Northeast wind-driven rain blamed for 6 deaths
By The Associated Press
This article was originally published March 14, 2010 at 2:11 p.m. Updated March 14, 2010 at 5:14 p.m.
PHOTO BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
People, left back, stand on the porch of a home Sunday in Atlantic City, N.J., overlooking the debris of a neighbor's house that collapsed in the storm that pounded the region Saturday.
The weekend’s brutal Northeast rainstorm is being blamed for the deaths of at least six people.
Connecticut police say a woman died when a falling tree struck her as she was walking late Saturday in Greenwich (GREN’-ich).
Strong winds and heavy rains uprooted trees, downed power lines and flooded creeks. A half-million utility customers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut lost electricity.
Police say one person was killed in Westport, Conn., when a tree fell on a car.
Authorities in Teaneck, N.J., say two neighbors were killed by a falling tree as they headed home from a prayer service.
In Hartsdale, N.Y., a man died when a tree crushed the roof of his car.
And in Rhode Island, an off-duty state trooper died Sunday after his car hydroplaned in a patch of standing water.
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