WINDSOR, N.C. (AP)– At least 7 individuals were killed as Hurricane Isaias battered the U.S. East Coast with rain and intense winds after making landfall as a cyclone in North Carolina. Millions of people were without power on Wednesday after felled trees downed power lines.
The noise of generators and chainsaws stressed the dawn in New Jersey, where more than 1 million houses and companies lacked electrical energy. NJ Transit train service stayed suspended while teams cleared about 150 trees and repair signals and overhead wires.
Regional rail service was likewise suspended in Philadelphia after Isaias raised the Schuylkill River and sent out an unsecured building barge into a bridge. Inspectors were looking for damage. Interstate 676, which crosses the bridge, was also closed in both instructions.
Patrick Foye, chairman of New york city’s Metropolitan Transport Authority, stated more than 2,000 trees fell throughout the system’s train and bus network.
” This storm triggered serious damage,” Foye said Wednesday. “Not since Superstorm Sandy has our system experienced this kind of wind.”
2 people passed away when Isaias spun off a twister that struck a North Carolina mobile house park. Another person died in Pennsylvania when their car was overtaken by water and swept downstream. Thre