Record snow, flood warnings as storm hits Northeast

TODAY's Al Roker reports from Connecticut where a nor'easter barreled through the Northeast region already ravaged by Superstorm Sandy, bringing pounding surf and heavy wet snow and rain.

By Ian Johnston, NBC News

A winter storm battered the Northeast on Thursday, cutting power to at least 115,000 homes and dumping record snow in the New York City area.

And the storm wasn't done yet: The National Weather Service warned of wind gusts as high as 60 mph along the coast, ?minor to moderate? flooding from storm surges, and more snow, particularly in New England, early Thursday.

More than 600,000 people were without electricity as a result of superstorm Sandy and the new storm, which was blamed for at least 115,000 of those outages.?Roughly 60,000 came after customers had just had their power restored, NBCNewYork.com said.

Record snowfall totals were recorded across the area:

• New York?s Central Park saw 2.8 inches on Wednesday, which the NWS said beat the previous record of 0.1 inches in 1878. Total snowfall in Central Park from the storm is now at 4.7 inches.
• A record snowfall of 2 inches was set at Newark, N.J., breaking the old record of a trace amount set in 1981.
• And Bridgeport, Conn., received 3.5 inches of snow, beating the record of 2 inches set in 1953.

Throughout the Tri-state area, people wore coats indoors as they endured yet another night without heat. Some of those who had weathered Sandy told NBCNewYork.com they felt like a cruel joke was being played on them.

"Kind of laughing about it at this point," said Danny Arnedos, of Oyster Bay, Long Island. "To go from a hurricane to a nor'easter and driving in the snow in 10 days is pretty unbelievable."

Others are fed up.

"It's like a sequel to a horror movie," said James Alexander, a resident of the hard-hit Rockaway Peninsula. "Here we are, nine days later ? freezing, no electricity, no nothing, waiting for another storm."

Alexander's home was spared when Sandy hit, but homes around him burned to the ground, and the boardwalk near his home was washed out to sea. "They said it would be a rough winter," he noted to NBC New York.

The NWS forecast that the storm was expected to bring ?rain and snow along with gusty winds? to coastal areas of the Northeast in a notice that was valid until Saturday.

?The snow should have moved off the mid-Atlantic coast on Thursday morning, but should continue in interior New England. The low is not expected to move out of the region in a hurry and coastal New England should see rain changing to snow before tapering off in the latter half of Thursday,? it added.

In Toms River, N.J., residents of nearby barrier island communities lashed out at the city council because they had not been allowed to return to their homes since before Sandy hit.

Speaking at a city council meeting, one resident said: "These people need to understand it's our island, it's our home, and we need to defend it like it's a castle."

Just 10 days after Hurricane Sandy knocked out power to thousands of Northeast residents, a powerful nor'easter plunged many homes back into darkness. NBC's Erica Hill reports.

Official: NY disaster chief fired over tree removal
?Are you left in the lurch after Sandy??
PhotoBlog: Snow adds to Sandy misery?
Full NBC coverage of Sandy's aftermath?

NBCNewYork.com contributed to this report.

More content from NBCNews.com:

Follow US news from NBCNews.com on Twitter and Facebook

?

Source: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/08/15016190-record-snowfalls-new-power-outages-flood-warnings-as-storm-slams-northeast?lite

hunger games movie review bats hunger games review jeff saturday jason smith jon corzine austin rivers