While flooding from high tides and a significant rainfall isn’t unexpected on Long Beach Island, the near standstill traffic jams and number of disabled vehicles that resulted from early morning storms on Monday, Aug. 22 in Ship Bottom and Surf City were.

A confluence of conditions – a Monday morning, near-summer’s-end high tide and the first significant rainfall in more than a month – seemed to stall over Surf City. As of 1 p.m. Aug.