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ORTLEY BEACH

TUCKERTON

TUESDAY 11.18.14

TIDES TAKE
A BAD TURN? N.J.
college
costs come
Ocean County called sixth-worst place
to buy a home by Weather Channel

under the
microscope

ERIK LARSEN @ERIK_LARSEN

TOMS RIVER Welcome to Ocean
County, but to quote the Italian poet
Dante, abandon all hope, ye who
enter here.
Ocean County not only is the
most dangerous place to live in the
Plumsted
United States according to Time
Magazine this summer its now
been declared the sixth-worst place in
the nation to purchase a home by The
Weather Channel.
Thats upset the Board of Freeholders, who have taken these reports rather
personally.
At an agenda meeting last week, Freeholder John C. Bartlett Jr. admonished
the national cable and satellite channel
to just focus on getting its weather forecasts right.
The five-member, all-Republican
board also issued a formal statement
calling the distinction disappointing,
irresponsible and incredibly disingenuous.
On its website, The Weather Channel
published a list of Worst Places To Own
A Home: The 50 Worst Counties For
Homeowners, Based On Natural Factors.
Ocean County made the top 10 after
Orleans Parish, Louisiana; Hancock
County, Mississippi; Harrison County,
Mississippi; Jackson County, Mississippi; and Cameron Parish, Louisiana. Parishes are what Louisiana calls its counties.
Ocean County, on the Jersey Shore
due east of Philadelphia, is the most populous county in our top 10, with about
580,000 residents, read the article, explaining that Ocean County sustained an
estimated $10 billion in damage after superstorm Sandy on Oct. 29, 2012.

Point
Pleasant

Point
Pleasant
Beach

Jackson
Lakewood

Bay Head

20-bill Assembly package includes

an end to meal-plan requirement

Mantoloking

Brick

Brick
Toms River

Lakehurst

Toms River

BOB JORDAN @BOBJORDANAPP

Lavalette
Ortley Beach
Seaside Park

Manchester
Beachwood

TRENTON Are New Jersey colleges facing their

day of reckoning when it comes to affordability and a
trend of students not graduating on time?
The state Assembly is at work on a 20-bill package
that sponsors say is intended to address problems of
New Jersey students leaving school with massive debt
and too frequently without degrees.
Legislation imposing price controls on tuition and
fees was advanced in October over the protests of representatives of Rutgers University and other state
schools. The proposal would permit incoming students
to pay the same rate for nine semesters after they enroll. Future rate increases would affect each freshman
class to follow, with new freeze rates implemented.
Seven more bills were approved by the lower house
last Thursday, including a measure especially creative
at cutting costs: Four-year schools would be prohibited
from requiring students to purchase meal plans.

Seaside Hieghts

Berkeley

Berkeley

OCEAN
COUNTY
Island Beach
State Park

Lacey

ATLANTIC
OCEAN

BARNEGAT
BAY

Waretown
Barnegat

Barnegat Light
Long Beach
Stafford

Harvey Cedars

See COLLEGE, Page A4

Long Beach
Surf City

Eagleswood

Ship Bottom
Tuckerton
Long Beach
Little
Egg
Harbor

LITTLE EGG
HARBOR

GREAT
BAY

Beach Haven

Long Beach

See OCEAN, Page A4

The Weather Channel has listed Ocean County as the sixthworst place in America to own a home after a nationwide analysis of historical and risk-related weather events, climate and
natural disaster data.

Which N.J. county do you

think is the worst to live in?
Take the survey with this
story at

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimates Ocean

County sustained $10 billion in property damage from superstorm Sandy.
Between 1996 and 2013, eight Ocean County residents have died while
sheltered in their homes during extreme weather events or other natural
disasters, including four people who either drowned or succumbed to hypothermia during superstorm Sandy.
Ocean County faces a potential loss of life, property and jobs in the future
from the risk of wildfires in the Pine Barrens.

ACCUWEATHER.COM

Another shot of cold air is about to invade New Jersey.

Frigid wind chills

make it feel more
like January today
TODD B. BATES @TODDBBATESAPP

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Brrrrrrrrrrr! Brace for January-like cold in New

Jersey.
By early (Tuesday) morning, wind chills in Monmouth and Ocean counties will be in the upper teens,
said Kristin Kline, a meteorologist in the National
Weather Service Mount Holly office.
Wind chills for Wednesday morning they are going to be in the single digits, she said. Basically, its
going to feel more like January rather than November.
Lows on Wednesday morning likely will be around 17
to 19 in interior sections of Monmouth and Ocean coun and
20 to21closer to the coast, according to Kline.
It
ties
will be the coldest air of the season in the region, resulting in near-record lows, according to the weather service.
The arctic cold is coming down from Canada, and
winds Tuesday will be around 15 to 25 mph, gusting to 30
mph, according to experts. But no snow is on the horizon, as it was expected to be dry following Mondays

See FRIGID, Page A5

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