Violent noreaster hammers NYC and surrounding region, leaving one dead in carnage
A violent nor’easter pummeled New York City and the region Saturday, bringing drenching rain and powerful winds — and toppling a tree that fatally struck a Brooklyn man.The 56-year-old suffered “trauma throughout his body” when gusts that reached 45 mph downed the tree on Euclid Avenue in East New York around 3:30 p.m., police said.The unidentified man was rushed to Brookdale Hospital where he was pronounced dead shortly after 5 p.m.The storm, which began pounding the metro area late Friday, is expected to dump up to 8 inches of rain by the time it moves offshore Monday.The downpours and violent gusts, which could reach 80 mph in some parts of the Northeast, were to come in waves, with lulls in between.“Mark my words, much more is coming,” Gov.Kathy Hochul said at a press conference Saturday morning.She declared emergencies in NYC, Westchester and all of Long Island.“With tonight’s full moon the tides may even be higher.
We expect waves of 20 feet in some areas,” said Hochul.Coastal areas in Queens, Staten Island, Long Island and the Jersey Shore were inundated as the torrents combined with high tides.Follow live updates on the powerful nor’easter set to bring dangerous winds, flooding to the East CoastQueens was slammed, with kayakers taking to the roads in Howard Beach and an Uber driver scooping water out of his drowned car on Almeda Avenue in Far Rockaway.Two cops were injured on the Jackie Robinson Parkway in Glendale after violent winds toppled a tree and lightpole.As they waited for utility crews to arrive, a Nissan SUV slammed into their idling patrol car.
The officers were taken to the hospital in stable condition and the SUV’s 60-year-old driver was treated at the scene.Downed trees and power lines left at least 100,000 homes in the dark along the Atlantic Coast, with nearly 30,000 customers in New Jersey, and 20,000 in New York, without power as of 7 a.m.Saturday.
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