More than 1.5 million customers remained without power throughout the northeastern United States early on Sunday, and communities on the New England coast faced more flooding two days after a powerful storm snapped trees, downed wires, and killed at least nine people.
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Further, the winds impacted the power supply across various Atlantic cities including 2.1 million homes and business centres from North Carolina to Maine. “This is a multi-day restoration event”.
According to the NBC broadcaster, three more people were killed in the states of Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. Power outages on the East Coast dipped by about 500,000 from a peak of 2 million earlier Saturday, but officials said lingering wind gusts were slowing fix efforts. “Coastal New Jersey, Long Island, and coastal MA are at risk of moderate flooding”, she continued. The storm strengthened rapidly Friday, undergoing what’s known as bombogenesis or “bombing out”, when a low-pressure system drops 24 millibars in 24 hours.
Authorities in Minnesota, where Minneapolis was expected to get as much as 6 inches of new snow, issued a no travel advisory in southwestern parts of the state because of limited visibility from blizzard conditions.
In Washington, D.C., winds reached 71 miles per hour at Dulles Airport and 62 miles per hour at Reagan International Airport.
More than 387,000 people were still without power in MA, according to the state’s Emergency Management Agency, after initial reports of 450,000 without electricity. Two people died in Virginia, one in Maryland, one in MA, one in NY, one in New Jersey and one in Rhode Island.
On Saturday, Plympton Police Department confirmed 36-year-old Ryan MacDonald, of Plympton, Massachusetts, was killed at approximately 5:15 p.m. ET on Friday after a tree fell on his vehicle. A responding deputy tried to free the boy, whose mother was taken to hospital. A 77-year-old woman died after being struck by a branch outside her home near Baltimore. The boy was rushed to hospital, but his mother told the station his organs were failing. “It doesn’t mean we’re going to get six inches”.
Up and down the East Coast, trees are being uprooted, often onto cars and houses.
Creighton’s son, who was in the back seat, was not injured, she said.
High tides powered coastal flooding in major cities including Boston, leaving streets awash for the second time since a massive nor’easter in early January.
“Massachusetts has experienced a destructive storm that brought significant impacts across the state”, Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency Director Kurt Schwartz said in a statement Sunday.
The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency tweeted a message from the agency’s director that warned those who chose not to evacuate: “Areas that receive major coastal flooding will be risky and rescues may not be possible”. “MEMA encourages residents to stay safe as they clean up storm damage, return to flooded homes and begin the recovery process”.
The wind gusts last evening were some of the strongest we have seen in more than a decade!
“It was pretty scary”, said Alyssa Fitzgerald.
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“We should see the writing on the wall”. Stewart lost power the night before. About 18 percent of the carrier’s global operations are being affected by the storm, Feinstein said.
