# Dam Breaks in NJ **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 30, 2012, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dam-breaks-in-nj/639311 "2012-10-30T09:29:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dam-breaks-in-nj/639311/1 "2012-10-30T09:29:51Z")
Sandy’s caused a dam to burst in New Jersey. Details lacking. ---
**Author:** ![Pacific420](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Pacific420](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pacific420)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dam-breaks-in-nj/639311/2 "2012-10-30T09:41:41Z")
Post some details ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dam-breaks-in-nj/639311/3 "2012-10-30T10:42:58Z")
Yup. Especially because it seems like half the stories - even when accompanied by photos - have turned out not to be true. (Not that there isn’t a lot of damage, it’s just that idiots are reposting photos from disaster films and saying “omg look what the hurricane is doing!!1”) [Here’s a link](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49605748/ns/weather/#.UI-veJDZ2Hg) saying a levee was topped in NJ. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dam-breaks-in-nj/639311/4 "2012-10-30T14:15:11Z")
I think you heard a mis-reporting of the levee break story. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dam-breaks-in-nj/639311/5 "2012-10-30T14:16:16Z")
Aaand…now I have Led Zeppelin in my head. There are worse things. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dam-breaks-in-nj/639311/6 "2012-10-30T14:17:13Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Details lacking. You don’t say. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dam-breaks-in-nj/639311/7 "2012-10-30T14:53:14Z")
It seems to be this story, from Northern NJ: > **[Reuters | Breaking International News & Views](https://www.reuters.com?edition-redirect=uk)** > > Find latest news from every corner of the globe at Reuters.com, your online source for breaking international news coverage. > **[Reuters | Breaking International News & Views](https://www.reuters.com?edition-redirect=uk)** > > Find latest news from every corner of the globe at Reuters.com, your online source for breaking international news coverage. Curiously, none of the stories popping up seem to come from NJ sources, like [NJ.com](http://NJ.com) or the Star-Ledger This story from last November from [NJ.com](http://NJ.com) says they’re worried about that very levee’s integrity: > **[Levee system faces 'potential failure'](https://www.nj.com/cranford/2011/11/levee_system_faces_potential_f.html)** > > Representatives from the Army Corps of Engineers came to Cranford for a special workshop meeting to discuss the integrity of the township’s levee system, the potential for increasing the capacity of Lenape Park basin, and the modeling of a retention... Aha! Here it is: [http://www.nj.com/newsflash/index.ssf/story/levee-breaks-in-nj-town-hundreds-being/4ec18080f1c3494494c1498bb4ac6ac3](http://www.nj.com/newsflash/index.ssf/story/levee-breaks-in-nj-town-hundreds-being/4ec18080f1c3494494c1498bb4ac6ac3) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dam-breaks-in-nj/639311/8 "2012-10-30T22:21:55Z")
The early AM story said it was a dam. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dam-breaks-in-nj/639311/9 "2012-10-31T02:40:40Z")
Hmm. Well I’ll be damned. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dam-breaks-in-nj/639311/10 "2012-10-31T02:41:20Z")
Damn levees. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dam-breaks-in-nj/639311/11 "2012-10-31T02:55:14Z")
did Chris Christie lean on it?