Urgent Storm Message From Police Chief and Mayor - State Of Emergency

you get a good picture in here hi this is Stephen Langer the mayor of Lakewood here with uh Chief Rob Lawson of the Lakewood Police Department we've been out patrolling for quite a while down a public works we have equipment we have me power out on the street the best thing that you can do to help us is to move the cars off the street we have instances where plows cannot get off the street because there streets are even if we plow you out and when we do please do not effect there is still a state of emergency please stay home do not go on the road you will just add and create problems by going out in the road please at least until tomorrow stay home if you need to dig your car out fine but stay off the streets thank you very much well aware that there are certain streets in lakeood that have not been plowed at all we are on top of it the public parks is aware of it they have trucks going around unfortunately some of our larger trucks have uh mechanical problems one thing I want the people of to know do different contact mayors of the surrounding towns I've been in contact with some of the freeholders everyone is facing the same problems today just know that if you could get out there really is nowhere to go today so please for today grab a shovel help your neighbor and tomorrow we'll figure out what we can do better thank you also I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all of our emergency responders especially havam who have as of this morning had answered 500 calls throughout the night they just did a fantastic job so thank you guys you should be the mayor because that's the first thing I should have done I should thank the P DPW guys who've been on trucks for over 24 hours and especially atalah Police Department everybody who's who's pulling double and triple shfs town of Lakewood sincerely supports it and we thank you and is the mayor of