Deadly Nor'easter To Slowly Move Away After Trashing Eastern U.S.

Beleaguered Quincy, Massachusetts on Friday. Photo
by Greg Higins, Quincy Patriot Ledger

It's still cloudy and windy across most of the Northeast this morning, but in most locations, the worst of the storm is over.

The exception is coastal New England, where another punishing, near-record storm surge will hit later this morning.

Note there are some wild storm videos to watch at the bottom of this post.

The storm has killed at least seven people, and that toll might go up. Most of the deaths involved trees falling on houses and cars.

About 2.5 million people lost power across the East.  The stats, as I noted last night, are incredible. There was a wind gust of 93 mph in Barnstable, Massachusetts, with several other gusts in the 85 to 90 mph range along the southeast Massachusetts coast.

I suspect those are, or close to the strongest wind gusts on record in southern New England not associated with a hurricane, tornado, or localized thunderstorm microburst

The most snow from this storm fell near, and south and west of Albany, New York. Cobleskill, New York picked up a wild 39.3 inches of snow.

Storm surge floods into Boston Friday from Boston Harbor
Click on the photo to make it bigger and easier to see. The
sign in the background reads "Global Climate Change
and Boston Harbor"

Far southern Vermont barely got clipped by the heavy snow. Woodford reported 14 inches of new snow.

This was the type of storm that should come through rarely - perhaps once every several decades. It's a bit disconcerting that there were two nor'easter with record or near record storm surges in New England in less than two months.

I imagine some people whose houses keep getting flooded in places like Scituate, Plymouth and Marshfield, Massachusetts are reconsidering where they live.

There's no rest for the weary. Another nor'easter looks like it will affect New England later next week. It won't nearly be as strong as the one that is now departing. However, given the damage to the coastline, even a small nor'easter will just make things that much worse.

Here are some videos:

It's a wonder these oceanfront homes in Scituate held up as much as they did:



Here's what Winthrop, Massachusetts looked like Friday:

 

Lots of tree damage around Bronxville, New York