{"id":31875,"date":"2018-03-03T10:02:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T15:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31875"},"modified":"2018-03-03T10:03:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T15:03:05","slug":"7-dead-after-monster-noreaster-pummels-east-coast-leaving-floods-outages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31875","title":{"rendered":"7 Dead After “Monster Nor’easter” Pummels East Coast, Leaving Floods, Outages"},"content":{"rendered":"
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7 Dead After “Monster Nor’easter” Pummels East Coast, Leaving Floods, Outages<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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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.<\/p>\n

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Spotted by @<\/span>NOAASatellites<\/span><\/a>‘ #<\/span>GOES16<\/span><\/a> satellite: today’s #<\/span>noreaster<\/span><\/a> is seen spinning off the Atlantic Northeast. This storm is slamming the East\u00a0Coast with intense winds, snow, rain and hail. More: https:\/\/www.<\/span>star.nesdis.noaa.gov\/GOES\/GOES16_se<\/span>ctor_band.php?sector=ne&band=GEOCOLOR&length=24\u00a0<\/span>\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

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A 6-year-old boy died in Virginia after a tree fell on his family\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

The Tewksbury Police posted this photo to their Twitter account of a tree severely damaging a jeep, March 2 <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Rubble rests on top of a car after a partially burnt building collapsed due to strong winds in Northeast Washington <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

Wind knocks down power poles onto Arsenal Street in Watertown, Mass., March 2 <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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7 Dead After “Monster Nor’easter” Pummels East Coast, Leaving Floods, Outages 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. NASA \u2714@NASA Spotted by @NOAASatellites‘ #GOES16 satellite: today’s #noreaster […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[288,1001,19054,19055,19056,17025,19057,827,19058,4318],"class_list":["post-31875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-extreme-weather","tag-flooding","tag-nor","tag-noreaster","tag-northeast-united-states","tag-power-outages","tag-storm-damage","tag-united-states","tag-winter-storm-riley","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31877,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31875\/revisions\/31877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}