As others have noted, knowing where you need to go in NJ would be useful in providing you the best answer. It’s a large area with few transit options in more rural areas,particularly late in the evening.

Ideally, just widen 31 into a proper road. It's already been done between Clinton and Ringoes for the most part. The rest of the road get the same amount of traffic according to NJDOT but it's single lane each way with few, if any, places to pass and few jug handles to separate turning traffic. There have been numerous accidents on it near me in Warren County and it's only getting worse.

And western NJ needs a north/south route that isn’t two-lane, undivided Route 31. But I’m not holding my breath.

I routinely look at the NYC skyline from 15 miles away and those buildings are fucking TINY. What are wind turbines (if you could even see them!) going to look like at that distance?

How far off the coast are they supposed to be anyway? How visible could they actually be?

Nope. Ordered it myself.

Man Skirt is just up the street from them. Not bad either!

I used to be in and out of Newark all the time. Knew the way to 78 West like the back of my hand. One day, I blinked at the wrong time and wound up in downtown Newark.

Start at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wander the American Wing. Walk over to Lexington and grab the subway downtown to Grand Central for cocktails at the Campbell Apartment (check the dress code!). Stop in the Whispering Gallery outside the Oyster Bar in Grand Central to whisper in each other’s ears. Dinner at Pershing Square across the street.

Warren County hears your cries and adds its own.

I grew up in NYC and one of the big changes for me moving out here is the complete and utter lack of any sort of mass transit. Even where it exists (RVL), it’s useless; 1:30 from High Bridge to Newark is a joke.

Those are like toes. Big toes.

It’s more that you can go from 50°-60° weather where no one in their right mind would have winter tires on their vehicle to 20° and three feet of fresh powder in an hour or two drive. I did this myself visiting a friend in Sacramento and going skiing at Boreal. 90 mile drive and a mile and half elevation increase.

Give them as much courtesy in taking it down as they did you in putting it up.

This.

Head injuries are far too easy to have happen and can be life altering/ending experiences. Helmets are cheap compared to the alternatives.

On the plus side, if you loop the extension cords back and forth across the driveway, you’ve got a free snowmelt system!

Crap like this is why I use Brave as my browser and run a Pihole for DNS on my local network.

FWIW, my parents had this happen to them with a car they that bought in 1999, paid off in 2004, and kept until 2018.

Despite having a title that was clearly marked as having the lien released, the MVC had no record of it being paid off. Made a hash out of what should have been a no-brainer transfer of an essentially worthless vehicle.

It might be worth a check with them to insure that all the paperwork processed correctly.

Unless you have a couple dozen mining rigs running in your house there’s no way you used that much juice.

If you can’t afford a full tank, look at ways to try and reduce what you are using. Setting back thermostats is an obvious first but there are plenty of ways (and products) to mitigate heat loss and draft infiltration that might be cheaper in the long run. Just don’t let your pipes freeze!

Getting the kids to a safe area would seem to be paramount. Given that the facility was that close and that you were already speaking with the police this seems a no-brainer.

Call your insurance?

If it's military they don't usually show on ADS-B based apps like that.

The last part is always a good idea. A neighbor of my living in rural NJ had her Springer gored by a buck one night when she let him out to do his thing. Fortunately the dog was OK but it could have ended badly.

That'd be Mars!

I like the idea of something like banger bars/chains hanging over the roadway. I suggested a chicane to my local road works but there’s no room for the here. You could probably do it easily for the notch though. A chicane on each side to get them stuck in a place that they can be removed from easily as opposed to all the way up the road.

Edit: I was thinking about the chains/bars for my own local issue, not for the notch. I still think a really tight, extreme chicane on both sides could work nicely to prevent this. It wouldn’t take up much space and wouldn’t do anything to normal traffic flow other than cause a brief slow down, which is how I’ve seen them used elsewhere - as traffic calming devices.