Authorities confirmed an eighth death in the nor’easter that swept across the US north-east on Friday. A 37-year-old Massachusetts man was killed on Friday afternoon when a tree fell on his pickup truck.
The Plymouth district attorney’s office said Ryan MacDonald, of Plympton, was found trapped in his truck after a large pine tree landed on the roof. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
MacDonald was the first Massachusetts resident confirmed dead in the storm and the third in New England. Authorities reported two more deaths earlier: a 25-year-old man in Connecticut and a 57-year-old man in Pennsylvania died when trees fell on their cars.
The other five people killed included two children. A man and a six-year-old boy were killed in different parts of Virginia while an 11-year-old boy in New York state and a man in Rhode Island both died. A 77-year-old woman died after being struck by a branch outside her home near Baltimore.
Communities along the north-east coast were braced for more flooding during high tides on Saturday, even as the powerful storm that inundated roads, snapped trees and knocked out power to more than 2 million homes and businesses moved hundreds of miles out to sea.
Areas from Maryland to Maine remained under flood warnings. As Saturday’s midday high tide arrived, heavy surf crashed into the cliffs along Cape Cod Bay in Bourne, Massachusetts, drawing dozens of onlookers to watch churning brown waves take big bites out of the eroding coastline.
“We’ve been here a long time and we’ve never seen it as bad as this,” said Alex Barmashi, who lives in the hard-hit village of Sagamore Beach. Up the coast in Scituate, Becky Smith watched as ocean waters started to fill up a marina parking lot.
“It looks like a war zone,” she said, describing the scene in the coastal town near Boston where powerful waves dumped sand and rubble on roads and winds uprooted massive trees. “It’s a lot of debris, big rocks and pieces of wood littering the streets.”
The Plymouth district attorney’s office said Ryan MacDonald, of Plympton, was found trapped in his truck after a large pine tree landed on the roof. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
MacDonald was the first Massachusetts resident confirmed dead in the storm and the third in New England. Authorities reported two more deaths earlier: a 25-year-old man in Connecticut and a 57-year-old man in Pennsylvania died when trees fell on their cars.
The other five people killed included two children. A man and a six-year-old boy were killed in different parts of Virginia while an 11-year-old boy in New York state and a man in Rhode Island both died. A 77-year-old woman died after being struck by a branch outside her home near Baltimore.
Communities along the north-east coast were braced for more flooding during high tides on Saturday, even as the powerful storm that inundated roads, snapped trees and knocked out power to more than 2 million homes and businesses moved hundreds of miles out to sea.
Areas from Maryland to Maine remained under flood warnings. As Saturday’s midday high tide arrived, heavy surf crashed into the cliffs along Cape Cod Bay in Bourne, Massachusetts, drawing dozens of onlookers to watch churning brown waves take big bites out of the eroding coastline.
“We’ve been here a long time and we’ve never seen it as bad as this,” said Alex Barmashi, who lives in the hard-hit village of Sagamore Beach. Up the coast in Scituate, Becky Smith watched as ocean waters started to fill up a marina parking lot.
“It looks like a war zone,” she said, describing the scene in the coastal town near Boston where powerful waves dumped sand and rubble on roads and winds uprooted massive trees. “It’s a lot of debris, big rocks and pieces of wood littering the streets.”
Source: theguardian
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