New Jersey's state climatologist is calling this the storm that won't stop with as much as another inch of rain expected to fall by the end of today the remnants of tropical storm Ophelia now that's far less than the weekend when towns up and down the Garden State Parkway tallied up to five inches of rainfall and wind gusts over 50 miles per hour senior correspondent Joanna gagas has a look at Ophelia's Coastal damage you couldn't have scripted a more miserable weekend the steady rain that drenched the state since Saturday left New Jersey a soggy mess but as tropical storms typically go here Ophelia was well pretty mild-mannered we were very fortunate that Ophelia didn't deliver a very strong blow to to the state you might call Ophelia the storm that nearly wasn't saved for some spotty regions of flooding and wind gusts along the Jersey Shore Ophelia had them moderate flooding along at least Central and South Jersey coast that was the most disruptive part of the storm along the coast it was also the windiest part of the storm we had wind gusts of up to 56 miles an hour on Saturday overall we probably did a little bit over three inches of rain winds we've seen gusts up to 55 60 miles an hour gusts we experienced the a lot of wave action which in turn equates the beach erosion so Atlantic City suffered a moderate degree of beach erosion in the northern section of the city New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection is dispatching teams today to determine how bad the beach erosion was around the State this weekend Atlantic City's Emergency Management coordinator fire chief Scott Evans says their biggest impact from the storm was flooding we seen a moderate level of flooding effect over 6 neighborhoods in Atlantic City we we experienced Major Street closings and on a Saturday night in Atlantic City when we're closing some some major arteries it creates an additional Hazard or problems if you will for for traffic other more Northern coastal towns saw similar flooding like Avalon and Manasquan there was a little bit of flooding I saw around the Barrier Island and also in the mainland some parts of Somers Point were flooded but compared to other storms this this storm wasn't this storm wasn't bad at all some regions of Monmouth County were affected by power outages mainly caused by heavy tree limbs still Laden with leaves falling on power lines JCP L says they responded to more than 66 thousand outages this weekend as of this afternoon there were still hundreds without power Stafford Township mayor Greg Murr says Ophelia gave his municipality the chance to see some of their flood mitigation efforts actually work despite the high volume that we got it was somewhat refreshing to see that there were not a lot of major emergencies going on or uh talks of flooding cars or flooded basements and all the other kind of terrible things that go along with it so that that would I think is really a testament to the hard work we've done over the past several years efforts like restoring water channels to prevent flooding around the Neptune drainage basin but New Jersey state climatologist Dave Robinson says we're not clear of this storm system yet there's high pressure to our North and that's what slowed the storm that's what created some of the strongest winds and this block remains and that's why the storm can't move north and out to sea that weather system to the north will keep Ophelia hanging around for the next few days so if you're in the coastal regions of New Jersey expect to see sustained winds and even some possible flooding along the Jersey Shore in Atlantic City I'm Joanna gagis and J Spotlight news [Music] [Music]