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High winds toppled trees and utility poles, damaging homes and vehicles and closing some roadways in Central Jersey.
Among the damage:
- More than 2,100 electric customers in South Brunswick were reported without power;
- In East Brunswick, high winds knocked wires down closing Route 18 in both directions near Highland Street;
- About half the residents of South River reported power outages due to multiple utility poles and transformers knocked out of service;
- Multiple traffic lights were out of service along Route 516 in Old Bridge due to live wires down;
- Live wires were reported down on the ground along Bittner Road in Millstone;
- Live wires were reported down in Spring Lake along NJ-71 between Essex Avenue and Monmouth Avenue, shutting the state route down;
- Live wires down in Sea Bright along Ocean Avenue;
- Trees and wires down in Middletown, closing Red Hill Road in both directions between Bamm Hollow Road and Holland Road;
- A transformer fire with wires down on Colts Neck Road in Farmingdale.
Earlier Monday, the National Weather Service issued a high-wind watch with a sustained speed of 20 to 30 miles an hour -- and gusts as high as 60 mph along the coast at times.
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