The storm is expected to bring heavy rain and possible flooding to cities and towns across the region, including in New York City, the Hudson Valley area, northern New Jersey and the Connecticut coast. Hirsch said, before adding, “This one’s running on a scarier pattern.” “It’s not our first time at the dance here with stuff like this,” Mr. Scott Hirsch, the longtime owner of the Island Mermaid in Ocean Beach, a section of Fire Island, said the restaurant began to shut down early Saturday. Bellone said, Long Island saw more than 600,000 power outages - and that storm did not make a direct hit. When Tropical Storm Isaias tore through the region last summer, Mr. “God forbid it does get bad, even if it is a Category 1, and your house is there.” He was most concerned as to whether the extensive sand berms and dunes built by the Army Corps of Engineers to shore up the island after Hurricane Sandy would hold. “I feel like people need to relax a little.” I am from Puerto Rico, I grew up with hurricanes, my island got hit by hurricane Maria and this is a Category 1,” the lowest level storm, he said.
Pabon was taking precautions closing his shop and heading to Manhattan, but he felt that the response was overblown.
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The ferries had been full since early morning, he said. on Saturday and that there would be no service on Sunday, when Henri is expected to make landfall as a Category 1 storm.īy 6 p.m., Edwin Pabon, 51, a barber and a partner at Handsome, a barbershop in The Pines section of the island, was on a packed ferry on his way home to Manhattan.
Bellone said that ferry travel off the island was scheduled to end at 10:40 p.m. “If they do not leave the island today, they will be stuck,” warned Steven Bellone, the county executive. With Hurricane Henri fast approaching on Saturday afternoon, Suffolk County officials called on visitors and residents of Fire Island, which lies on the southern shore of Long Island, to voluntarily evacuate before landfall. Go here for the latest on deadly flooding in New York. They cut short a bachelorette party weekend on Fire Island because of the storm. Kristen Pavese, center, and her bridesmaids after departing a ferry in Bay Shore, N.Y., on Saturday. In the New York City region, rain is expected to continue until Monday morning. Over five inches were recorded in Clifton, N.J., and in Prospect Park in Brooklyn, and over four inches fell on Danbury, Conn. As of Sunday morning, the heaviest rains from the storm had fallen on New York City, northern New Jersey and parts of Connecticut. The storm is expected to slow and possibly stall near the Connecticut-New York border on Sunday night before moving across northern Connecticut and southern Massachusetts on Monday, the hurricane center said.įlash flooding was reported Saturday night and Sunday morning in more than a dozen spots across New York and New Jersey. After Henri hits land, it is expected to head toward the north and weaken rapidly. Sustained winds of over 50 miles an hour have already been reported in coastal Rhode Island. If the peak surge occurs around the time of high tide, flooding of two to four feet is possible in those areas.
Storm surge warnings were in effect on the coasts of the Atlantic Ocean and Long Island Sound from Queens in New York City out to the tip of Long Island, and all along the New England coast from Connecticut to the base of Cape Cod. It was headed north-northwest at 12 miles an hour and was expected to make landfall in Rhode Island by early afternoon, the hurricane center reported. Eastern time, Henri, which was downgraded from a hurricane Sunday morning, was about 50 miles south-southwest of Providence, R.I., and 15 miles east of Montauk at the tip of Long Island. The Northeast braced Sunday morning for the arrival of Tropical Storm Henri, packing winds of 60 miles an hour as it headed toward shore, according to the National Hurricane Center.Īt 11 a.m. Henri is expected to make landfall in Rhode Island on Sunday afternoon.
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