No deaths have been attributed to Henri, but thousands remained without power across the region as crews scrambled to remove toppled trees and power lines through Monday. Ned Lamont said Monday after seeing damage in the community of Canterbury, where nearly every home lost power Sunday amid heavy winds. “The ground is so saturated with water that every inch of rain creates immediate floods and flash floods,” Connecticut Gov. “This has been a 24-hour period, so it’s not really the same storm, thank goodness.”īut downpours, flooding and even tornadoes were still possible in New England, where officials fretted that just a few more inches would be a back-breaker following a summer of record rainfall. “I think we escaped any kind of danger so far only because of the length of time it took for the storm to move through,” he said. In the Catskills region of New York, Hunter Town Supervisor Daryl Legg believed his mountain community, which was devastated by Tropical Storm Irene in 2011, would be able to weather the slow-moving storm. On Monday, Henri's remnants, now considered a post-tropical cyclone, were moving eastward over New England at a leisurely 9 mph but were expected to accelerate later, prompting flood watches or warnings across swaths of the Northeast. But its size and slow speed led to deluges in areas from Maine to Pennsylvania. Henri spared coastal areas of New York and New England major damage when its center made landfall Sunday in Rhode Island. Phil Murphy toured the storm-ravaged towns Monday, which remained under a flood warning until midnight. “We were initially hoping to be back open by Labor Day, but now it looks like we’ve got to go through all the plumbing and rip out a ton of electrical because we don’t know how much of that was affected,” he said. Luke Becker, who operates the Four Boys ice cream stand along with his three brothers - one of six the family owns - said nearly 4 feet of water rushed into the shop, dislodging a tall cooler and leaving 3 inches of mud behind. A few miles away from Monroe, the whirring of portable pumps split the air on the main street in Jamesburg, another hard-hit New Jersey community.
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