More than 1 million power outages in the Northeast after blockbuster fall storm [View all]
Source: Washington Post
One of the strongest October storms in recent memory exploded off the Mid-Atlantic coast Sunday night before tearing through the Northeastern United States. The storm unleashed damaging winds and pockets of flooding rain.
Tropical storm-force wind gusts rattled the Mid-Atlantic while some hurricane-force gusts battered coastal New England, the hardest-hit area. One location in eastern Massachusetts clocked a gust at 93 mph.
More than 1.3 million customers lost power, mostly in New England, the most since Hurricane Sandy five years ago. There were 300,000 customers in the dark in Massachusetts and 400,000 in Maine.
The 400,000 power failures in Maine, where winds gusted to 70 mph in spots, represents almost one-third of its population and surpasses the number during its great ice storm in 1998.
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