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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