NEW YORK: Henri tropical storm crashed into Rhode Island on the US east coast on Sunday, knocking down the electricity pole to thousands of Americans, overthrowing trees and carrying a record of rainfall before weakening while moving across New England.
Hurricane – previously derived from category 1 storm – hit the land near the western city around 12:15 (1615 GMT), said National Weather Service.
Henri is a rare tropical storm to attack the northeastern coast of America and comes as a surface layer of the ocean warmness due to climate change.
Heating which causes cyclones to become stronger and bring more water, posing an increase threat to coastal communities in the world, scientists say.
Millions of residents in New England and New York Long Island have been told to prepare strong winds, days without electricity and storm up to five feet.
The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Henri brought a maximum sustainable gusts of 60 mph, lower than 75 mph gusts predicted earlier.
Rhode Island Governor and McKee said there was a “significant flood” in the regions.
There are no immediate reports of victims.
In mid afternoon NHC had raised all wave warnings and initial reports from residents showing the storm was not as bad as the projection was afraid even though in the groton, the falling tree Connecticut threatened several houses.
“We avoided bullets,” James Kiker, from Newport, Rhode Island, told AFP, said he only saw “minimal damage” in his area, including a little damaged branches.
Residents in Long Island, a luxurious house of Hamptons Village where New York rich people resigned in the summer, expressed relieved that the storm road had surrounded the east of them.
“I will continue to live a warning as still a lot of wind, rain and wavy sea await us but I breathe a little easier,” Amy Pedatella, a 46-year-old property manager who spent Saturday securing a beach house in Hamptons, said AFP.
In Newark, New Jersey, flash floods caused by emergency services saving 86 people, including 16 children, from submerged vehicles.
In Helmetta, 30 miles south, volunteer firefighters naved in-depth waist water for residents of the evacuation assistance from waterlines rose almost to their homes.
Some 79,000 people lost power in Rhode Island and another 33,000 blackouts suffered in Connecticut, according to PowerOutage.us tracking sites.
More than 200 flights were canceled at Newark Airport while New York Airport Laguardia and JFK were canceled almost 200 among them, they said.
President Joe Biden ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to coordinate disaster relief efforts at Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York, where Governor Andrew Cuomo was deployed by 500 National Guard troops.
“We do everything we can now to help countries prepare, respond and restore,” he told reporters.
NHC said in 5:00 advisors that the wind had diminished to 40 mph and “weakening additional” from the storm was estimated to be scale to tropical depression at night.
Henri was answered by New York City by a few miles but still due to the condition of the tropical storm overnight and throughout the week, where the flash flood warnings were valid until 17:45.
Rain on Saturday forced New York to stop the Central Park concert studdedly billed as “homecoming” for a hard metropolis hit by a pandemic.
Cutting an announcer off the legend of Pop Barry Manilow mid-song to urge it to rejoice to continue quickly but calmly to the closest exit.
The National Weather Service said 1.94 inches of rain dropped in Taman 22: 00-11: 00 Saturday, the clums on the record in the city of eight million people.
At that time the blow came out, Henri was expected to have produced three to six inches of rain (7.5-15 cm) in all regions, with a total maximum isolated near 12 inches, NHC said.
Before the downgrade, Henri was determined to be the first storm to hit New England in 30 years.
Bob storm in 1991 killed at least 17 people.
Warning also ignites Hurricane Sandy’s memories, stronger storms that decide on electricity for many Manhattan and flood the subway in 2012.
Rare tropical storms of the United States Northeast
