BOSTON: A nor’easter pounded the Atlantic coast with hurricane-force winds and sideways rain and snow Friday, flooding streets, grounding flights, stopping trains and leaving 1.6 million consumers without power from North Carolina to Maine. At least 5 people have been killed by means of falling trees or branches.
The storm submerged cars and toppled tractor-trailers, despatched waves higher than a two-story space crashing into the Massachusetts coast, pressured faculties and businesses to near early and caused a rough ride for passengers aboard a flight that landed at Dulles Airport out of doors Washington.
“Pretty much everybody at the airplane threw up,” a pilot wrote in a report to the National Weather Service.
The Eastern Seaboard used to be hammered by means of gusts exceeding 50 mph, with winds of 80 to 90 mph on Cape Cod. Ohio and upstate New York got a foot or extra of snow. Boston and Rhode Island have been anticipated to get 2 to five inches.
The storm killed no less than 5 people, including a 77-year-old woman struck by means of a department out of doors her home near Baltimore. Fallen trees additionally killed a man and a 6-year-old boy in several parts of Virginia, an 11-year-old boy in New York state and a man in Newport, Rhode Island.
Floodwaters in Quincy, Massachusetts, submerged cars, and police rescued people trapped in their automobiles. High waves battered within reach Scituate, making roads impassable and turning parking a lot into small ponds. More than 1,800 people alerted Scituate officials that they had evacuated, The Boston Globe reported.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker activated 200 National Guard members to help victims.
Airlines canceled greater than 2,800 flights, most commonly within the Northeast. LaGuardia and Kennedy airports in New York City have been dropped at a near standstill.
President Donald Trump, who traveled to North Carolina for the funeral for the Rev. Billy Graham, used to be pressured to fly out of Dulles instead of Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, where Air Force One is housed, as a result of high winds.
Amtrak suspended provider along the Northeast Corridor, from Washington to Boston. In New Jersey, a tree hit overhead wires, forcing the suspension of a few New Jersey Transit commuter provider.
Winds toppled a truck on Rhode Island’s Newport Pell Bridge and brought on officials to near several bridges within the state to industrial automobiles. A tractor-trailer additionally tipped over on New York’s Tappan Zee Bridge, snarling site visitors for hours.
The federal government closed all places of work within the Washington area for the day. Smithsonian museums additionally shut their doorways.
In the western New York the city of Hornell, 30-year-old Anna Stewart used to be milking the 130 cows of her dairy farm in a barn powered by means of a generator hooked as much as a tractor. Stewart lost power Thursday night time. Hornell got greater than 14 inches of snow.
“The snow is pretty rainy and heavy. It’s taken down a large number of strains,” Stewart said. “There’s extra snow than I’ve seen in reasonably a few years.”
On the end of Cape Cod, Provincetown resident Andy Towle took video of a 50-foot fishing boat breaking unfastened from its mooring and drifting dangerously towards the rocks.
“I’ve never seen anything else like that,” the 50-year-old resident said. “The harbormaster used to be down there with police, they usually didn’t know what to do.”
The storm submerged cars and toppled tractor-trailers, despatched waves higher than a two-story space crashing into the Massachusetts coast, pressured faculties and businesses to near early and caused a rough ride for passengers aboard a flight that landed at Dulles Airport out of doors Washington.
“Pretty much everybody at the airplane threw up,” a pilot wrote in a report to the National Weather Service.
The Eastern Seaboard used to be hammered by means of gusts exceeding 50 mph, with winds of 80 to 90 mph on Cape Cod. Ohio and upstate New York got a foot or extra of snow. Boston and Rhode Island have been anticipated to get 2 to five inches.
The storm killed no less than 5 people, including a 77-year-old woman struck by means of a department out of doors her home near Baltimore. Fallen trees additionally killed a man and a 6-year-old boy in several parts of Virginia, an 11-year-old boy in New York state and a man in Newport, Rhode Island.
Floodwaters in Quincy, Massachusetts, submerged cars, and police rescued people trapped in their automobiles. High waves battered within reach Scituate, making roads impassable and turning parking a lot into small ponds. More than 1,800 people alerted Scituate officials that they had evacuated, The Boston Globe reported.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker activated 200 National Guard members to help victims.
Airlines canceled greater than 2,800 flights, most commonly within the Northeast. LaGuardia and Kennedy airports in New York City have been dropped at a near standstill.
President Donald Trump, who traveled to North Carolina for the funeral for the Rev. Billy Graham, used to be pressured to fly out of Dulles instead of Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, where Air Force One is housed, as a result of high winds.
Amtrak suspended provider along the Northeast Corridor, from Washington to Boston. In New Jersey, a tree hit overhead wires, forcing the suspension of a few New Jersey Transit commuter provider.
Winds toppled a truck on Rhode Island’s Newport Pell Bridge and brought on officials to near several bridges within the state to industrial automobiles. A tractor-trailer additionally tipped over on New York’s Tappan Zee Bridge, snarling site visitors for hours.
The federal government closed all places of work within the Washington area for the day. Smithsonian museums additionally shut their doorways.
In the western New York the city of Hornell, 30-year-old Anna Stewart used to be milking the 130 cows of her dairy farm in a barn powered by means of a generator hooked as much as a tractor. Stewart lost power Thursday night time. Hornell got greater than 14 inches of snow.
“The snow is pretty rainy and heavy. It’s taken down a large number of strains,” Stewart said. “There’s extra snow than I’ve seen in reasonably a few years.”
On the end of Cape Cod, Provincetown resident Andy Towle took video of a 50-foot fishing boat breaking unfastened from its mooring and drifting dangerously towards the rocks.
“I’ve never seen anything else like that,” the 50-year-old resident said. “The harbormaster used to be down there with police, they usually didn’t know what to do.”
Nor’easter hits East Coast; flights, trains affected
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