The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season smashed
rainfall totals across the Northeast and pushed some streams and creeks
over their banks but sped up the Eastern Seaboard without causing major
damage.
A weakened Andrea shifted away from New England on
Saturday morning with winds gusting up to 45 mph. The storm was expected
to reach Canadian waters by Sunday.
After bringing rain,Discover suits
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its tropical characteristics late Friday into Saturday. But it brought
record rainfall for the date of June 7 for many cities and towns in the
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Andrea
dumped 6.64 inches of rain on Gales Ferry, Conn. The 4.16 inches that
fell on New York City’s Central Park was more than double the previous
record for the date, set in 1918. The 3.5 inches of rain that fell at
Philadelphia International Airport doubled the 1.79 inches that fell in
1904. Newark, N.J., saw 3.71 inches, breaking the previous mark of 1.11
inches set in 1931.
Elsewhere, cars were submerged in
floodwaters on Long Island, and about 50 residents were displaced by a
rising stream in Chester, Pa. A retaining wall collapsed early Saturday
in Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood,Elegant authenticmonclerjackets
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apartment building and leaving three families homeless. The storm was
blamed for one traffic-related death in Virginia.
Late Friday,
the National Hurricane Center in Miami discontinued all tropical storm
warnings but cautioned about possible coastal and localized flooding
from New Jersey to New England.
Officials in the Mid-Atlantic
region and Northeast had prepared for it Friday night. New York City
activated its flash flooding plan, and heavy rainfall resulted in flash
floods, causing some sections of roadways to be closed throughout Long
Island.
A number of roads were flooded in the Boston area. A
flight that left Boston on Friday night headed to Palm Beach, Fla., was
diverted to Newark Liberty International Airport after being struck by
lightning. No one was injured.
The weather service reported that
small streams and creeks in southeastern Pennsylvania were going over
their banks Friday night. New York City’s airports experienced flight
delays, and Connecticut reported numerous lane closures on highway as
cars spun out amid heavy rain.
The rainy weather washed out
events such as NASCAR’s Sprint Cup qualifying in Pennsylvania’s Poconos
and MLB games in Washington, New York and Boston.
The heavy rain
from the storm’s outer bands was being blamed by authorities in
Virginia for a fatal accident on Interstate 77 in the state’s western
mountains. William Petty, 57, of Lexington, S.C., died after a car in
which he was a passenger hydroplaned while passing a tractor-trailer. He
survived the crash, only to be killed moments later when the car was
struck by a second tractor-trailer, authorities said.
In Chapel
Hill, N.C., heavy rains forced the forced the postponement of Friday’s
NCAA super regional baseball series opener between No. 1 seeded North
Carolina and South Carolina until Saturday. A second game between N.C.
State and Rice in Raleigh was also postponed.
In Florida, the
weather service estimated that feeder bands from Andrea’s remnants
dropped more than 9 inches of rain on eastern Miami-Dade County and more
than 6 inches of rain on eastern Broward County on Friday.
In
Cuba, days of torrential rains associated with Andrea caused rivers to
jump their banks in the western province of Pinar del Rio. More than
3,300 people evacuated endangered homes,welcome to our new store castellicycling.
and nearly 10,000 acres (4,000 hectares) of croplands suffered “serious
damage,” state-run newspaper Juventud Rebelde said Friday.Big halterweddingdresses
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Rain was forecast to continue falling on already waterlogged areas
through Saturday.
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