Henri hurls rain as storm settles atop swamped Northeast

WESTERLY, R.I. – The slow-rolling strategy named Henri is taking its clip drenching the Northeast with rain, lingering aboriginal Monday atop a portion made swampy by the storm's relentless downpour.

Henri, which made landfall arsenic a tropical tempest Sunday day successful Rhode Island, has moved northwest done Connecticut. It hurled rainfall westward acold earlier its arrival, flooding areas arsenic acold southwest arsenic New Jersey earlier pelting northeast Pennsylvania, adjacent arsenic it took connected tropical slump status.

Over 140,000 homes mislaid power, and deluges of rainfall closed bridges, swamped roads and near immoderate radical stranded successful their vehicles.

Beach towns from the Hamptons connected Long Island to Cape Cod successful Massachusetts exhaled from being spared the worst of the imaginable harm Sunday. Other areas of New England awaited the storm's return.

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The National Hurricane Center said Henri is expected to dilatory down further and apt stall adjacent the Connecticut-New York authorities line, earlier moving backmost eastbound done New England and yet pushing retired to the Atlantic Ocean.

Henri could nutrient 3 to 6 inches (8 to 15 centimeters) of rainfall implicit portions of Long Island, New England, southeast New York, New Jersey, and northeast Pennsylvania done Monday, the bureau projects. Parts of bluish New Jersey into confederate New York could spot up to a ft of rain, starring to sizeable flash flooding, it said.

New England officials fretted that conscionable a fewer much inches of precipitation would beryllium a backmost breaker pursuing a summertime of grounds rainfall.

“The crushed is truthful saturated that it tin flood with conscionable different inch of rain,” Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont warned precocious Sunday.

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In the cardinal New Jersey assemblage of Helmetta, immoderate 200 residents fled for higher ground, taking refuge successful hotels oregon with friends and family, arsenic flood waters inundated their homes Sunday.

“It came truthful speedy — successful the blink of an eye,” said the town’s mayor, Christopher Slavicek, whose parents were spending the nighttime aft fleeing their home. “Now there’s cleanable up. So this is acold from over.”

President Joe Biden has declared disasters successful Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, opening the purse strings for national betterment assistance to those states.

“We’re doing everything we tin present to assistance those states prepare, respond and recover,” said the president, who besides offered condolences Sunday to Tennessee residents, aft severe flooding from an unrelated storm killed astatine slightest 22 radical and near dozens missing.

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When Henri made landfall adjacent Westerly, Rhode Island, it had sustained winds of astir 60 mph (97 kph) and gusts of up to 70 mph (110 kph).

Some communities successful cardinal New Jersey were inundated with arsenic overmuch arsenic 8 inches (20 centimeters) of rainfall by midday Sunday. In Jamesburg, tv video footage showed flooded downtown streets and cars astir wholly submerged. In Newark, Public Safety Director Brian O’Hara said constabulary and firefighters rescued 86 radical successful 11 incidents related to the storm.

In Connecticut, astir 250 residents from 4 nursing homes connected the shoreline had to beryllium relocated to different facilities. Several large bridges successful Rhode Island were concisely shuttered Sunday, and immoderate coastal roads were astir impassable.

Other communities awaited for sunrise to survey the harm already wrought.

Linda Orlomoski, of Canterbury, Connecticut, was among those without powerfulness precocious into Sunday.

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“It’s expected to get nasty blistery and humid again connected Tuesday,” she said. “If we inactive person nary powerfulness by then, that volition beryllium miserable.”

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Kunzelman reported from Newport, Rhode Island. Porter reported from New York. Associated Press writers William J. Kole successful Warwick, Rhode Island, Michelle Smith successful Providence, Rhode Island, Michael R. Sisak and Julie Walker from East Hampton, Will Lester successful Washington, Philip Marcelo successful Boston, Michael Melia successful Hartford, Connecticut, Susan Haigh successful Norwich, Connecticut, and Bobby Caina Calvan successful New York contributed to this report.

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