How Did Irene Affect You, How Was Borough’s Response?

By early afternoon Sunday, Fort Lee had seen the worst of Irene. Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich said the borough’s emergency operations center at the Fort Lee Police Department was going to shut down, and the cleanup began in earnest.

Earlier in the day, Sokolich told Patch, officials were dealing with a couple of downed trees, “pockets of flooding,” limited power outages, a pump station with a faulty generator and failed transformers behind Borough Hall, but that otherwise the borough was in pretty good shape in the wake of Hurricane Irene, which passed through early Sunday morning.

“Fort lee is surviving this storm very, very well,” Sokolich said at the time. “We’re fielding complaints and calls as they come in, but I don’t think it’s nearly as bad as a lot of folks thought. And, by the way, thank God.”

Now want to hear it from your perspective. This week we’re asking Patch readers: How did Irene affect you, and how, in your opinion, did the borough do in the storm’s aftermath? Were you one of those hundreds left without power? Did your basement flood, and, if so, how did the borough respond?