The Weather Channel said tropical storm warnings are in effect from the coast of Long Island from Fire Island Inlet to Port Jefferson Harbor, New Haven, Conn., to Sagamore Beach, Mass., Block Island (R.I.), and for the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.
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Hermine, which came ashore in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane, has now been downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone by the National Hurricane Center but that does not mean electric utilities in the Northeast are in the clear.
“It may not be swimming weather, but it’s been lovely”, Margee Germaine said, despite overcast skies and heavy surf.
Anthem of the seas recording gusts of 90 knot winds. “I do expect some wind around tomorrow morning before this whole thing gets out of here by Thursday”.
Mahabub Khan, a cart peddler who works the Jersey Shore, said the crowds were noticeably smaller this year after Hermine warnings reached the hurricane level.
“People knew that it was going to hit here so they changed their plans and it doesn’t seem like it’s been as busy this weekend as normal”, server Kenn Hendricks said.
Many passengers were feeling sick from the rough weather. They even braved the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel on Saturday as the wind whipped their auto and the bay rose close to the bridge’s bottom. Gov. Chris Christie warned that minor to moderate flooding was still likely in coastal areas and said the storm will cause major problems, even as it tracks eastward into the Atlantic.
The city’s shores were closed to swimmers and surfers for the second day in a row because of strong rip tides and waves caused by the tropical storm, nixing any chance of a final dip in the ocean before the summer season ended.
“It was a little overhyped by the media”, said Andrew Thulin, assistant general manager of Daddy O Hotel Restaurant in the New Jersey township of Long Beach.
“My No. 1 concern is the risky rip currents we are going to experience”, the mayor said in a statement. “Even though the forecast has improved, the waters will still be extremely unsafe”.
The tropical storm conditions that were originally predicted through Wednesday are no longer in the forecast for most of the Island.
States along the East Coast had already made emergency preparations.
Tri-state residents should be aware that it will take a few days for all flood waters to recede, as the storms is not set to pull away until at least Tuesday night.
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Scott said that the government was working to restore electricity at the earliest. Officials say Woodrum died at a hospital on Saturday.
