor%27easter
Despite the efforts of Comee and others, the term was frequently used by the press in the 19th century.
The Hartford Times reported on a storm striking New York in December 1839, and observed, “We Yankees had a share of this same “noreaster,” but it was quite moderate in comparison to the one of the 15h inst.”[11]
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, in his semi-autobiographical work The Story of a Bad Boy (1870), wrote “We had had several slight flurries of hail and snow before, but this was a regular nor’easter”.[12]
In her story “In the Gray Goth” (1869) Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward wrote “...and there was snow in the sky now, setting in for a regular nor’easter”.[13]
John H. Tice, in A new system of meteorology, designed for schools and private students (1878), wrote “During this battle, the dreaded, disagreeable and destructive Northeaster rages over the New England, the Middle States, and southward. No nor’easter ever occurs except when there is a high barometer headed off and driven down upon Nova Scotia and Lower Canada.”
Sounds just like Los Angeles Mayor Karen "Large Mouth" Bass when the fires broke out in January.
Picture a storm system moving up along the east coast of the U.S., following a route commonly seen with hurricanes and tropical storms. As it makes its way northward, the first sign of trouble for those in its path will be a strong wind from the northeast due to the counter-clockwise rotation of the storm around its center.
The polls says that he's leading... NJ citizens, elect Jack C.
Fierce winds of 25 mph as well as rain? How terrible. We can see that in some semi-arid parts of of our country. As far as Gov. Murphy, we thankfully don’t see him where I live.
I haven’t dared to look at the news this morning. Is New Jersy still there? Did it survive the stormy apocalypse. Anybody left alive?
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