7 Dead After “Monster Nor’easter” Pummels East Coast, Leaving Floods, Outages

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

At least seven people were dead after a “monster nor’easter” – officially called Winter Storm Riley – slammed the northeastern United States on Saturday, leaving a trail of flooded streets, power outages and brutal winds. 

A 6-year-old boy died in Virginia after a tree fell on his family’s home, officials said. Others include an 11-year-old boy hit by a falling tree in New York state, a 57-year-old man in Upper Merion, Pennsylvania, hit by a tree while in his car and a 77-year-old woman struck by a branch outside her home in Baltimore.

The Tewksbury Police posted this photo to their Twitter account of a tree severely damaging a jeep, March 2

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. It was the second “bomb cyclone,” to hit the region after a similar storm hit the northeast back in early January. home in Baltimore.

ubble rests on top of a car after a partially burnt building collapsed due to strong winds in Northeast Washington

According to Reuters, almost 2.4 million homes and businesses had no power in the Northeast and Midwest early on Saturday. Some utility companies warned customers that power might not be restored until later in the day or Sunday.

Wind knocks down power poles onto Arsenal Street in Watertown, Mass., March 2

New York City saw a mix of rain, snow, sleet and winds that wrapped up by evening. Over 4 inches of rain fell in eastern Long Island and parts of eastern Massachusetts.

Lighthouse Rd. begins to flood during a large coastal storm March 2, 2018 in Scituate, Mass

A tractor-trailer overturned on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York, photos showed.

In Boston and nearby coastal communities, storm surges and high tides sent seawater in the streets, the second floods there this year.

A National Guard vehicle brings emergency workers to residents trapped by flood waters due to a strong coastal storm on March 2, 2018 in Quincy, Massachusetts

Wind gusts of more than 90 miles per hour downed trees and power lines a day earlier. The highest wind gust was 93 mph in Barnstable, Massachuetts, while an 83 mph gust was measured in both East Falmouth, Massachusetts, and Little Compton, Rhode Island. Hurricane-force wind gusts will continue through coastal Massachusetts and Rhode Island Friday night.

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and Maryland Governor Larry Hogan declared a states of emergency.  “Please use common sense, heed all warnings, and stay inside and off the roads if possible,” Hogan said in a statement.

Heavy snow fell across much of the interior northeast Friday afternoon, including in Syracuse and Albany, New York; New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania.

https://twitter.com/Amanda__Maile/status/969655769917509632

Sussex County, New Jersey, has already seen 10 inches of snow by the afternoon. According to AccuWeather, the storm dumped as much as 18 inches (46 cm) of snow on parts of New York state and Pennsylvania. In Pennsylvania, a school bus was toppled over by high winds. No students were on board, and the driver’s injuries were minor.

Amtrak temporarily suspended service along the Northeast corridor until Saturday due to what it termed were “hazardous conditions for our customers and crews.” They announced around midnight Saturday that modified service would resume between Washington, D.C. and New York City at 6:20 a.m. and between New York City and Boston at 8:40 a.m.

Over 4,000 flights were canceled in the United States Friday, according to FlightAware. Nearly half of all scheduled flights at New York City’s LaGuardia Airport have been canceled today, the airport said. LaGuardia, Logan International in Boston and Newark Liberty International in New Jersey were the top-3 airports for cancelled flights on Friday.

One flight landing at Washington’s Dulles International Airport came in through turbulence so rough that most passengers became sick and the pilots were on the verge of becoming ill, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

And while the snow and rain will taper off as skies clear, but winds gusts of up to 50 miles per hour (80 kph) will persist through the day across the region, the National Weather Service said.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-03/7-dead-after-monster-noreaster-pummels-east-coast-leaving-floods-outages

4 thoughts on “7 Dead After “Monster Nor’easter” Pummels East Coast, Leaving Floods, Outages”

  1. “Hurricane-force wind gusts will continue through coastal Massachusetts and Rhode Island Friday night.”

    HAARP induced?

    Hope you’re doin’ okay, Angel.

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  2. Three feet of snow 100 miles West of the Massachusetts state line….in New York …Poconos Mountains (?) and gusts exceeding 90 mph on Cape Cod…..mostly rain Eastern Maine , Massachusetts, R.I. though…but WOW it would have been a blizzard like no other if it had been 18 hours earlier, 8 ° f colder and the center of low pressure 50 miles further west closer to the coast line. A total disaster ….the likes of no other for the Boston area for sure…. averted…this time.

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