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Nor easier pummels Northeast with help from Hurricane Wilma
Harsh wiqds remind
Northerners of 1991 s
giant ‘Perfect Storm
Ken (Daguire
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GLOUCESTER, Mass. — A
nor’easter that drew energy
from the remnants of far-off
Hurricane Wilma battered New
England and the mid-Atlantic
states with 20-foot waves and
winds up to 70 mph Tuesday,
brought some inland areas their
first snow of the season and
knocked out power to about
200,000 homes and businesses.
The powerful nor’easter
reminded fishermen of the
deadly “Perfect Storm” of
October 1991.
“It’s pretty nasty,” said John
Yard, who had rented an
apartment a block from the
ocean in Manasquan, N.J.,
three weeks ago — just in time
for flooding caused by eight
straight days of rain earlier this
month. “It’s been hell with all
the flooding and the water out
here. It’s amazing what this
weather is doing.”
Gregory Bull / The Associated Press
A surfer watches a large wave as he walks out on a rock jetty at a city beach in New York on Tuesday.
Large waves pounded the northeast Tuesday, as the remnants of Hurricane Wilma churned offshore.
On Cape Cod, Harwich
Harbormaster Thomas Leach
recorded sustained wind of 56
mph and gust of 70 mph.
The storm was reinforced by
the remnants of Hurricane
Wilma, which was about 400
miles southeast of Boston and
speeding toward the North
Atlantic after battering Florida a
day earlier.
“It’s getting some energy
from Wilma, but it’s its own
separate system,” said Alan
Dunham, a meteorologist with
the National Weather Service in
Taunton. The nor’easter is “a
good storm in its own right.”
Many commercial fishermen
stayed in port, mindful of the
“Perfect Storm,” which inspired
the book and movie of the same
name about a Gloucester fishing
boat that disappeared when a
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nor’easter collided with
Hurricane Grace in the North
Adantic.
“I wouldn’t want to be out
there today — too dangerous,”
fisherman Matt Farrara said as
he made repairs to his boat at
Gloucester. He fished through
the 1991 storm.
In New Jersey, waves up to 20
feet high washed away stretches
of beach at Bay Head, and
howling wind stripped sand off
the shore at Point Pleasant
Beach, piling it 3 feet deep on a
street a block inland.
Dozens of flights were
canceled at Bostons Logan
Airport. In the New York City
area, airports reported flight
delays of as much as 3 1/2
hours.
With the ground already
soggy from one of the rainiest
Octobers on record, the high
winds toppled trees, bringing
down power lines. In
Massachusetts, Rhode Island
and Connecticut, more than
70,000 homes and businesses
lost electricity. That was down
by more than half by Tuesday
evening as winds and rain eased.
Snow fell at higher elevations
from West Virginia, which got
up to 7 inches, to northern
Maine. Nearly a foot fell in far
western Maryland.
The wet, heavy snow brought
down tree limbs and power
lines, blacking out some 76,000
customers in West Virginia,
27,000 in Pennsylvania and
about 13,000 in Maryland.
Two traffic deaths — in
Pennsylvania and Maine —
were blamed on the weather. In
Massachusetts, a Coast Guard
helicopter searched Tuesday
night for a man reported
missing after he went body
surfing in storm-churned water
off Plymouth.
Atop New Hampshire’s
Mount Washington, the
Northeast’s tallest peak at 6,288
feet, the Mount Washington
Observatory measured 100
mph wind and near-blizzard
conditions in fog and blowing
snow.
“It’s going pretty crazy out
here,” said Tim Markle, the
observatory’s chief
meteorologist.
AP reporters Wayne Parry in
Manasquan, N.J.; Vicki Smith
in Morgantown, W.Va.; Matt
Pitta on Cape Cod, Theo Emery
in Concord and Brooke Donald
in Boston contributed to this
report.
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