The Somers Record 09.09.21

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Somers readies for Big Bang Somers’
volunteer
Fireworks show to be held at firefighters
Reis Park on Sept. 18 raced to lower
Westchester
BY CAROL REIF plays. “ rown Together,” which bills to provide
STAFF WRITER itself as “not your mother’s cover band,” “mutual aid”
will be providing funk and classic Rock services to other
Somers is hoping that lighting up the from artists such as e Allman Broth- departments.
skies will lift local spirits. ers, e Beatles, Pink Floyd, and Marvin
Gaye. e band features Ryan O’Connor PHOTO COURTESY
“ is town needs a ‘Big Bang’ after (vocals/guitar), John DeSanto (drums/ OF SVFD
the year we’ve had,” said Supervisor Rick vocals), Jimmy Brogan (bass/vocals), and
Morrissey last week, referring to the name Tom Dillon (guitar). Hurricane Heroes
of the planned event.
Garden State “has always put on a great SVFD aids surrounding towns during storm
In 2019,folks celebrated at an Indepen- show for us,” Morrissey said ursday, BY CAROL REIF whammy for a region just getting its act
dence Day Block Party at Sebastian Capi- Sept. 2, urging residents to come out and
tal Urban Campus, aka the old PepsiCo “just enjoy” themselves. STAFF WRITER together after Tropical Storm Henri
site, o Route 100. But last July, the pan-
demic put the brakes on large gatherings. As for public health concerns, Reis lashed the Northeast with forceful winds
has enough space for attendees to safely
On Saturday, Sept. 18, they will gather spread out, town o cials say. Gathering Somers was thanking its lucky stars after and record-breaking rains in August.
again to ooh and ahh over colorful re- outdoors should be ne as long as people
works, enjoy hamburgers and hot dogs, “use common sense” and don’t sit right on escaping relatively unscathed during last Fortunately, in Somers, only a road or
and boogie down to live music. is time, top of each other, Morrissey added. (Cur-
the “Town of Somers Big Bang Fireworks rent Centers for Disease Control guide- week’s historic storm. two had to be temporarily closed while
Celebration”will take place from 5 p.m. to lines say that “in general”masks don’t need
9 p.m. at Reis Park o Route 139 (Prim- to be worn outdoors. However, the CDC e remnants of Hurricane Ida emergency crews cleared fallen trees and
rose Street), town o cials announced said people should consider it if the out-
door venue is located in an area with high drenched the Hudson Valley region, leav- restored electrical systems.
ursday, Sept. 2. numbers of COVID-19 cases, is crowded,
It is for residents only. and activities will involve close contact ing thousands without power and ooding “We kind of lose sight when hurricanes
with others who are not fully vaccinated.)
ere will be limited parking at Reis. homes and businesses, especially in south- hit in the Gulf, but boy, she came roaring
Parking will also be available at Primrose is year has been so “stressful and
Elementary School and Somers High challenging” that the town really, really ern Westchester. Dozens of deaths were up the interior of the country and hit us
School just up the road.Lions Club mem- wanted to do something to help its resi-
bers and police will be directing tra c. dents “smile a little bit,” said Lions Club reported from Pennsylvania to New Jersey, hard,” said Supervisor Rick Morrissey at
president Larry U er Friday, Sept. 3.
e rain date is Sunday, Sept. 19. New York, and Connecticut. ursday’s Town Board work session.
Manning the grill will be volunteers
from the local Lions Club. Garden State e low-lying village of Mamaroneck, It was water more than wind that was
Fireworks is in charge of the aerial dis-
prone to ooding because it’s located be- the main issue in northern Westchester

tween the Long Island Sound and two and points east. Morrissey was “happy to

rivers, was literally swamped when Ida say we had no roads that got washed out

barreled   through as a tropical storm on SEE HEROES PAGE 33
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Your Neighbor

A weatherman for all seasons
Somers’ Lee Goldberg celebrates 25-year milestone

BY CAROL REIF it, they can plan for it. were “gung-ho,” Goldberg said. long enough to report producing more precipitation,
STAFF WRITER Taking all that raw Not long afterward, the during the winter of [and] more damaging.”
1995-1996, which
Weather is a “puzzle” that Lee input on temperature, 13-year-old with braces donned buried the city in more Pointing to the extreme
Goldberg’s been trying to solve air pressure and wind his bar mitzvah suit to make his than 15 feet of the drought in the Southwest, it
most of his life. speed and turning into forecasting debut at a cable TV white stu . seems hard to argue that things
something useful is no station in his hometown of Can- like that are merely an anomaly,
Putting together the pieces of easy task. No one com- ton, Mass. It was no backwater he said.
a forecast is part science, part art, puter model is perfect, ‘burb, careerwise.
according to the chief meteorolo- so that’s where human Now he dresses considerably Just prior to Tropical Storm
gist for Channel 7’s “Eyewitness brainpower comes in. more nattily. When Goldberg got “ ose stations Henri, the station’s weather bal-
News.” his New York City gig, he headed up there were like a loons found “a record amount of
“It’s a complex puz- straight for the tailors. pipeline” to the bigger moisture available in a column of
e meteorology biz has zle we try to solve, and markets, he said. “You air.”
changed a lot since Goldberg it’s the favorite part of “My rst gift to myself was to wouldn’t believe the
came on board at WABC-TV 25 my day,” says Gold- get a custom-made suit,” he said. talent that came out of at was “remarkable,” in
years ago. Advances in technol- berg, who was 6 when there.” Goldberg’s opinion.
ogy, for instance. the Blizzard of 1978 Goldberg earned a degree in
hit the northeastern meteorology at Cornell Uni- Goldberg came to Knowing the trajectory of
A hundred years ago, those U.S. versity in 1994 while interning WABC-TV in 1996 where things are going – global
who watched the skies were able at television stations in Boston. as the station’s week- warming-wise – is as much about
to only guess what was going to e Boston area, He got his rst serious shot in end forecaster. Now protecting people as it is trying to
happen in a day or two. Now, where he lived at the the spotlight in 1993, lling in its chief meteorolo- slow down the process, he said.
thanks to computer models and time, got slammed at WSTM-TV in Syracuse, an gist, the 48-year-old
global data-sharing networks, with 2 feet of snow. upstate city renown for its lake- anchors “Eyewitness ere are a lot of “things that
they can accurately predict pat- Rhode Islanders re- e ect snow. News Accu-Weather” can happen going forward.”
terns weeks or even months in corded a inches. Even coverage at 4, 5, 6 and
advance. for New Englanders e gig arrived just in time 11 p.m. “We don’t necessarily know
used to harsh winters, to cover the Blizzard of 1993, that we’re not in a cycle where
With super-charged weather that was impressive. a two-day storm that dumped DEFINING MOMENT could there be global cooling in
upping the stakes for humanity, more than 3? feet on Central Superstorm Sandy and the 10, 30 years. It’s not out of the
that’s not a bad thing. Having a week o from school New York. question. It could depend on
really xed the storm in his widespread damage it caused volcanic activity, there could be a
Even so, the important thing child’s mind. He stayed around Syracuse presented what Goldberg feels lot of things that contribute to it,
is meteorology, not “model-ogy.” was a “de ning moment” in but at least in our lifetime, for our
Goldberg said. “I just saw the power of that weather history. kids, their grandkids, we have to
[storm] and it really was amaz- protect based on what we’re see-
“If you’re just reading models, ing,” Goldberg said. “It’s at the top of the list; there’s ing now.”
then I think you’re doing yourself no doubt about it,” even com-
a disservice because it’s about pat- Seven years later, Hurricane pared to the historic nor’easter of SETTLED IN SOMERS
tern recognition, it’s about under- Gloria arrived. Hundreds of 2016, he said. Goldberg and his wife, Jessica,
standing the underlining physics thousands of people from South
of everything and the limitations Carolina to Maine were evacu- Sandy made the world pay a preschool teacher, have two
of what the models can do.” ated. Millions were left without more attention to climate change. children, Emily, 21, and Ethan,
power and 14 people died. Since then, moves have been 19, both of whom went to local
One of the bene ts of being made to protect vulnerable areas schools. Emily became interested
around 25 years is just “seeing at clinched Goldberg’s life- from the worst e ects. in fashion while at Somers High
things over and over again,” he long passion for prediction. School and now studies design
said, admitting he’s seeing things Meteorologists also started at Syracuse University. Ethan,
now he’s “never seen before.” Characterizing himself as “a adapting their coverage to t the who was into cross-country and
weather geek” since childhood, situation, he said. baseball, is at Cornell University
e way people consume news Goldberg said that when it came studying international labor rela-
may change, but “you’ll never to birthdays, instead of asking Hurricane seasons seem to be tions.
take the human out of it,” Gold- for something like a bicycle, he getting longer and more intense.
berg asserted. sought weather-tracking instru- e couple, who attended the
ments. With his parents’ blessing, “Without getting into a con- same nursery school, started dat-
With better targeting, he he set up a rudimentary weather troversial debate over what causes ing in middle school.
thinks the “hyper-local forecast is station in their basement. it, there’s no denying the elevated
going to be the continuing evo- nature of all of our weather sys- “I guess we were meant to be
lution.” People can’t control the Despite the unorthodox nature tems,” Goldberg said, adding: soulmates,” he said.
weather, but with real-time fore- of their son’s nascent career goals, “A lot of my worst-case scenario
casts literally at their ngertips, his mom, a teacher, and his father, forecasts are verifying all the When Emily and Ethan were
they no longer merely experience who still operates auto stations, time. ings are moving slower,
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