Stormy A blizzard that stuck the east coast from Virginia to Boston in February of 1940 caused several headlines in local newspapers, but all reports indicated there were no serious accidents though the snow was termed hazardous. Keyport was the only municipality in the Bayshore that had any power, light or telephone outages.
Both the Atlantic Highlands First Aid volunteers and the Coast Guard at Sandy Hook were kept busy, however, and accomplished their dangerous missions with little mishap.
The Atlantic Highlands squad rescued a Long Branch driver when his car skidded on ice near Hilton Park on Route 36. The vehicle hit the center island, rolled, and left him pinned inside. The squad responded, righted the car, and brought the driver to Monmouth Medical Center where his cuts and bruises were treated and determined to be “more painful than serious.”
On another night during the week the storm left roads impassable, the first aid squad responded to a call from Mrs. Fred Holstad of Leonardo that she was about to have a baby and needed to go to Monmouth Medical Center. Ocean Avenue was closed due to snow and ice, but the squad, adhering to her needs, drove through Red Bank in order to get from Leonardo to Long Branch.
Out on the Shrewsbury River, Furman Conover of Highlands was not letting ice storms interfere with his clamming profession. However, while he was out of his boat standing on ice and clamming in the river, the boat was swept away by the tide, and Conover was left standing marooned on a block of ice. When someone from the shore saw him, they notified the Coast Guard and Chief Boatswain Batem Miller and his crew battled a tide to get out to the ice flow as it was breaking up and Conover was heading further out to sea.
The clammer was treated for “exposure and fear” but otherwise weathered the incident.
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